Delivered new to SABENA in 1955 as CV440 OO-SCS then sold to Frontier Airlines in 1968 and converted to turbo. Here it has just been imported by Kelowna Flightcraft, along with two others. All three are in Sierra Pacific livery and carry ferry registrations. This one was converted to fire bomber as C-FHKF for Conair then retired in 2022 and donated to the BC Aviation Museum. (For the record the other two were C-GEVB c/n 80, became C-FEKF and C-GEVC c/n 179, became C-FFKF.)

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1957 as CV-340 for Ansett, transferred to Airlines of South Australia 1960. Allegheny N8241H 1962, converted to CV-440, further converted to CV-580 N5829 1967. Evergreen 1977, converted to freighter, operating for Emery Worldwide. US Airways 1979, Interstate Airlines 1983. Summit Airlines 1983, reregistered N537SA 1986. DHL operated by EAT OO-DHB 1987, transferred to Swiftair as EC-830/EC-GBF 1995. Skyhaul ZS-SKL 2005, Titan Helicopter Group 2012, still active 2014.

Sold to Kelowna Flightcraft in Canada as C-FKFM in June 1992, it later served with AllCanada Express until acquired by Conair in September 2000 and converted to fire bomber configuration, becoming Air Tanker 54. When the CV580 fire bombers were withdrawn at the end of the 2022 fire season it was bought by Buffalo Airways, reportedly for its engines.

This aircraft will be more familiar to many older enthusiasts as Forbes Magazine's N60FM "Capitalist Tool", but at the time of the photograph it was leased to the US Department of Energy. In February 1984 it was registered N30EG and from May 1998 to April 2005 it was parked with the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum at Reading, PA., until February 2006 when it was sold to Canada as C-GSKJ with the Province of Saskatchewan and converted as a fire bomber. However it saw little service as it was written off in a fatal crash during a training detail at La Ronge, SK. in May 2006.

Departing ORD off runway 20.

One of many Convairs either in storage or being worked on at Tucson at the time.

Seen at the gate at DEN.

Seen about to leave the gate.

Great Lakes Paper operated this Convair 580 March 1970 to January 1973. Originally Convair 340 N73134 Mainliner Portland with United Airlines in 1953, it was owned by Johnson and Johnson as N400J after 1958. Converted to a 580 in 1963, the aircraft moved to the USA again in 1973 as N8EH. With the Canadian government as C-GRSC from July 1974 utilized for research with the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. Retired circa 2010, the aircraft was donated to the Canada Air and Space Museum in 2015 and housed in their reserve collection at Rockliffe, ON.

ex Gem State Airlines. Later re-registered N115GS. Any help on the location is appreciated.

Sharing the ramp at the KF Aerospace Museum in Kelowna with recently retired CV580 C-FKFA

Seen on takeoff from Tampa, FL.