Convair Division for most of its corporate history. Convair is best known for its military aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and Convair B-58...

The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas...

The Convair B-58 Hustler is a supersonic strategic bomber, the first capable of Mach 2 flight. Designed and produced by American aircraft manufacturer...

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" was a piston-engined strategic bomber built by Convair and operated by the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command...

The Convair 880 is a retired American narrow-body jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. It was designed to compete with the...

The Convair 990 Coronado is an American narrow-body four-engined jet airliner, produced between 1961 and 1963 by the Convair division of American company...

The Convair Kingfish reconnaissance aircraft design was Convair's entry in the competition to replace the Lockheed U-2 for the CIA's Project Oxcart mission...

crash site Greenville Baton Rouge On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg...

The Convair F-102 Delta Dagger is an interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair. A member of the Century...

The Convair F-106 Delta Dart is an all-weather interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair, a division of...

84233°W / 32.14870; -110.84233 The Convair XC-99, AF Ser. No. 43-52436, is a prototype heavy cargo aircraft built by Convair for the United States Air Force...

The Convair C-131 Samaritan is an American twin-engined military transport produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair...

The Convair YB-60 was a prototype heavy bomber built by Convair for the United States Air Force in the early 1950s. It was a purely jet-powered development...

The Convair NB-36H was an experimental aircraft that carried a nuclear reactor to test its protective radiation shielding for the crew, but did not use...

The Convair X-6 was an experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. Experiments were carried out on a testbed...

The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring...

The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is an experimental V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft developed during the early years of the Cold War. It was...

The Convair R3Y Tradewind was an American 1950s turboprop-powered flying boat designed and built by Convair. Convair received a request from the United...

The Convair XF-92 (re-designated from XP-92 in 1948) is an American delta wing first-generation jet prototype. Originally conceived as a point-defence...

The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American defense and aerospace manufacturer. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, United States. The...

The Convair F2Y Sea Dart is an American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on one or two hydro-skis during takeoff and landing. It flew only as a prototype...

The Convair Model 200 was a design for a supersonic vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter requirement for the United States Navy Sea Control Ship...

The Convair Submersible Seaplane (or "Subplane") was a United States Navy project to produce a seaplane which could travel underwater as well as fly....

turbojet and powered the Convair 880 airliner, and the CJ805-23 (military designation TF35) a turbofan derivative which powered the Convair 990 Coronado variant...

with Vultee Aircraft to become Convair. Whilst at Convair, Hillaker worked on the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and the Convair B-58 Hustler. On 2 October 1943...

On 27 October 1975 a Convair CV-440-12 operated by Transporte Aéreo Militar (TAM) was on a domestic flight from Tomonoco to El Alto Airport, La Paz, Bolivia...

The Convair XB-53 was a proposed jet-powered medium bomber aircraft, designed by Convair for the United States Army Air Forces. With a radical tailless...

Focke-Wulf Triebflügel "Convair Model 49 helicopter - development history, photos, technical data". www.aviastar.org. "Convair Model 49 | Strange Vehicles...

after Trump summit". CNN. Retrieved 2018-07-20. Bradley, Robert, 2010. Convair Advanced Designs: Secret Projects from San Diego 1923-1962. North Branch...

was rented to Convair during the war to produce B-24 Liberator bombers. On April 29, 1954, the merger between Electric Boat and Convair became official...

On 26 August 1966, a Japan Air Lines Convair 880-22M crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from Haneda Airport. There were no passengers...

The Convair XB-46 was a single example of an experimental medium jet bomber which was developed in the mid-1940s but which never saw production or active...

The Convair NC-131H Samaritan, also known as the Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS), is a modified Convair C-131 Samaritan that was used to study aircraft...

of the United States Green, p. 34 Winchester, p. 74 Ginter, pp. 22–23 "Convair XP-81". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved 6 December...

The Convair Model 48 Charger was a prototype light attack and observation aircraft of the 1960s, developed to meet a requirement for a dedicated counter-insurgency...

The Convair Model 118 ConvAirCar (also known as the Hall Flying Automobile) was a prototype flying car intended for mainstream consumers of which two...

A Swissair Convair CV-440 crashed on an intercontinental delivery flight from San Diego to Zurich with stopovers in New York City, Gander and Shannon...

The Convair Model 106 Skycoach was an experimental four-seat light aircraft, designed and built by the Stinson Division of Convair at the end of World...

The Convair Model 23 was a 1950s design for an American nuclear-powered seaplane for the United States Navy. Like the Air Force's WS-125, the Model 23...

The Convair P6Y was an unbuilt aircraft designed by Convair in the 1950s. The design was initiated to meet a requirement of the United States Navy (USN)...

On December 3, 1972, a Convair CV-990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax from Tenerife to Munich with 148 passengers and 7 crew crashed while...

contemporary rivals led to cancellation of production plans. Data from: Convair P5Y and R3Y Convair XFY Pogo Douglas A2D Skyshark Hiller X-18 Lockheed XFV North...

On 9 February, 1992, a Convair CV-640 operated by Gambcrest Enterprises crashed into a hotel in Dakar, killing 31 people on board. The crash is the second...

Ryan Aeronautical), founded in 1925, and Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair), founded in 1923. Charles A. Lindbergh's plane, the Spirit of St. Louis...

The Rockwell X-30 was an advanced technology demonstrator project for the National Aero-Space Plane (NASP), part of a United States project to create a...

in designing aircraft for the military. He spent his career working for Convair which became General Dynamics, then Lockheed, and then Lockheed Martin...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

designated the CJ805, powered the Convair 880, while an aft-turbofan derivative, the CJ805-23, powered the Convair 990 airliners and a single Sud Aviation...

of training in active-duty service, he was assigned to Houston, flying Convair F-102s with the 147th Reconnaissance Wing out of Ellington Field Joint...

service in September 1967 and the piston-powered Convair 340s and Convair 440s were all converted to Convair 580s with turboprop engines; the airline also...

of an aircraft bombing. All 7 occupants died. Swissair Flight 330  – A Convair 990 that crashed shortly after takeoff when a bomb detonated on board,...

approached Convair in late 1954. Convair proposed two concepts to Hughes, but Hughes was unable to decide which concept to adopt, and Convair eventually...

further developed into the Convair Model 118, but neither type achieved production status. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (later Convair) like many other manufacturers...

November 1975, her father named one of his private aircraft, a converted Convair 880 jet, after her. He spent more than $1 million refurbishing it for use...

"Archangel", the aircraft's internal code name. In 1959, it was selected over Convair's FISH and Kingfish designs as the winner of Project GUSTO, and was developed...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

51-year-old Convair 580, manufactured in 1953, serial number 068, with 67,886 flight hours. the accident aircraft was originally meant to be a Convair 340/440...

On 10 July 2018, a Convair 340 owned by Dutch aviation museum Aviodrome crashed during a trial flight in Pretoria, South Africa. The aircraft suffered...

Research from prior aircraft incorporating similar systems, such as the Convair Model 200, Rockwell XFV-12, and Yakovlev Yak-141, was also taken into consideration...

colleague of Volder at Convair, developed conversion algorithms between binary and binary-coded decimal (BCD). In 1958, Convair finally started to build...

with Vultee Aircraft to form Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft, later known as Convair. The Los Angeles-based Consolidated Steel Corporation is not related. The...

the country. However, 1954 was in many ways a turning point. Convair CV-340 and Convair CV-440 Metropolitan aircraft were purchased for short-haul and...

National–Pan Am–Panagra DC-7B via Panama and Lima took 22 hours and 45 minutes. Convair 240s replaced DC-3s and other pre-war types on Pan Am's shorter flights...

of the Atlas rocket family. It was built for the U.S. Air Force by the Convair Division of General Dynamics at an assembly plant located in Kearny Mesa...

402s, followed by the 1973 post ski season introduction of a 44-passenger Convair 440 twin radial engine airliner. The aircraft were operated out of Hollywood...

