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)

This aircraft was last reported stored at St. Louis Downtown Airport in 2022, and can be seen there on Google Earth imagery date 11/2022.

Ex-Suelawah. Photo by Steve Kraus. Previously ET-T-20 (Ethiopian), ET-AAV, N74857, PK-RCQ and N74857 (as seen here) and later N128AJ

Seen at take off rwy 36 one of the tours with passengers on board, the first day of Sola Air Show 1987. Bose of an Air UK F.27 is visible behind.

Registered to J. D. Wrather Jr. Photo by Steve Kraus.

w/o 30 May1998 Aguadilla-Borinquen Airport (P.R.) - damaged on a training flight when pilot selected gear-up instead of flaps down on landing..

w/o 24 September 1998 San Juan - crashed into mangroves shortly after takeoff due to engine failure

Flew for Cruzeiro do Sul between 1958 and 1967. Converted to a CV-580, it had many owners as N21466 and C-GJRP and from 1992 in Panama and Venezuela. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

On its way to being scrapped at Fort Lauderdale.

Possibly withdrawn from use at this stage of its life; N4808C was scrapped at FLL a few years later.

Ex-USAF 52-1092. To the FAA 1963 as N252, N247, N250 and then N95 in 1973. To N45787 1977, scrapped at Tucson, AZ.

A Convair 440 delivered to National Airlines in 1956, this airliner was bought by North Central Airlines in 1963 and converted to turbine CV580 standard in 1968. It remained in the fleet through the name change to Republic Airlines and merger with Northwest Airlines. To Time Air in 1990, it would later fly with Canair Cargo from 1992 - 98 before joining Nolinor. Air Spray bought Norlinor's CV580s in 2021 for their engines and propellers for use on their Electra airtankers. C-FTAP's airframe was donated to the Time Air Historical Society while the rest were scrapped at Mirabel, QC.

Freshly painted and being prepared for lease to Wings West for operation under the American Eagle brand. The registration has still to be applied.

Being prepared for a one-year lease by Sierra Pacific to Wings West Airlines. Note the registration has still to be reapplied after painting.

Stored after a period of operation with Metroflight under the American Eagle brand. Reportedly sold in Colombia as HK-3616X but seized by the Mexican authorities in 1992 when it was caught being used in a drugs-smuggling operation.