With Namib Air from 1978 to 1988 (photographer not known)

Ex-Avensa Convair 580 YV-53C, (note YV-63 behind), in temporary storage at Miami Intl. in November 1979. Later that month it went to Plymouth Leasing as N4806Q and converted to cargo configuration; re-registered N588PL it operated for a number of US and Canadian carriers and in August 1980, whilst operating for Interstate Airlines, it survived a wheels up landing on a foamed runway at Boston Logan after having an undercarriage problem. In April 1986 it was re-registered C-GNMQ with Nordair Metro returning to the US as N118GT in 1990, and is thought to have been scrapped at Detroit soon after.

ex VH-TAR Trans Australian. Converted by General Dynamics to a 600 series in 1966 (photographer not known)

open-air maintenance at 4000m on this tired looking former REAL/Varig and Iberia Metropolitan (photographer not known)

This aircraft was sold to Bolivia in March 1981 as CP-1674 and it is reported online that on 22nd July 1989, whilst operating for SASA - Servicios Aéreos Santa Ana, it crashed into Chacaltaya Mountain in the Bolivian Andes at Flight Level 150 when descending into La Paz El Alto International Airport in IFR conditions.

ended up with Air Venezuela as YV-974C (photographer not known)

Was impounded at that time. The airframe ended up as Restaurante Los Aviones in Puerto Rico.

(photographer not known)

Under maintenance at the time, this 1954 Convair 580 (ex TAM-73) flew again for the Bolivian Air Force, only to met its demise in a crash 22 February 2005 at Trinidad. The aircraft crash-landed on muddy terrain just after takeoff following engine problems. Twenty-eight people were injured. The wreck lingered around for a few more years.

Long term storage since 1992 for this Convair 580 TAM-70 with msn 94. TAM operated another Convair 580 with the same serial and msn 39 which was sold as N81MR in 1979.

Photo by Tom Hildreth.

The aircraft was delivered to the USAF as T-29C 52-1096 in September 1953, it was converted to AC-131A in April 1959 then AT-29C in May 1960, and re-designated ET-29C in 1962. It passed to the FAA as N244 in September 1962, re-registered N247 in September 1963 and then N28 in November 1963, N254 in 1966 and lastly to N94 in 1973. Restored to the USAF as 52-1096 in April 1977 but offered for sale and acquired by Time Aviation Services as N45786 in August that year. The last confirmed sighting at Tucson was in 1986 and thought scrapped around the time the registration was cancelled in July 1988.

originally delivered to Garuda in 1950 - still as a CV-240. To General Dynamics Corp. as N94294 in 1964. Converted to CV-600 in 1965 and delivered to Central Airlines in December 1965. To Frontier in 1967 and back to Indonesia in 1970 (photographer not known)