First delivered to a Western Australian customer in July 1965. Crashed on 26 Aug 1972, but was repaired and restored to the register in March 1973. In September 1974 it was converted to the 115/A1 type with a Lycoming O-320 engine. [#AT112] Photo via Tony Arbon

slide scan from the NK collection. - Finnair operated nine Convair 440s between 1953 and 1980; six came new from Convair's San Diego factory, one was acquired second-hand from Alitalia, and two were transferred from Karair. OH-LRF was built in 1957 and made a winter visit to Munich-Riem in old Finnair colours. Eventually, the airframe was registered as CP-2256 and lost during an emergency landing in Bolivia in September 1993.

Photographer: Barbara Walls

Sold in Australia as VH-EQO

VH-PNA was fitted with JATO and at one stage undercarriage doors. The latter were soon removed because of maintenance problems but the JATO pack remained. It is not recorded if it was used outside testing in 1961.

A84-501 was trucked to Portsea in November 1966 to become a play object for the children at the holiday camp. Exposed to sea spray, the corroding aircraft was later scrapped.

VH-BYJ was withdrawn from use in 1979.