(photographer not known)

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Mainliner Chicago was with United Airlines 1952 - 66 as a Convair 340 registered N73118. Sold to Lake Central Airlines, it was converted to a 580 When Lake Central merged with Allegheny Airlines in 1968, it was re-registered N5840. Sold to Great Lakes Airlines as C-GDTD in 1976 and rebranded Air Ontario in 1981. The aircraft was sold in 1987 as OO-VGH, operated by European Air Transport for DHL cargo services. Retired in 1991, it was scrapped at Brussels by 1994.

Aircraft wears Eastern Air Lines livery but did not fly for EAL and was really owned by the Major League baseball team. The Dodgers used a DC-3 earlier. In 1959 the team shocked New York by becoming the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ties with Eastern Air Lines were not immediately broken, judging by Peter Gates' 1959 picture of N1R. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

After flying for Eastern and Mackey International Airlines, this airframe served with several operators in Bolivia from 1980 as CP-1574. It was reportedly broken up in the late 1990s. Photo from: Convair

Convair photo so assumed taken before delivery. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

Slide traded with Don Spering in 1972.

Catching the last rays of sunshine of its career, still wearing the full colourscheme of the 'Happy Hooligans', 119 FIG Air National Guard.

Coming out of maintenance here in Los Angeles, this early Convairliner crashed on take-off from Palm Springs on a Las Vegas - Palm Springs - San Diego service on 13 February 1958. The right wing leading edge came off. The aircraft landed in the desert at high speed and hit some boulders. It caught fire and some of the 18 passengers were seriously injured. Photo from: SFO Museum

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as CV-340 N4812C for Delta, converted to CV-440. Aspen Airways 1970, sold to Carolina Aircraft Corp 1978. Aero Leon XA-ALS March 1979, returned to lessor November 1979. Briefly registered N49579 1979, before reentering service with Aero Leon as XA-KEG 1980. Last noted derelict at old Morelia airport in 1984.

Undergoing maintenance by MIACO. Photo by Joe Spiteri.

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with Namib Air from 1978 ti 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)