The first Lufthansa scheduled flight to Fornebu was on 5 November 1966. From time onwards, Lufthansa operated a weekly Saturday CV-440 flight from Hamburg via Gothenburg to Fornebu, and the first arrival was photographed on a rainy opening day. First flight was in 1957, and delivered new to LH as D-ACEX on 18 September 1957. On 31 June 1968 it was sold to Air Algerie as 7T-VAY, and converted to a CV-640 with RR Dart 542 turbo prop engines. April 1982 N849TA for Atlas Aircraft Corp, and a month later to C-GQCY for High Line Airways. To Norcanair in 1988, operated for TimeAir unitl withdrawn from use in March 1993.

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