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Built 1956 and delivered to SAS June 13th 1956 as OY-KPB "Egil Viking". Leased to Linjeflyg in March and April 1976. wfu at CPH November 4th 1976. December 1976 LN-MAP Norfly A/S. Final flight for norfly was October 23rd 1982, and it was used for spares. It was after the disposal of LN-MAP, that Norsk Meropollitan Klubb was made to save the final CV-440 LN-KLK. LN-MAP has been a "hulk" as long a FBU was opeartive, and was actually moved to OSL, where it has survived several fire exexrcices ,anf still can be seen at OSL, rather derelict.

scrapped in 1984. Photo via G. Bouma

Official Lufthansa photo CH 311-8-7. Delivered 18 September 1957. Converted to CV-640 7T-VAY for Air Algerie 1968. Sold 1982 as N849TA, High Line Airways C-GQCY 1982, Norcanair 1988, Time Air 1988. Withdrawn Calgary Springbank 1991 and subsequently scrapped.

Built 1953 as a CV-240 as N73128 for United Airlines. 1960 N5120 rr and converted to CV-340-31by general Motors Corporation. Later converted to CV-580, and became HR-SAX, N9012J, N770PR and C-GKFT. May 15th 1986 LN-PAA for PartnAir, as the 3rd CV-580 in the fleet. Written off in a terrible accident September 8th 1989 in Skagerak, the aircraft had been leased by a Norwegian shipping company: Wilhelmsen for a trip to Hamburg, and all people aboard were killed in the accident. Scanned from a slide

Photo by Fred Guthrie.

Having been out of commission for over a year, it's nice to see this 70 year old Convair back in action. Seen here arriving from Victoria as "Flightcraft (KFA) 576" on the evening Purolator run.

exported to South Africa as ZS-SKL in June 2005

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Delivered Oct 1952 as N90852 to Continental. Mar 1959 to North Central. Via merge to Jan 1979 to Republic Airlines. Bought by Tigerair July 1981 and leased to Key Airlines, which bought it Aug 1983. Reregistered Nov 1981 as N32KA. Bought Aug 1985 by Westates Airlines, then owned and operated by various companies until arrived to Gray Line Air Jun 1994. Left their fleet already Mar 1995, have a few operators and become Apr 1997 C-GKGG with Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter.

Evidently Westates Airlines operated as a Trans World Express affiliate for a while. A press relese dated 11 October 1991 says flights would start on 27 October.

A Convair 340 for United Airlines as N73129 Mainliner Toledo in March 1953. To Frontier Airlines in 1962, the aircraft was converted to a CV580 in 1964. Acquired by Gem State Airlines (N117GS) in 1979, merged with local carrier Air Pacific to form Golden Gate Airlines (N73129) in 1980 only to shut down in 1981. Next with ERA Helicopters / Jet Alaska / Era AViation 1981 - 2003. Bought via Kelowna Flightcraft, Conair converted it to an air tanker, finally retiring in 2021. Stored at Red Deer, AB for Buffalo Airways in August 2021, who bought three Conair CV580s for their engines and propellers.

Built as CV-340

With history going back to 1948 with Trans Australian Airlines (VH-TAS), this CV240 had later registrations AP-AHS (Pakistan Internal Airlines), PH-NLP and PH-EUT (Fokker operating for Euravia), N559R (Beldex Corp) and N396GC (Faberge Inc). Faberge allowed free use of the aircraft to retired actor Cary Grant when he became a creative consultant with the company in 1970. Later stored, it became a project for California Air Heritage Foundation in 2010 which later floundered. The fuselage is currently stored at Shafter - Minter Field at the time of uploading.

Very small SAS sticker

"RESEARCH 9" CV-580 just departing on it's first leg to return home after spending some time in the Las Vegas area recently