Just finished fueling at the end gate of the old Port Columbus airport. the old observation deck is just above the forward fuselage and I spent many hours on the wonderful vantage point.

Delivered new to KLM in 1953 as PJ-CVB/PH-CGK and here just acquired by Eastern Canada Stevedoring Co. Ltd. and likely on delivery to Canada where it would have been used to fly maritime personnel from port to port. Strangely it was replaced by a CV240 with the same registration in 1964. This airframe was converted to CV580 and spent many years flying freight in Europe as OO-DHD and EC-GKH.

PPQ310 CV-580 taxis out for it's short flight to Tijuana

Delivered to the US Navy as 141009 in 1955. Stored at Davis-Monthan AFB with park code 1G023 in 1986. Sold as N8149P and converted to a sprayer for Beaufort County Mosquito Control in 1998. To Contract Air Cargo and stored at Pontiac, MI in 2011. Still there in 2017.

STTC - Sheppard Technical Training Center.

STTC - Sheppard Technical Training Center.

Was assigned to the 513rd Tactical Airlift Wing at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk. Preserved at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford from 1975. Scrapped in 1998 due to corrosion.

Returning from a sortie and about to touch down on Runway 31 at High Level Airport. Part of a bomber group deployed at the Airport's Fire attack Base.

Photographer: Adrian Stanislovaitis. K25 slide scan. Built 1948 as NC94218 for American Airlines, retired 1958. N1L with various corporate owners, reregistered N7779 1968. Hughes Aircraft Co. N314H 1970. Air Resorts 1982, operating for Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh alongside DC-3's N2647 and N31MC and Islander N555JK out of Antelope OR, then called Rajneeshpuram until he was expelled from the USA in 1985. The Convair was withdrawn at Lewis University Airport at Chicago-Romeoville. Sold 1998, dismantled and transported to rural Ohio for conversion into a restaurant but plan failed.

The first Lufthansa scheduled flight to Fornebu was on 5 November 1966. From time onwards, Lufthansa operated a weekly Saturday CV-440 flight from Hamburg via Gothenburg to Fornebu, and the first arrival was photographed on a rainy opening day. First flight was in 1957, and delivered new to LH as D-ACEX on 18 September 1957. On 31 June 1968 it was sold to Air Algerie as 7T-VAY, and converted to a CV-640 with RR Dart 542 turbo prop engines. April 1982 N849TA for Atlas Aircraft Corp, and a month later to C-GQCY for High Line Airways. To Norcanair in 1988, operated for TimeAir unitl withdrawn from use in March 1993.

Photographer: Adrian Stanislovaitis. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as CV-340 N4803C for Delta, converted to CV-440. North Central 1962, converted to CV-580 1969. TAM Bolivia TAM-70 1974, sold as N81MR 1979. Gulf Air Transport N511GA 1980, Air Cape ZS-LYL 1988. Went on to operate with Safair, Court, CHC Helicopter, Titan Helicopter Group. Preserved Wijnland Auto Museum Stellenbosch by 2018.

Photographer: Adrian Stanislovaitis. K25 slide scan. Built 1955 as 53-3537 for USAF, retired to MASDC around 1975. Civilianized as N1021B by Hamilton Aviation for General Air Services 1979, reregistered N450GA 1984. Kitty Hawk 1988, Rhoades 1989. Lost power after take Akron/Canton OH 28 November 1991 and destroyed by fire in ensuing forced landing in a field.

Leased from Air Mid America Airlines for the presidential campaign of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (hence the HHH on the nose). Seen with an armed guard during a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio.

Photo by Patrick Martin

"Catbird" is the callsign of the personal transport of the Commander in Chief of the US Navy Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH). This R4Y-1 was re-designated to VC-131F in September 1962. In 1999 it went to Everts Fuel as N2409R and was broken up for spares

Later N45783, stored at Tucson