Convair were awarded contracts in the attempt to design, construct, and test two experimental VTOL fighters. Lockheed produced the XFV, and Convair producing...

to LaGuardia Airport in New York City, New York. On August 4, 1955, the Convair CV-240 crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Fort Leonard Wood...

following aircraft types: KLM former fleet examples Fokker F.II in 1920 Convair CV-340 in 1963 Douglas DC-8-55F in 1971 Airbus A310 in 1985 Boeing 737-300...

an all-jet fleet. Frontier continued to operate Douglas DC-3s and added Convair CV-340s beginning in 1959; the company introduced a new logo on the new...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

On 5 January 1970, a Convair 990 Coronado operated by the Spanish airline Spantax crashed shortly after take-off from Stockholm Arlanda Airport, killing...

The Convair XSM-74 was a subsonic, jet-powered, ground-launched decoy cruise missile. In March 1953, the United States Air Force released General Operational...

for Cold War deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 Peacemaker. The bombers flew under the Strategic Air Command (SAC)...

Concorde. This design has not been seen in high speed aircraft since the Convair B-58 Hustler bomber of the 1960s, due to high supersonic wave drag implications...

vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) fighter. Convair created the tail-sitter XFY Pogo. Coleman, a Marine reservist and Convair employee, was chosen to be its test...

KC-97 Stratofreighter Boeing XF8B Boeing XB-44 Superfortress Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair XC-99 Curtiss XBTC Curtiss XP-71 (not built) Douglas C-74 Globemaster...

Deutschendorf Sr. was a decorated pilot who set a number of air speed records in a Convair B-58 Hustler in 1961. In his 1994 autobiography Take Me Home, Denver described...

On 3 November 1980, a Latin Carga Convair 880 crashed in Caracas, Venezuela. The aircraft involved was a Convair CV-880F, (registered as YV-145C, with...

The Skycar IV of 1944 was also known as the Spratt-Stout Model 8 and the Convair 103. It was similar to the Skycar III with twin tail-booms, but fitted...

"S-five") was the third stage of the Saturn I rocket. It was built by Convair. It was designed to use two RL10A-1 engines fueled by liquid hydrogen (LH2)...

the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and the Convair F-106 Delta Dart. He also flew the Douglas DC-3, Lockheed T-33 Shooting...

pressure and cause lift. This had been noticed by Chuck Yeager in the Convair XF-92, but its qualities had not been fully appreciated. Weber suggested...

take-off from Santa Cruz Airport for the flight's Bombay to Karachi leg. The Convair 990A jet airliner operating the flight went down at Bilalpada village near...

1960s, Aspen operated a Convair 240 prop aircraft leased from Alaska Airlines and by 1970 was operating four Convair 340/Convair 440 prop airliners which...

United States from 1944 to 1948 and deployed until the withdrawal of the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber aircraft in 1958. It was one of a small class of...

Mixed Power Prototype Fighter". Jets 'n' Props. Retrieved 2023-11-20. "Convair XP-81". National Museum of the United States Air Force. Retrieved 20 November...

added to the fleet. These were the backbone of the fleet until 1955 when Convair 340 twins were introduced for a new service to Miami. Avensa had set up...

maintenance and upgrades on the Convair CV-240 family, for which it owns the type certificate. KF Aerospace has converted existing Convair CV-580s to the updated...

New York, South Africa, and South America with Douglas DC-4s. The modern Convair 240, the first Swissair plane with a pressurised cabin, was used for short-...

the brand PanAir Cargo, also operating six Convair CV-240s, in the CV-580F variant, in addition to a Convair C-131 Samaritan and a Boeing 727-200F. In...

Pluto – US nuclear ramjet project, 1957–1964 Convair NB-36H – American experimental plane (1955–61) Convair X-6 – US proposed nuclear-powered plane (1950s)...

Torrey Pines, through 1988. Title sponsors were first added in 1955, with Convair added to the name for two years. In 1981, Wickes was the title sponsor...

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Convair 90 XA-41 Convair Model 200 Convair CV-240 family Convair 240 Convair 300 Convair 340 Convair 440 Convair 540 Convair 580 Convair 5800 Convair...

1979. In 1959, Allegheny debuted its first turbine airliner, a Convair 540, a Convair 340 with the piston engines replaced by Napier Elands. When Rolls-Royce...

evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and leased to American Airlines as a freighter with the name "City of...

entered production, being passed over in favor of the more conventional Convair B-36 piston-driven design. Design work performed during the development...

The Canadair CL-66 is a turboprop version of the civilian Convair CV-440 Metropolitan. The CC-109 Cosmopolitan or "Cosmo" in RCAF service became the standard...

Mescalero 65-5251 Convair B-36J "Peacemaker" 52-2220 Convair B-58 Hustler 59-2458 "Cowtown Hustler" Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 56-1416 Convair F-106A Delta...

The Convair XGAM-71 Buck Duck was an air-launched decoy missile that was developed by Convair in the early 1950s. It was intended to have the same radar...

1964). "American Airlines Retires Convairs". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com. "Convair CV-440 / American Inter-Island"...

Union declares war on Japan. 1946 – First flight of the nuclear capable Convair B-36, heaviest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft at the time. 1956...

Air Rajneesh Convair 240 and Douglas DC-3 at Big Muddy Ranch Airport in October 1985....

The development of the Convair B-36 strategic bomber began in 1941 with the XB-36, which was intended to meet the strategic needs of the US Army Air Forces...

Aircraft in service with Great Lakes during the 1970s, being Convair 440 propliners and Convair 580 turboprops, were older and subject to vibrations during...

employers, where development continued. After receipt of the Gwinn Aircar, Convair began development of the Model 111 Aircar in 1945, which closely resembled...

On 17 December 1960, a Convair C-131D Samaritan operated by the United States Air Force on a flight from Munich to RAF Northolt crashed shortly after...

were mostly expended in various test programs. During one of these, a Convair-built airframe scored the first successful United States surface-to-air...

São José dos Pinhais and São Paulo respectively. On 16 June 1958, the Convair CV-440 operating the flight entered an area of rain accompanied by strong...

Greenville, South Carolina, on October 20, 1977, the band boarded a chartered Convair CV-240 bound for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they were scheduled to appear...

long-range patrol aircraft and for the Douglas DC-6, Martin 4-0-4, and Convair 240 transports. The last two were twin-engine aircraft of size, passenger...

Airlines livery) Douglas DC-3 (in Mohawk Airlines livery) Convair 240 Martin 4-0-4 Convair 440 BAC One-Eleven (initial livery) Fairchild Hiller FH-227B...

the 82 people aboard the Convair 880 were killed in the crash. On November 20, 1967, TWA Flight 128 was operated using a Convair 880 narrow-body jet airliner...

17–18, 1943, to form the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation − or Convair. In 1932, Errett Lobban Cord formed the Airplane Development Corporation...

Convair 600s and Douglas DC-3s at this time. Central Airlines operated the following: Beechcraft Bonanza (model A35) Convair 240 Convair 600 (Convair...

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the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying a Republic F-84 Thunderflash parasite fighter...

from S-5) X-6 – Convair (not built) X-7 – Lockheed X-8 – Aerojet X-9 Shrike – Bell X-10 – North American X-11 – Convair X-12 – Convair X-13 Vertijet –...

C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft v t e Soviet transport aircraft designations, 1923–1940 Cargo...

On 14 October 1953, a Sabena Convair CV-240 crashed 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Frankfurt, West Germany, shortly after taking off from Frankfurt International...

aircraft proposed under the Project Isinglass name was developed by the Convair division of General Dynamics, and was developed from work done on the Super...

in Copenhagen, which killed 125, and the deadliest accident involving a Convair CV-240 series. The accident was caused by improper maintenance and use...

the Government of South Africa. The airline flew one Convair 990 Coronado airplane and one Convair CV-880 airplane. "Ciskei International Airways history...

OK-Fort Smith, AR-Little Rock-Memphis, TN and later operated Convair 340 and Convair 440 propliners as well as Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprops and...

