Delivered new to KLM in 1953 as PJ-CVB/PH-CGK and here just acquired by Eastern Canada Stevedoring Co. Ltd. and likely on delivery to Canada where it would have been used to fly maritime personnel from port to port. Strangely it was replaced by a CV240 with the same registration in 1964. This airframe was converted to CV580 and spent many years flying freight in Europe as OO-DHD and EC-GKH.

Photographer: Joseph D Lezark. K25 slide scan. Built 1953 as CV-340 N4815 for Delta, converted to CV-440, retired 1969. Aspen Airways 1970, Sierra Pacific 1974, Music City Airways 1976, Gulf Air Transport 1979. Converted to freighter for General Aviation 1983, reregistered N453GA 1984. Kitty Hawk 1989, Rhoades N153JR 1992, Jet One Express 2005. Crashed 15 March 2012 after take off from San Juan, PR due to engine failure and sank in shallow water.

Final resting place of this piston-Convair from 1953; the airframe had been modified to a -440 version early in its life. - A new airport at Morelia had just been opened in 1984, but XA-KEG was found at the old airport in this derelict condition. - Four years earlier, it was seen still in service for Aero Leon.

Seen just after leaving the gate, this Convair was written off after a crash landing following an engine failure in March, 1968, at Evansville, Indiana.

Departing the gate at CMH.

Crossing the threshold at CMH

Turning off the gate at CVG.