1980s USA and CANADA - CONVAIR TURBOPROPS
A selection of my photographs of the retrofittted turbine-powered Convair 580s, 600s and 640s
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Convair 580 N900WC in passenger service with Puerto Rico International Airlines PRINAIR at St Thomas, US Virgin Islands
in October 1981. This aircraft was built as a CV.340 and delivered new to Australia in 1954 as VH-BZD for Ansett Airways.
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N5599J was another former Ansett Airways CV.340 (VH-BZG) sold back to US and rebuilt with Allisons as a Convair 580.
Seen at Marana, Arizona in November 1981 while flying passenger charter with Pacific National Airways.
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Convair 580 N73153 at Klamath Falls, Oregon in September 1981 while on a fire support contract to US Forestry Service
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Convair 580 N73163 at Fort Lauderdale Executive, Florida in August 1989 as a freigher with Renown Aviation
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Convair 580 N5822 at Anchorage, Alaska in September 1981 with local operator Sea Airmotive.
It still wears the paint scheme of its previous owner Frontier Airlines.
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Sea Airmotive's CV580 N5820 at Anchorage, Alaska in September 1981 in Seair's own scheme
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Convair 580s N73104 (left) and N73109 at Denver, Colorado September 1981 in Aspen Airways' colourful schemes.
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Boarding Air New England's leased Convair 580 C-GJRP at Boston in October 1981
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Convair 580 C-GJRP eight years later as a freighter with Tempus Air, seen at Hamilton, Ontario in August 1989
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Convair 580 C-GKFZ was another Tempus Air freighter at Hamilton, Ontario in August 1989
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Kelowna Flightcraft Convair 580 C-GKFY freighter at Toronto in October 1981 while operated for Purolator Courier
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Convair 580 C-FARO in passenger service with Air Niagara at Toronto in August 1989
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Air Ontario Convair 580 at Toronto, Ontario in August 1989, one of their fleet of Convair 580s on passenger services
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Convair 600 N94246 with SMB Stage Line at the Dallas-Fort Worth freight terminal in November 1981.
SMB Stage Line had a large fleet of Convair 600s, which were CV.240s re-engined with RR Dart turboprops.
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Viking International Convair 600s unloading at the Oklahoma City freight ramp at midnight during November 1981
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Zantop International Convair 640 N640R at Oklahoma City in November 1981, waiting for that night's freight runs
The Convair 640s were the heavier CV.340s or CV.440s re-engined with RR Dart turboprops.
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Convair 640 N3412 at Dallas-Fort Worth in November 1981 had just been purchased from Zantop by SMB Stage Line
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Convair 640 N849TA at Miami-Opa Locka, Florida in October 1981 in Air Algerie colour scheme had been purchased by
Miami aircraft dealer Atlas Aircraft. The following month it was on-sold to High-Line Airways, Canada
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Convair 640 freighter N111TA undergoing maintenenace at Tucson-Ryan Field, Arizona in November 1981
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Retired Texas International Airlines Convair 600 N94239 being stripped for parts at Tucson, Arizona November 1981.
Tucson aircraft modification company Hamilton Aviation specialised in parts support for the Convair series.
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