Nolinor Aviation bought two more full cargo Convair 580s in 2004. In 2006, the fourth passenger Convair 580 was purchased. In 2004, the Prud'Homme family...

Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 flying from Palma de Mallorca and a Spantax Convair 990 from Madrid. All 68 people on board the DC-9 were killed. The CV-990...

Tu-244, Tupolev Tu-444 United Kingdom – Bristol Type 223 United States – Convair Model 58-9, Boeing 2707, Lockheed L-2000, Douglas 2229, SAI Quiet Supersonic...

Norway's fifth-largest airline by revenue, operating a fleet of three Convair CV-580 and six Beechcraft Super King Air. The airline was based at Oslo...

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flight within the United States of America. On September 27, 1973, the Convair 600 turboprop aircraft en route from El Dorado to Texarkana, Arkansas crashed...

stands as the fourth-deadliest crash of a Convair CV-440 to date. The aircraft involved in the crash was a Convair 340/440-38, registered as N4189C. It was...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, with ten intermediate stops. On January 6, 1957, the Convair CV-240-0 performing the flight crashed while performing an instrument approach...

production Convair F-102A Delta Dagger at the same time that the prototype design was reworked to include area-ruling. It also appeared on Convair's next two...

these events. On display outside the museum are a Lockheed A-12 and a Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart. In addition to the main facility at Balboa Park, the museum...

AC Douglas A-26 Invader recoded BC in 1948 AD Vultee A-31 Vengeance AE Convair XA-41 BA Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress BA Martin B-57 Canberra BB Douglas...

Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft, analogous to the United States' earlier Convair NB-36H. It was intended to see whether a nuclear reactor could be used...

for an experimental lenticular-form air-to-air missile developed by the Convair Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in 1957. Intended as a defensive...

Freightways Express. The Convair carries 11 cargons[clarification needed] of freight on each trip. Despite its age the Convair is a great performer capable...

The Convair SM-65B Atlas, or Atlas B, also designated X-12 was a prototype of the Atlas missile. First flown on 19 July 1958, the Atlas B was the first...

On 19 June 1954 a Swissair Convair CV-240 ditched off Folkestone, Kent when it ran out of fuel while crossing the English Channel. All on board survived...

Range"). It was the largest bomber built for the USAAF until 1946, with the Convair B-36 surpassing it in size. The XB-19 project was intended to test flight...

McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend...

On April 12, 1973, a NASA Convair CV-990 and a US Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion collided on approach to Moffet Field, California. The two aircraft crashed on...

that the USAAF submitted a "letter of intent" to Convair, that ordered the first 100 production Convair B-36 bombers to be built—itself a design first asked...

Trackers), Douglas DC-6, Convair CV-580 (retired in 2022) and Lockheed Electra (retired in 2020). July 31, 2010 – Tanker 448, a Convair CV-580 with registration...

launching rail, the project never proceeded beyond the testing phase. Convair offered an upgrade of the F-102 Delta Dagger that would have been Genie-capable...

operated the following aircraft types: Air France also briefly operated Convair 990 and Douglas DC-8-61 jet aircraft. Douglas DC-3 in 2015 (preserved)...

speed of sound. Its impact on aircraft design was immediate: the prototype Convair YF-102, for example, was found not to be capable of exceeding the speed...

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Six-month, $250,000 study contracts were awarded to General Dynamics/Convair, General Electric, and the Glenn L. Martin Company. Meanwhile, NASA conducted...

757-200, and McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets. In addition, Republic operated Convair 580 turboprops previously flown by North Central. After the merger, losses...

Sometime after midnight on 14 February 1950, a Convair B-36B, United States Air Force Serial Number 44-92075 assigned to the US 7th Bombardment Wing,...

Star Cessna 402 Concorde Convair 240 Convair 340 Convair 440 Convair 540 Convair 580 Convair 600 Convair 640 Convair 880 Convair 990 Curtiss Commando Dassault...

2012. L, Steve (7 March 2017). "3rd Level New Zealand: The News on the Convairs and Aero Commander..." 3rd Level New Zealand. Retrieved 30 January 2020...

assets of the sale, however, and Convair continued its production in-house; ultimately building 300 units as the Convair L-13. It was a conventional high-wing...

An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft. The only...

net. Retrieved 20 February 2022. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240-1 N8406H Daggett, CA". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 17 February...

part of the Air France–KLM Group. KLM Cityhopper's head office is in the Convair Building on the grounds of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in Schiphol-Oost...

Boeing and Consolidated Aircraft Company and led to the production of the Convair B-36. In May, one month before the USAAF was created, the contract was...

for more modern aircraft, new Convair 240s were purchased. The addition of the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Convair 240 provoked a deep change of...

KB-50J Superfortress Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighter Chase XC-123A Convair B-36 Peacemaker Convair NB-36 Curtiss XF-87 Blackhawk Martin XB-51 North American B-45...

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The Convair 240 was introduced in 1949 to partially replace the DC-3s that until then had flown most European services. As of 1956, improved Convair 440...

transonic flow over an aircraft. The first uses of this theory were on the Convair F-102 project and the F11F Tiger. The F-102 was meant to be a supersonic...

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The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), among the earliest SAMs to equip United States Navy ships....

following aircraft registered with Transport Canada. KF Cargo leases out Convairs, the CV-580 / CV-5800s. KF Cargo's leasing operations has the distinction...

brother, Steve, who joined the band soon after. On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina...

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killing all 37 on both aircraft. June 19 – In the 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash, a Convair 240 ditched in the English Channel after running out of fuel...

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Flugunfall-Untersuchungskommission über den Unfall des Swissair-Flugzeuges Convair Convair 30 A CV-990 A "Coronado" HB-ICD vom 21. Februar 1970 bei Würenlingen...

Mississippi. The passengers had been informed about potential problems with the Convair CV-240 and were told to brace for a crash. Van Zant died on impact from...

Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020. "Convair 340". Delta Museum. Atlanta: Delta Air Lines. Archived from the original...

on October 25, three study contracts were awarded to General Dynamics/Convair, General Electric, and the Glenn L. Martin Company. Meanwhile, NASA performed...

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intended to be used in the "European bomber" that eventually emerged as the Convair B-36. Only two examples were built before the project was terminated in...

and portions of the VTOL exhaust duct design were previously used by the Convair Model 200, a 1972 supersonic VTOL fighter requirement for the Sea Control...

By the end of 1949, Orient Airways had acquired 10 DC-3s and three Convair 240s which it operated on these particular routes. In 1950, it had become...

a Convair CV-580, 11.5 miles (19 km) southwest of General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at 2,700 feet (820 m), as the northbound Convair was...

The "Cornfield Bomber" is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart of the United States Air Force's 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron which made...

Airways was born in the city of Cochabamba on September 14, 1970. With two Convair CV-440 aircraft, which operated on local routes with passengers. In 1979...

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first Convair and eventually increased its fleet to eight, two of which were operated as passenger airliners as late as 1993. Currently, two Convairs are...

first officers flying the piston-powered Convairs. Next, they added a former North Central Airlines Convair 580 turboprop aircraft which they purchased...

military. After an F-4B won the "Operation Highspeed" fly-off against the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, the USAF borrowed two Naval F-4Bs, temporarily designating...

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air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) jointly developed by Lockheed and the Convair division of General Dynamics during the late 1950s. The missile proved...

BAe 146-200 4 2003 2004 Operated by Buzz Stansted, returned to KLM uk Convair 580 1 1988 1988 Operated by Partnair. [citation needed] Boeing 737-200...

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Douglas DC-3, Convair 340, and Vickers Viscount aircraft. Central Airlines served from 1961 through 1967 using DC-3s, Convair 240s, and Convair 600s. Frontier...

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The Convair SM-65A Atlas, or Atlas A, was the first full-scale prototype of the Atlas missile, which first flew on 11 June 1957. Unlike later versions...

