Registration / Serial:D-BESI
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 240/600 (C-131/T-29/Samaritan)
Aircraft Version:Convair 240-4
C/n (msn):110
Operator Titles:Condor Flugdienst
City / Airport:Southend (EGMC / SEN)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:1 November 1961 to 30 October 1962
Photo by:Mike CainContact
Photo ID:574615Submit Correction
View count: 228
Built 1948. To KLM -5 Nov.1948, initially as PH-TED, later PH-CED. To Deutsche Flugdienst as D-BESI -9 Dec.1957, to Condor Flugdienst -1 Nov.1961. Sold 30 Oct.1962, later as N2403Z to Ozark Airlines and as N8329C with Mohawk Airlines and several subsequent operators, the last being Asiatic International Airways, operating out of Singapore-Seletar. While flying a local test flight out of there on 17 Sept.1975, it suffered engine failure and ditched in the water of the Straits of Johore, some 400m short of the Seletar runway, to which it was trying to return. Marks N8329C cancelled 19 Dec.1975.
Registration / Serial:D-BESI
Aircraft Version:Convair 240-4
C/n (msn):110
Operator Titles:Condor Flugdienst
City / Airport:Southend (EGMC / SEN)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:1 November 1961 to 30 October 1962
Photo by:Mike CainContact
Registration / Serial:D-BESI
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 240/600 (C-131/T-29/Samaritan)
Aircraft Version:Convair 240-4
C/n (msn):110
Operator Titles:Condor Flugdienst
City / Airport:Southend (EGMC / SEN)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:1 November 1961 to 30 October 1962
Photo by:Mike CainContact
Photo ID:574615Submit Correction
View count: 228
Built 1948. To KLM -5 Nov.1948, initially as PH-TED, later PH-CED. To Deutsche Flugdienst as D-BESI -9 Dec.1957, to Condor Flugdienst -1 Nov.1961. Sold 30 Oct.1962, later as N2403Z to Ozark Airlines and as N8329C with Mohawk Airlines and several subsequent operators, the last being Asiatic International Airways, operating out of Singapore-Seletar. While flying a local test flight out of there on 17 Sept.1975, it suffered engine failure and ditched in the water of the Straits of Johore, some 400m short of the Seletar runway, to which it was trying to return. Marks N8329C cancelled 19 Dec.1975.
Registration / Serial:D-BESI
Aircraft Version:Convair 240-4
C/n (msn):110
Operator Titles:Condor Flugdienst
City / Airport:Southend (EGMC / SEN)Map
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Photo Date:1 November 1961 to 30 October 1962
Photo by:Mike CainContact