Registration / Serial:N8500
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 340/440/540/580/640 (C-131)
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):202
City / Airport:Marana - Pinal Airpark (KMZJ / MZJ)Map
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Photo Date:11 May 1981
Photo by:Roger SyrattContact
Photo ID:558774Submit Correction
View count: 131
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.
Registration / Serial:N8500
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):202
City / Airport:Marana - Pinal Airpark (KMZJ / MZJ)Map
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Photo Date:11 May 1981
Photo by:Roger SyrattContact
Registration / Serial:N8500
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 340/440/540/580/640 (C-131)
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):202
City / Airport:Marana - Pinal Airpark (KMZJ / MZJ)Map
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Photo Date:11 May 1981
Photo by:Roger SyrattContact
Photo ID:558774Submit Correction
View count: 131
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.
Registration / Serial:N8500
Aircraft Version:Convair 580
C/n (msn):202
City / Airport:Marana - Pinal Airpark (KMZJ / MZJ)Map
Region / Country:Arizona, United States
Photo Date:11 May 1981
Photo by:Roger SyrattContact