711, a Convair CV-240, crashed on approach to Springfield Municipal Airport, killing 13. August 4, 1955 – American Airlines Flight 476, a Convair CV-240...

the Bahamas with Convair 580 aircraft. Throughout its history, Airways operated a fleet of Short 330, Convair 580, Cessna 402, Convair 440, and Piper Aztec...

fleet of Convair 580s and Nord 262s. Lake Central Airlines previously operated the following aircraft:[citation needed] 8 Convair CV-340 4 Convair CV-580...

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Texas". The museum was originally created to preserve and display the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36s built from 1945 to 1954, only four intact examples...

proposed for various Navy and Air Force aircraft, e.g. Convair F-106, North American F-108, Convair B-58C, Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III, and North American...

Skyhawk and supersonic F-5 Tiger II, as well as the Mach 2.4-capable USAF Convair F-106 Delta Dart, to mimic the MiG-21. The culmination of the air struggle...

1944 experimental attack aircraft by Convair...

aircraft, as well as civilian airliners such as the Lockheed Electra and the Convair 580. The T56-A-1 delivered to Lockheed in May, 1953, produced only 3,000 shp...

the contract. Convair had come in a close second but Glennan did not want to monopolize the liquid hydrogen-fueled rocket market as Convair was already...

1950 until 1959, when the USAF withdrew the last ones in favor of the Convair B-58 Hustler, an early supersonic bomber. The Tornado was also adopted...

aircraft through Amarillo which included the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, and the Convair 880. Most eastbound flights first stopped at Wichita and continued onto...

United States Navy in the 1950s. It was primarily employed in powering the Convair F2Y Sea Dart and Vought F7U Cutlass. The engine also powered the land speed-record...

stationary roles as the FT4. In military use, the J75 was used on the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, Lockheed U-2, and Republic F-105 Thunderchief. It was...

killing both pilots, while the Convair landed at Columbus. Despite a collapsed nose gear on landing, all 35 on board the Convair survived. July 6, 1954: American...

Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 was a regularly scheduled Convair 580 flight on March 5, 1967, from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan with stops...

airliners.net, photos of American Inter-Island Convair 440 aircraft at St. Thomas airport (advanced search) "Convair CV-440 / American Inter-Island". antilles-air-boats...

– Unmanned missile technology demonstrator Convair X-11 – Single engine missile testbed for Atlas Convair X-12 – Three engine missile testbed for Atlas...

aircraft for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed by former Convair, Ryan Aircraft and General Dynamics aeronautical engineer William Samuel...

aircraft were built by Vultee-Stinson, the remaining 300 were built by Convair after Stinson was sold. "Northville: Economics & Education – Michigan History"...

aircraft in the 1930s followed by Douglas DC-3's in the 1940s. Larger Convair 240, Convair 340, and Douglas DC-6 aircraft were introduced in the 1950s followed...

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Sabre McDonnell F-101 Voodoo Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Lockheed F-104 Starfighter Republic F-105 Thunderchief Convair F-106 Delta Dart The term "Century...

1956. It armed the Northrop F-89 Scorpion, McDonnell F-101B Voodoo and Convair F-102 Delta Dagger and F-106 Delta Dart interceptors. The only other users...

860 Convair B-36 Peacemaker heavy bomber 1946 retired 1959 384 39,600 Convair B-58 Hustler strategic bomber 1956 retired 1970 116 8,820 Convair XB-46...

P-1W J57-P-1WB As P-1W J57-P-2 YJ57-P-3 8,700 lbf (39 kN), powered the Convair YB-60 J57-P-4A 16,000 lbf (71.17 kN), powered the Vought F8U-1 Crusader...

Canard. Convair XF-92 US Fighter 1948 Prototype Tailless Convair F2Y Sea Dart US Supersonic Fighter 1953 Prototype Tailless seaplane. Convair F-102 Delta...

Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 was a Convair CV-580 (aircraft registration N5825), that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in...

Paso, New Orleans, and San Antonio by the airline's Convair 600 turboprops as well as by Convair 240 and Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft with a total of 17...

its name to Latin Carga. On November 3, 1980, Latin Carga lost its only Convair CV 880 in a crash. That same year it ceased to exist.  Aruba Oranjestad...

(November 9, 1917 – January 17, 1999) was director of product engineering for Convair, a McDonnell Douglas subcontractor supplying parts for the company's newest...

Trainer 384 Convair B-36J Peacemaker Bomber 116 Convair B-58A Hustler Jet Bomber 1,000 Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 1953/ 1979 Interceptor 277 Convair F-106A...

30 on board. On December 27, 1968, North Central Airlines Flight 458, a Convair CV-580, crashed into a hangar at O'Hare, killing 27 on board and one on...

type ratings in other aircraft including the DC-3, DC-6, DC-7, and the Convair family. First Officer Hilliker was less experienced, with 9,269 flying...

Douglas DC-4, 22 Curtiss Commando, 2 Douglas DC-3, 3 Douglas C-47, and 2 Convair Catalina. In the 1958-1959 edition of Jane's, the last year in which the...

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maiden flight. Facing off competition such as the North American XB-45, Convair XB-46 and Martin XB-48, a formal contract for 10 B-47A bombers was signed...

achieved successful transition between flight modes, as the turboprop-powered Convair XFY Pogo did in November 1954. The coleopter type has an annular wing forming...

Company, in exchange for the lease of two Convair 880s. By March 1975 (1975-03), LANICA's fleet consisted of two Convair 880s, three C-46s, and four DC-6s that...

Project Mercury to send astronauts into low Earth orbit. Manufactured by Convair, it was derived from the SM-65D Atlas missile and was a member of the Atlas...

Douglas DC-6Bs to the company, as well as an order for a Convair 880-22M. Viasa boosted their Convair 880 order by purchasing another one. The airline flew...

April 1961, Convair 240s formerly operated by American Airlines began carrying Trans-Texas passengers; the airline later converted them to Convair 600s, replacing...

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collision Chicago Illinois McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, Convair 880 Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control...

which were later upgraded to Convair 340s, Convair 580s, and de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otters. By 1967 Frontier Convair 580s flew nonstop to Denver...

The "Vindicator" bombers are represented in the film by stock footage of Convair B-58 Hustlers, which could fly at twice the speed of sound. Fighters sent...

higher-performance turboprop aircraft such as the Fokker F27, Fairchild F-27, Convair 580, Convair 600 and Hawker Siddeley 748. The de Havilland Canada company personnel...

sides of the fuselage. After the advisory panel provisionally selected Convair's FISH design over the A-3 on the basis of RCS, Lockheed adopted chines...

flight from Singapore to Hong Kong operated by Cathay Pacific using a Convair CV-880 aircraft that crashed in Pleiku, then in South Vietnam on the afternoon...

of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress with the Mach 2 maximum speed of the Convair B-58 Hustler. In December 1957, the USAF selected North American Aviation's...

Domestically, non-presidential VIP travel still relied on the prop powered Convair VC-131 Samaritan aircraft until Nelson Rockefeller was named Gerald Ford's...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

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Improved Manned Interceptor Program as one of the contenders to replace the Convair F-106 Delta Dart as an Aerospace Defense Command interceptor in the 1970s...

(300,000 lbs) Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair X-6 Convair NB-36H Tupolev Tu-119 Notes Trakimavičius, Lukas. "The Future Role...

ejection" Four U.S. military aircraft have had escape crew capsules: The Convair B-58 Hustler Mach 2 bomber had individual encapsulated seats. The B-58's...

complex occupied over the decades by Convair, General Dynamics, and now by Lockheed Martin. The bulk of the Air Force Convair B-36, B-58 Hustler, General Dynamics...

strategic bombers. Examples of classic interceptors of this era include the Convair F-106 Delta Dart, Sukhoi Su-15, and English Electric Lightning. Through...

and Tucson that only stopped in Farmington. By 1966 the Convair 340s had been upgraded to Convair 580 turboprop aircraft and all of the original Douglas...

propeller-driven design configurations with relatively conventional fixed wings. The Convair XFY Pogo was one such aircraft, featuring a delta wing with cruciform tail...

civilian programs. Convair and Grumman, with Whitcomb's help, used it concurrently to design the Grumman F-11 Tiger and to redesign the Convair F-102. The Grumman...

with the last direct descendant being the highly successful Atlas II. Convair, the manufacturer of the Atlas, developed the Centaur upper stage specifically...

