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    The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas...
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    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...
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    The Convair CV-240 was an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3...
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    from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair CV-240 family of airliners. This was one of the last radial engined aircraft in...
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  • Thumbnail for 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash
    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...
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    The 1953 Sabena Convair CV-240 crash occurred on 14 October 1953 when a Sabena Convair CV-240 crashed 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Frankfurt, West Germany...
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    The 1977 Aviateca Convair 240 airplane crash was a scheduled Aviateca passenger flight that crashed near Guatemala City, Guatemala on April 27, 1977....
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    American Airlines Flight 476 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    Laguardia Airport in New York City, New York. On August 4, 1955, the Convair CV-240-0 crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Fort Leonard Wood...
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    Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    List of accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-440 N4819C Bishop, California". Retrieved 11 October...
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    Partnair Flight 394 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    parts. The accident aircraft, registered as LN-PAA, was a 36-year-old Convair CV-580 operated by the Norwegian charter airline Partnair. The aircraft was...
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    Northeast Airlines Flight 258 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    for 3 Years" New York Times Aug 17, 1958 link "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240-2 N90670 Nantucket Memorial Airport, MA (ACK)". aviation-safety.net...
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    Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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    Lufthansa Flight 005 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    slightly under the maximum of 22,544 kilograms (24.851 short tons). The Convair CV-440 was fueled with 3,200 litres (850 US gal) of aviation gasoline, sufficient...
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    North Central Airlines Flight 458 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    : 3–5  The aircraft involved was a Convair CV-580 (registration N2045), c/n 369, which Convair had completed as a CV-440 Metropolitan on October 8, 1956...
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    Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 was a Convair CV-580 (aircraft registration N5825), that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in...
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    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...
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    Allegheny Airlines Flight 736 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    736 was operated using a Convair CV-580 (registration number N5802). The aircraft was originally certificated as a Convair CV-440 on March 4, 1957, but...
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  • 1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    using a replacement crew sent from Chicago to Green Bay. The flight, a Convair CV-580, departed Green Bay at around 10:30 a.m. CDT, proceeding to Oshkosh...
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    On 31 July 2010, a Convair CV-580 Airtanker aircraft operated by Conair Aviation crashed while on a firefighting mission near Lytton, British Columbia...
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    American Airlines Flight 6780 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    American Airlines Flight 6780, the first fatal crash of a Convair 240, occurred on January 22, 1952. The twin-propeller aircraft was on the routing...
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  • maintenance and upgrades on the Convair CV-240 family, for which it owns the type certificate. KF Aerospace converts existing Convair CV-580s to the updated CV5800...
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    in Pretoria plane crash". Retrieved 2018-08-07. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-340 ZS-BRV Pretoria-Wonderboom Airport (PRY)". Aviation Safety Network...
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    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...
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    American Airlines Flight 711 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    one of them. On March 20, 1955, the aircraft operating the service, a Convair CV-240-0, registration N94234, crashed into a muddy field on approach to land...
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    The Canadair CL-66 was a turboprop version of the civilian Convair CV-440 Metropolitan. The CC-109 Cosmopolitan or "Cosmo" in RCAF service became the standard...
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    Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    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...
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    American Airlines Flight 723 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    Massachusetts, to Chicago Midway Airport in Illinois. On September 16, 1953, a Convair 240 propliner flying this route crashed while attempting to land at Albany...
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    Air Tahoma Flight 185 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    NTSB/AAR-06/03. Retrieved 2020-03-31. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-580 N586P Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, KY (CVG)". aviation-safety...
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    Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era CASA C-207 Azor Convair CV-240 family Douglas DC-3 Martin 4-0-4 Vickers VC.1 Viking Stroud, John (September...
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    Siddeley Andover Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Convair CV-240 family Fairchild Hiller FH-227 Fokker F27 Handley Page Herald NAMC YS-11...
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