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    converted to Convair 580s with Allison turbo props. Convair CV-580 Conversion from Convair CV-340 (Allison Prop-Jet Convair 340) or CV-440 aircraft with...
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    August 2016. "Airframe Dossier – Convair CV-240/340/440/580/600/640 / C-131 / R4Y / T-29, s/n 54-2810 USAF, c/n 340-207". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals...
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    Network "Aircraft Accident Report North Central Airlines, Inc., Allison Convair 340/440 (CV-580), N90858, and Air Wisconsin, Inc., DHC-6, N4043B, Near Appleton...
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    aircraft for amateur construction. The aircraft was designed by former Convair, Ryan Aircraft and General Dynamics aeronautical engineer William Samuel...
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    Cold War–era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress replaced the Convair B-36 Peacemaker. Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively...
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    Board "Aircraft Accident Report North Central Airlines, Inc., Allison Convair 340/440 (CV-580), N90858, and Air Wisconsin, Inc., DHC-6, N4043B, Near Appleton...
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  • become operational. Nevertheless, in 1953, Luftag placed orders for four Convair CV-340 and four Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellations aircraft and set up a...
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  • bomber Convair 240/340/440 short-haul airliners Convair CV-540/580/600/640/5800 short-haul turboprop airliners Convair CV-880 four-jet airliner Convair CV-990...
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    MD-11, and previously for DC-10, KC-10 were built by General Dynamics' Convair Division in San Diego, which were transported by barge to Long Beach Harbor...
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    aircraft, such as the British-built Vickers Viscount and the U.S.-built Convair CV-440. Reportedly, the Caravelle proved to be a highly reliable airliner during...
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    McDonnell Douglas, in 1997. Other manufacturers, such as Lockheed Martin and Convair in the United States, and British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) and Fokker...
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  • 1961: First U.S. airline flight hijacked to Cuba. A National Airlines Convair 440 flight from Marathon, Florida, to Key West was hijacked by a man carrying...
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    F-94 Starfire and tried the approach again, naming the Delta 88 after the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger. All 1965 Olds models featured all new styling and engineering...
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  • after the war. Among those were the Douglas DC-3, the Convair 240 and the Convair 340. The Convairs were Continental's first pressurized airliners. The...
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  • October Convair YB-58 Hustler, 55-0669, crashes 7 miles (11 km) west of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Convair pilot Everett L. Wheeler, and Convair flight...
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  • Lufthansa Flight 181 D-ABYB Boeing 747-130 Lufthansa Flight 540 D-ACAT Convair CV-440 Metropolitan Lufthansa Flight 005 D-ALAK Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation...
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    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...
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    insufficient power and aerodynamic problems with transonic drag, as well as Convair's experience with their F-102, had led to a redesign of the fuselage to...
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    Network. 14 August 1972. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Convair-990)". Aviation Safety Network. 3 December 1972. Retrieved 27 May 2013...
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  • Prototype Convair XB-36 Peacemaker 42-13570, on a test flight out of Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas with two test pilots, seven Convair flight test...
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    reports indicate the US captured aircraft were flown or shipped to the US. Convair allegedly acquired one for evaluation at the Naval Air Station Patuxent...
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    June 1954 Convair CV-240-4 Geneva–London Crew negligence, fuel exhaustion, water ditching HB-IMD Shannon Airport 15 July 1956 Convair CV-440-11 San Diego–New...
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    September 2022. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ET-AMI Kombolcha". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 9 September 2022. Ranter, Harro...
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  • March 13 (category CS1 Estonian-language sources (et))
    February 2020. "Aircraft Accident Report - Sierra Pacific Airlines, Inc., Convair 340/440, N4819C, Near Bishop, California, March 13, 1974" (PDF). National Transportation...
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  • Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, soon unofficially, and later officially, known as Convair. The Aichi Clock and Electric Company Ltd. forms a separate firm, Aichi...
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    Unitatis redintegratio, the next day. Linjeflyg Flight 277, a twin-engine Convair CV-340 airplane, struck electric power lines as it was making its approach...
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  • arrest the hijacker. March 13 – Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802, a Convair CV-440 (registration N4819C) chartered by Wolper Productions, crashes in darkness...
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