707-331 round trip between New York and Miami. In 1960 Northeast leased six Convair 880s and flew them to Florida for several years. Howard Hughes acquired...

regional aircraft. These activities lasted until Summer 1987. Later on also Convair CV-580 were used In 1985, EAT expanded its activities by contracting with...

USAF circulated its requirement for 800 jet tankers to Boeing, Douglas, Convair, Fairchild Aircraft, Lockheed Corporation, and Martin Marietta. At the...

A Convair 880 at Los Angeles International Airport in 1964...

Three days after the release of Street Survivors, Skynyrd's chartered Convair CV-240 crashed into a forest near McComb, Mississippi. The crash took the...

was suggested that the weapon be aimed using infrared homing. In 1955, Convair, recently purchased by General Dynamics, began examining a weapon that...

market. The airline entered the jet age when in February and May 1967 two Convair 990 four engine jetliners joined the fleet after being purchased second...

pressurized fuselage. Convair produced the Convair 240, a 40-person pressurized airplane; 566 examples flew. Convair later developed the Convair 340, which was...

2024 1 Bristol Type 200 1956 1958 0 Chengdu J-36 2025 1? Convair Model 200 1973 1973 0 Convair XB-53 1945 1949 0 Dassault Falcon 50 1974 1976 2008 352...

Air Force Base, a bomber base in Fort Worth, Texas, to qualify in the Convair B-36. He arrives in a civilian business suit, for which he is later rebuked...

passenger traffic On May 23, 1960, Delta Air Lines Flight 1903, a Convair CV-880-22-1 (N8804E), crashed on takeoff resulting in the loss of all four...

Look up FY in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fy or FY may refer to: Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental aircraft Fengyun, a series of Chinese weather...

of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The accident aircraft, a Convair 240 operated by Northeast Airlines, commenced a non-precision VOR approach...

those aircraft were reassigned elsewhere. Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair) had its headquarters adjacent to Lindbergh Field and manufactured military...

Convair CV-440 Metropolitan udergoing scrapping...

Central Air Transport (CAT), directed a total of 12 aircraft — including one Convair CV-240 airliner, three C-46 transport aircraft, and eight C-47 transport...

the cockpit. In 1956, Fogel moved to San Diego, California to work for Convair, a division of General Dynamics Corporation. He worked as head of the Reliability...

they were driven to the Memphis airport and boarded Presley's private Convair 880 jet, the Lisa Marie, and flew the two hours to Denver. When they arrived...

DC-3s, 8 Catalina seaplanes, and 8 Convair 240s. In 1956, the airline operated its first flight to Mecca with Convair aircraft, carrying 40 Indonesian pilgrims...

Miami Airlines C-46 in December and the crash of an American Airlines Convair 240, three weeks earlier. The aircraft, a four-engined, propeller-driven...

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focus on its aerospace program. Cheney became a research scientist at Convair Astronautics in San Diego, California, where his mathematical team worked...

Superfortress (bomber) Convair B-36 Peacemaker (bomber; piston and jet-driven) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (bomber) F, D H Convair B-58 Hustler (supersonic...

Pionair expanded into the Australian market. In 2003, it purchased a Convair 580. It diversified into fly-in fly-out work with contracts for the Thiess...

A Convair B-58 Hustler, one of the airplane models used in the Oklahoma City sonic boom tests...

T38 power sections feeding a common gearbox. The engines fitted to the Convair CV-240-21 Turboliner were rated to 2,750 shp (2,050 kW) equivalent. In...

this competition, Willis negotiated with aircraft manufacturer Convair to purchase a Convair 880 jetliner with no money down, for use on routes between Alaska...

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one airframe was lost when it crashed when it overshot the runway at Convair field. In January 1946, another landing incident damaged one at NAS Norfolk...

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10,000 pounds (4,500 kg) bombs that had been developed for the massive Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber, but had never been used. The U.S. Army and USAF...

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B-58 ever built. Convair C-131F Samaritan USN 141017 On outdoor display Convair F-102A Delta Dagger USAF 56-1393 On outdoor display Convair TF-102A Delta...

the hangar bay. The aircraft involved was a Convair CV-580 (registration N2045), c/n 369, which Convair had completed as a CV-440 Metropolitan on October...

Aerovias Brasil, part of the consortium Real-Aerovias-Nacional, bought three Convair CV-990A for its intercontinental routes shortly before the consortium was...

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were ultimately built. Consolidated Aircraft became Convair, following a merger in 1943. Convair was itself acquired by General Dynamics in 1953. Beginning...

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earthquake Earthquake Almería, Andalusia 155 1972 1972 Tenerife Spantax Convair CV-990 crash Plane crash Tenerife, Canary Islands 154 2008 Spanair Flight...

Aviation Administration to operate its calibration aircraft, from 1967 a Convair CV-340, from 1976 a Hawker Siddeley HS 748 and from 1996 a de Havilland...

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strategic bomber, Tupolev Tu-95LAL, similar to the somewhat earlier American Convair NB-36H project, but, being based on the turboprop Tu-95, it was never supersonic...

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era de Havilland Comet Convair 880 Convair 990 Coronado Douglas DC-8 Ilyushin Il-62 Shanghai Y-10 Vickers VC10...

opening night. In 1958 she wrote a letter to the head of publicity at Convair, Ned Root, and volunteered to man history's first spaceship. Instead of...

building regional air passenger traffic. From 1996 to 1998, it operated a Convair 580 for courier and cargo services. In 1995 the first DHC-6 Twin Otters...

Soviet Union. In response, the USAF had ordered two interceptors from Convair: the F-102 Delta Dagger and the F-106 Delta Dart, but both were experiencing...

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(TTa). TTa soon upgraded its DC-3 flights with 40-seat Convair 240 aircraft and later to Convair 600 turboprops. All commercial service had been flown...

had amassed a fleet of nine Convair 440s and two Convair 340s to operate their route network. In December of 1984 a Convair 440 made an emergency landing...

SLV-3C Centaur-D (AC-18) Launch site Cape Canaveral LC-36A Contractor Convair End of mission Disposal Decommissioned Deactivated March 1984 Orbital parameters...

February 7, 2022, Frances died. On August 22, 1973, Haise was piloting a Convair BT-13 belonging to the Commemorative Air Force that had been converted...

become operational. Nevertheless, in 1953, Luftag placed orders for four Convair CV-340 and four Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellations aircraft and set up...

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maintenance of Electronic Data Interchange standards for the United States Convair X-12, an advanced testbed for the Atlas rocket program Cummins X12, a diesel...

propeller installations, and enough fuel for transatlantic range. The Convair B-36 was in many ways the American equivalent of that projected "100-ton...

Tracker) Northrop N-63 (rival tailsitting VTOL design to Lockheed XFV-1 and Convair XFY-1) Northrop N-65 (interceptor for WS-201 program) Northrop N-74 (tactical...

1967, the Eastern system timetable listed Caribair flights operated with Convair 640 "prop jet" aircraft as connecting services between San Juan and both...

companies, such as the American aerospace company Convair. The legal relationship between McDonnell Douglas, Convair, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

General Dynamics in 1952. During 1954, General Dynamics opted to purchase Convair, which had been created by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee...

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Airlines (AA) suspended jet service to the airport and began operating Convair 440 propliners instead for service to nearby St. Croix (STX) for connections...

Trimotor. Convair XF-92A US Jet Fighter 1948 Prototype 1 Convair F2Y Sea Dart US Jet Fighter 1953 Prototype 5 Supersonic flying boat. Convair F-102 Delta...

1950s, Pan Am twin-engine Convair 240s flew across the Caribbean from Barranquilla, Colombia to Kingston, Jamaica, Avensa Convair 340s flew from Maracaibo...

very high thrust-to-weight ratio. It is loosely based on the experimental Convair XFY Pogo aircraft. Fantasticar: The Fantasticar is the name of various...

TSR-2 prototype Saunders-Roe SR.53 interceptor prototype  United States Convair B-36 Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing B-52 Stratofortress North American A-5...

(operated by Inter-Canadien) Convair 340 (operated by Inter-Canadien) Convair 580 (operated by Time Air and Inter-Canadien) Convair 640 (operated by Time Air)...

and Douglas DC-7s in use at that time. As early jets such as the Convair 880, Convair 990, Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were bought by airlines, all long-haul...

on December 2, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2017. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240-2 N90670 Nantucket Memorial Airport, MA (ACK)". "National Register...

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program was initiated in the late 1950s by General Dynamics through its Convair division. Atlas was a liquid propellant rocket burning RP-1 kerosene fuel...

as business grew (especially seasonally), the company also purchased a Convair 440, which was essentially used on flights on behalf of Lufthansa. However...

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aboard platforms mounted on the afterdecks of conventional ships. Both Convair and Lockheed competed for the contract but in 1950, the requirement was...

Goblin, an attempt to equip bombers with their own escort fighters (1948) Convair B-36/F-84, a more successful, escort fighter attempt (1952) Lockheed DC-130/Q-2C...

donated to Pima Air & Space Museum. Consolidated Catalina 3 1947 1948 Convair 880 8 1962 1975 First jet aircraft type operated by the airline. 1 1972...

General Electric J47-19 jet engines, originally used as boosters for the Convair B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental bomber, were mounted atop an existing...

was redesignated as the 32d Fighter Interceptor Squadron and received Convair F-102 Delta Daggers. It acquired a 24-hour alert interceptor mission from...

American F-86 Sabres, Northrop F-89 Scorpion, Lockheed F-94 Starfires and Convair F-102 Delta Daggers before leaving Griffiss in 1959. In October, 1955,...

to 33 jet planes. Then on June 7, 1956, Hughes placed an order for 30 Convair 880 Skylarks. Hughes wanted the newly ordered Covair's to be made of an...

Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), using a Convair 580 turboprop aircraft. Metroflight also operated de Havilland Canada DHC-6...

Base Major Rogers Convair F-106A Delta Dart (type example) 1,525 2,454 ? 1961 Edwards Air Force Base Major Harold E. Confer Convair B-58A Hustler (type...

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1934 Hillman's Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide crash 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash 2007 Kent earthquake Twin towns Boulogne-sur-Mer Middelburg...

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operated a Vigo-A Coruña-Santander-San Sebastián-Barcelona line served by Convair 440s. The routing proved to be spectacularly unpopular and unprofitable...

first jetliner type operated by the airline was the Convair 880. Alaska also operated the Convair 990 jetliner. Besides the current Boeing 737 models...

Arkansas, to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Metroflight utilized Convair 580 turboprop aircraft that had been formerly operated by Frontier Airlines...

introduced Convair 340 aircraft on its flights into the airport and would later serve Billings with Boeing 737-200 jets as well as with Convair 580 and de...

suggested that the DM-1 influenced design of the Convair delta-wing jets, beginning with the XF-92A. Convair engineers are known to have examined the DM-1...

mainland flight plans and services.[citation needed] On May 29, 1965, a Convair 240 JA5088 landed at Obihiro Airport with the right side main landing gear...

During the 1960s TTa upgraded their service using Convair 240 piston propliners and later to Convair 600 turboprops In 1968, the airline began operating...

TB-29 Superfortress 44-84076 Convair B-36J 52-2217 Convair B-58A Hustler 61-2059 Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 54-1405 Convair T-29A 50-0190 Douglas A-26B...

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Alitalia CityLiner [citation needed] Convair CV-340-41/440 Metropolitan 3 48 1953 1962 [citation needed] Convair CV-440-81 Metropolitan 3 48 1954 1962...

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the event, Dan Applegate, Director of Product Engineering at Convair, wrote a memo to Convair management pointing out several problems with the door design...

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built in the United States, with the Stinson division the only part of Convair that was profitable for a time. In 1948, however, overproduction in the...

Airways, later known as Connair Continental Airlines, an American airline Convair, an American aircraft manufacturer Kawneer, an American construction products...

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airline to fly the Douglas DC-8. In 1960, it was the first airline to fly Convair 880 jets. In 1964, it launched the Deltamatic reservation systems using...

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SR-7 SR-8 SR-9 SR-10 Airliner SM-6000 T U Vultee models V74 V75 V76 V77 Convair models 105/HW-75 10/HW-80 10-A/HW-90 108 108-1 108-2 108-3 One off designs...

(1978–1984) Boeing 767-217ER (ordered but later cancelled) Bristol Britannia Convair CV 240 (operated on northern Canadian routes) Curtiss Wright C-46F Commando...

from the plane. On 28 May 1968, Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892, a Convair 990A bound for Amsterdam but was on its next flight segment from Bombay...

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returned to the Continental United States in 1947, being equipped with Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic bombers, both in the bomber and strategic reconnaissance...

aircraft: Beechcraft King Air Cessna 185 Skywagon Cessna 421 Convair Liner 340 (580) Convair 440 (580) Grumman Gulfstream I (G-159) Hawker Siddeley HS 748...

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returned into the cargo business again with a new airline, LAMCASA with Convair 340, Airbus A300 and Boeing 727-200 aircraft, which operated from 1994...

SR-7 SR-8 SR-9 SR-10 Airliner SM-6000 T U Vultee models V74 V75 V76 V77 Convair models 105/HW-75 10/HW-80 10-A/HW-90 108 108-1 108-2 108-3 One off designs...

Convairliners including Convair 240 and Convair 340 aircraft. The DC-3s were operated for several more years while the Convair 240s were retired during...

technologies into a new Advanced Cruise Missile system. In 1983, General Dynamics Convair Division (GD/C) was awarded a development contract for the AGM-129A (the...

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SR-7 SR-8 SR-9 SR-10 Airliner SM-6000 T U Vultee models V74 V75 V76 V77 Convair models 105/HW-75 10/HW-80 10-A/HW-90 108 108-1 108-2 108-3 One off designs...

(New York City bus) in Brooklyn B36 Tórshavn, a Faroese football team Convair B-36 Peacemaker, a Cold War era strategic bomber B-36 Peacemaker Museum...

aircraft. Rockwell's design with the XFV-12 won against Convair's proposal with the Convair Model 200. The XFV-12A, despite its concept being considered...

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service between Auckland and Norfolk Island on 6 September 2019 using a Convair 580.[citation needed] Since the reopening of the Trans-Tasman bubble in...

strengths and sizes. First NASA airborne observatory, Galileo, was a modified Convair 990. It first flew for the solar eclipse of May 30, 1965. It was named...

airline had introduced larger Convair 340 and Convair 580 propliners. By 1970, Frontier began replacing their Convair 580 turboprop flights with Boeing...

assigned to Pratt & Whitney. The program was intended to develop and test the Convair X-6, but was canceled in 1961 before that aircraft was built. The total...

long-range bomber. The program was started in 1955 in conjunction with Convair for a joint engine/airframe proposal for the WS-125. It was one of two...

redesignated SAM-2 in 1947 S: Sperry KAS Sparrow – redesignated AAM-2 in 1947 Y: Convair KAY Lark – redesignated SAM-4 in 1947 A: Ryan KDA Firebee – redesignated...

hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The Centaur concept originated in 1956 when the Convair division of General Dynamics began studying a liquid hydrogen fueled upper...

world's first Convair 880 scheduled passenger flight nonstop to New York City Idlewild Airport from Hobby. Delta would introduce Convair 880 flights nonstop...

obsolete on main routes by more advanced types such as the Douglas DC-4 and Convair 240, but the design proved adaptable and was still useful on less commercially...

flew direct to El Paso. In 1963, Trans-Texas flights to McAllen were all Convair 240s flying direct to Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas Love Field, Fort Worth...

aircraft from the airfield during the 1970s as well as Convair aircraft (Convair CV-580, Convair CV-640), de Havilland Canada Dash 7 and Dash 8 turboprops...

Hinckley, England: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-331-0. "Download Convair Advanced Designs II: Secret Fighters, Attack Aircraft, and Unique Concepts...

Rocket 1958-2002 (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Convair Aerospace Division of General Dynamics; Martin Marietta Aerospace (September...

cabin remained embedded in the Convair's forward baggage compartment; the Cessna's three occupants were killed. The Convair made a safe emergency landing...

reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 13 February A U.S. Air Force Convair B-36B Peacemaker, 44-92075, of the 436th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing,...

Continental introduced Douglas DC-3 service, followed soon with Convair 240 and Convair 340 aircraft. In 1950, Continental expanded its service by adding...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

B-29 mission of the war on 27 July 1953. With the arrival of the mammoth Convair B-36, the B-29 was reclassified as a medium bomber by the Air Force. The...

their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair CV-300 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South...

and intercontinental range of the B-52 with the Mach 2 top speed of the Convair B-58 Hustler. The new bomber was expected to enter service in 1963. Nuclear...

sought to relocate its aircraft operations—such as the Convair 240, Convair 340, and Convair 440—from the inadequate Morokrembangan Airport to Juanda...

Sabre, 1953–1955 Northrop F-89 Scorpion, 1955–1956 Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1956–1960 Convair F-106 Delta Dart, 1960–1968 Fairchild Republic A-10...

crash landed and caught fire at Piarco, killing them. 28 November 1963 – a Convair CV-340 operated by Avensa was hijacked by six armed people shortly after...

from C&S to fly one of its first international services operated with Convair 880 jet aircraft from San Francisco to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Caracas...

Flight 3749 from Denver to Durango, CO, operated by Aspen Airways using a Convair 580 aircraft, drifted off a snow-packed runway at night while landing at...

provides microtransit service from the end of Route 9. On June 29, 1972, a Convair CV-580 flying as North Central Airlines Flight 290 bound for Oshkosh, Milwaukee...

rocket ever built. It is comparable to other unbuilt concepts such as Convair's Nexus and Super Nexus, Boeing's Large Multipurpose Launch Vehicle, Phillip...

and Chance-Vought, Convair, Douglas, and Lockheed each submitted a single design. On 2 July 1951 the Air Force announced that Convair, Lockheed, and Republic...

the United States. He flew the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter and later the Convair B-58 Hustler. In 1966, while on leave from service in Vietnam, Colonel...

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original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Convair-990)". Aviation Safety Network. 3 December 1972. Archived from the original...

turboprop tailsitter fighter prototypes were designed for the US Navy, the Convair XFY "Pogo" (610 mph (980 km/h)) and the Lockheed XFV (578 mph (930 km/h))...

early 1970s with British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven jet aircraft, Convair 340, Lockheed L-188, and Douglas DC-3 prop aircraft from its base in Nassau...

Consolidated at San Diego (CO). Ford also built sub-assemblies for Douglas and Convair Fort Worth; these sub-assemblies were identical to Ford-built B-24Es, except...

Optional De Dion rear suspension.Mostly Microplas Mistral GRP bodyshell, also Convair and AKS etc. BB100 1958–1962 Backbone tubular steel chassis. Aluminium...

traffic to support a larger jet. Air Tahoma operated twin-engine turboprop Convairs (either the 580 or the 240). On 13 August 2004, Air Tahoma Flight 185 crashed...

accident Convair CV-580 9Q-CRU Tshikapa Airport (TSH)". Retrieved 6 June 2015. Ranter, Harro (18 November 1999). "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-580 9Q-CEJ...

two types; Swearingen Metroliners (flying as Commuter Airlines), and the Convair CV-580s (now flying as Freedom Airlines). By mid-1982 they had also consolidated...

approach, the plane lost control while turning and crashed. After the Convair 340 disappeared from radar screens, a search was initiated by the Search...

Consolidated Aircraft Corporation sold to AVCO 1943 Consolidated-Vultee, known as Convair, formed by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft; still...

President of Brazil 16 June 1958 São José dos Pinhais Brazil Airplane accident Convair CV-440 Metropolitan Abdul Salam Arif President of Iraq 13 April 1966 Baghdad...

designations were official.[citation needed] In 1959, Bell teamed with Convair to form a joint weapon systems management team in order to push the XF-109...

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Torpedo/dive bomber Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company 1945 N/A 2 Convair XA-44 / XB-53 Convair Project cancelled before two prototypes were built N/A N/A 0...

turbulence. Both occupants died. On June 27, 1954, an American Airlines Convair CV-240 (N94263) from Dayton International Airport was on approach to Runway...

the Soviet Union (2nd in service), and the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880 from the United States. National prestige was attached to developing...

American A-5 Vigilante Boeing B-47 Stratojet Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Convair B-58 Hustler Related development Tupolev Tu-98 Tupolev Tu-22 Aircraft of...

other jets included BAC One-Elevens and Convair 990s on nonscheduled casino charters. The four engine Convair 990 jet operated by Denver Ports of Call...

added four more suitable Douglas DC-3 and later two more comfortable Convair CV-440 Metropolitan. The first international flight (to Stockholm) took...

Voodoo Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair F-102 Delta Dagger Convair F-106 Delta Dart Lavochkin La-250 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom...

to supply 56 F-101B interceptors and 10 F-101F trainers (by employing Convair F-102 Delta Daggers in less demanding NORAD sectors) for Canada. The deal...

Scripps College to become a "computer" with a thermodynamics group at Convair in Pomona, California. At the beginning of her career, Finley made sacrifices...

BuNo 157332, operating from NAS Moffett Field, California collided with a Convair 990 (N711NA) operated by NASA during approach to runway 32L. They crashed...

the Beech D18 and Douglas DC-3.[citation needed] In 1981 it operated two Convair 600 airliners. During the 1980s the airline would be bought by the Hartford...

the Convair 880.[citation needed] In 1967, it became an all jet airline with the replacement of its last Lockheed L-188 Electra with a Convair 880. In...

consumption, which had a side benefit of extending range. The Convair 880. Although Convair offered only one configuration of this aircraft, it had more...

53-4296 Cavalier F-51D Mustang 68-15796 Cessna O-2A Skymaster 68-6864 Convair F-102 Delta Dagger 56-1264 Douglas TC-47B Skytrain 44-76486 Fairchild Republic...

525th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Bitburg Air Base received its first Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. In 1960, additional F-102s were received from Air Defense...

Connecticut and a third in Pennsylvania. On June 7, 1971, the Allegheny Airlines Convair CV-580 operating the flight crashed on approach to Tweed New Haven Regional...

flights to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Port au Prince, Haiti operated with Convair 340 twin prop aircraft. The eastbound Delta flights operated a daily routing...

upgraded to larger 50-seat aircraft during the 1960s with the Convair 340 followed by the Convair 580. Frontier's service continued until 1981 when the carrier...

Convair, 10 February 1960 "Flight Test Evaluation Report, Missile 44D." Convair, 29 March 1960 "Flight Test Evaluation Report, Missile 48D." Convair,...

well as the proposed Convair Model 200, and the Vought Model 1600, a naval General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon derivative. Convair Model 200 Grumman F-14B...

during the 1960s which were operated with Douglas DC-3 and Convair 240 propliners followed by Convair 600 turboprops. By 1969, Trans-Texas Airways had changed...

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Tupolev Tu-144 Historic projects Airliners Boeing 2707 Bristol Type 223 Convair Model 58-9 Douglas 2229 High Speed Civil Transport LAPCAT Lockheed L-2000...

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Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton Airphibian Skroback Roadable...

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pins that had been illegally sold as "aircraft-grade." Type of aircraft: Convair CV-580 52 4 "Sight Unseen" 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision...

aircraft:[citation needed] 4 Beech E18S 3 Cessna 402 1 Cessna 208 3 Convair 240 2 Convair 440 2 Douglas C-47 Skytrain 5 Douglas DC-3 1 Douglas C-54 Skymaster...

with Douglas DC-3 aircraft. Also in 1969, the airline began acquiring Convair 440 piston powered airliners configured with 44 passenger seats in order...

engines Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rolls-Royce RB.203 Trent. "Convair 660". Flight International. 7 December 1967. p. 932. "RB.203 Trent". Flight...

Regional Jet 900 CRJX CRK Canadair Regional Jet 1000 CVLT CV5 Convair CV-580, Convair CV-600, Convair CV-640 D228 D28 Dornier 228 D328 D38 Fairchild Dornier...

construct a bomb for use on the Nevada Test Range. February 13, 1950: a Convair B-36B crashed in northern British Columbia after jettisoning a Mark IV...

STARS Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Douglas DC-8 Convair 880 Gunston, Bill. The Encyclopedia of Modern Warplanes, p. 64. Aerospace...

started in 1961; flights to Europe via India started in 1962, initially with Convair 880s. Under government pressure, Boeing 727s were acquired for domestic...

acquired three Convair CV-240s to service the Karachi-Delhi-Kolkata-Dhaka route and became the first Asian airline to operate Convair aircraft. Orient's...

Two Convair 580s of the Denver-based Aspen Airways at Stapleton in 1986...

Cotzal Guatemala 4 22 Apr 1977 TG-ACA Convair CV-440 Aviateca Guatemala City Guatemala 28 1977 Aviateca Convair 240 crash 30 Sep 1977 TG-AKA Douglas DC-3...

California. There, it became the first operational squadron to fly the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. In 1958 it moved to Thule, where it replaced a unit...

Aerocar Autogiro Company of America AC-35 AVE Mizar Bryan Autoplane Convair Model 116 Convair Model 118 Curtiss Autoplane Fulton Airphibian Skroback Roadable...

XB2Y LB-30A/B Liberator B.I Liberator GR.I TBY Transports C-11 C-22 C-87 XC-99 C-109 RY R2Y Liberator C.IX Reconnaissance F-7 See also: Convair aircraft...

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers were followed by the Mach 2 Convair B-58 Hustler, with the Mach 3 North American B-70 Valkyrie being developed...

1934 Hillman's Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide crash 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash 2007 Kent earthquake Twin towns Boulogne-sur-Mer Middelburg...

54-2736 Cessna U-3A 57-5922 Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk 153671 Convair TB-58A Hustler 55-0663 Convair TF-102A Delta Dagger 56-2317 Douglas C-47D Skytrain 43-49270...

only in 1999. Flights operated on an hourly basis initially by Convair 240 (Varig), Convair 340 (Cruzeiro) and Saab 90 Scandia (VASP). In a matter of a few...

737-200s in 1982 (runway 12/30 was then 8500 ft). Earlier, Frontier flew Convair 580s between Montrose and Denver. An enhanced and expanded Montrose Regional...

along with 34 others in the crash of a chartered Sierra Pacific Airlines Convair CV-440 aircraft near Bishop, California, while filming the ABC/Wolper Productions...

B-50 Superfortress Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair B-36 Tupolev Tu-85 Related lists List of bomber aircraft List of military...

composed of various hydrocarbons, was originally designed to be used by Convair to protect the outer skin of the Atlas missile from rust and corrosion...

SD - Aberdeen, SD - Pierre - Rapid City - Spearfish, SD. Convair 340s, Convair 440s and Convair 580s followed. The first jets were North Central McDonnell...

4E Convair December 14, 1960" "Flight Test Evaluation Report, Missile 16E Convair April 8, 1961" "Flight Test Evaluation Report, Missile 27E Convair June...

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versions were produced between 1940 and 1944. Experimental Kégresse track on Convair XB-36 Peacemaker Chris Bishop (2002). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII:...

Atlas F / SGS-1 (Atlas-64F) Launch site Vandenberg, SLC-3E Contractor Convair General Dynamics Entered service 29 March 1978 End of mission Deactivated...

mainline flights served Monterey from the 1930s until 2001. In 1966, United Convair 340s flew nonstop to San Francisco (SFO) and direct to Los Angeles (LAX)...

radar-homing Hughes AIM-4 Falcon became the first US guided missile on the Convair F-106. In the early 1940s, British Hurricane and Spitfire pilots wore g-suits...

available Douglas DC-3, TAA was able to acquire the revolutionary pressurised Convair 240. Popular with the travelling public because of its ability to fly above...

SR-7 SR-8 SR-9 SR-10 Airliner SM-6000 T U Vultee models V74 V75 V76 V77 Convair models 105/HW-75 10/HW-80 10-A/HW-90 108 108-1 108-2 108-3 One off designs...

Aircraft, Lockheed Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, North American Aviation, Convair, and Northrop were among the complex of companies in the aerospace industry...

under the auspices of the NASA Lewis Research Center. General Dynamics Convair division was contracted to make modifications to the Atlas booster and...

into Frontier Airlines in 1950. Frontier operated Douglas DC-3, Convair 340, and Convair 580 aircraft with service to Phoenix and direct, no-change-of-plane...

(136 in) 323.6 cm (127 in) 108 2×turbofan Convair 880 US 1959–1962 325 cm (128 in) 110 4×turbojet Convair 990 US 1961–1963 325 cm (128 in) 149 4×turbofan...

F-110B1 was completed, it was intended as a backup for the in-development Convair F-102 Delta Dagger interceptor. However, the difficulties experienced with...

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designed and constructed by Gene Whigham, a retired flight test engineer for Convair. It first flew in 1965. The GW-3 was designed by Whigham as a glider that...

Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2026. "Convair RTV-A-2 Hiroc". www.designation-systems.net. Retrieved 8 August 2025. "Atlas"...

ditch/recover at land bases Boeing B-50 Superfortress (28,000 lb (13,000 kg)) Convair B-36 Peacemaker (72,000 lb (33,000 kg)) Tupolev Tu-4 – reverse-engineered...

Atlas-D OV1  United States Convair/General Dynamics 25.9 m 1,400 No 7 VAFB 1965 1967 Atlas E/F-Agena  United States Convair/General Dynamics/Lockheed 34...

was a surface-to-surface cargo missile developed during the mid 1950s by Convair for use by the United States Army. Intended to deliver supplies to troops...

SR-7 SR-8 SR-9 SR-10 Airliner SM-6000 T U Vultee models V74 V75 V76 V77 Convair models 105/HW-75 10/HW-80 10-A/HW-90 108 108-1 108-2 108-3 One off designs...

Introduced Retired ATR 42 1987[citation needed] 1995[citation needed] Convair CV-580 Jetstream 31 1990 1995 de Havilland Canada Dash 7 1995 Mohawk 298...

1952, Ehricke worked at Bell Aircraft, and then moved to Convair in 1954. While at Convair, he designed the D-1 Centaur, the world's first upper-stage-booster...

crew members on board survived. On 31 July 1960, a Deutsche Flugdienst Convair CV-240 (registered D-BELU) en route from Frankfurt to Rimini experienced...

Canadian Commercial Corp. Toronto, ON, Canada CE Cessna Wichita, KS CF Convair/Consolidated-Vultee Fort Worth, TX CH Christopher Aircraft St. Louis, MO...

to safely continue to its destination. December 9, 1948 Flight 428, a Convair CV-240-2 (NC90665), ran off the runway while taking off from Rancho Boyeros...

aircraft to fly with variable wing sweep. X-6 Convair USAF, AEC 1957 Nuclear Propulsion Not built. The Convair NB-36H experiment, a B-36 modified to carry...

error in bad weather, killing 22 of 92 on board. 28 May 1968 Flight 892, a Convair 990A PK-GJA 'Pajajaran', crashed after takeoff from Bombay, India, killing...

not undergo development. The Sky Scorcher project was proposed by the Convair Division of General Dynamics to the United States Air Force in 1956. The...

marginal cost. Early narrow-body jets like the Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and Convair 880/990 offered significantly more usable lower-deck cargo volume than...