Delivered to Iberia in March 1957 as EC-WMT and re-registered as EC-AMT in the same month. Leased to Lineas Aereas Guinea Equitorial 1971-1977 and sold as N819TA in 1979. Registered as XA-JIR with Interstatal in July 1979 and returned to N819TA with Interstate Aviation in 1985. Leased to Air Columbus (USA) from 1987-1988 and sold as XA-RAN in July 1988. Seized by authorities in El Paso, returned to N819TA and remained stored there. Registered N690TA to Commercial Aircraft Services in 2002 but remained in store wearing N819TA. scrapped by 2016

It had reportedly been bought by Interstate Aviation in Oct 84 and re-registered N819TA. It then went to Air Columbus (as N818TA) circa 1987. Became XA-RAN in Jan 89 and N819TA again in Aug 98.

I photographed this brand new Metropolitan from the old ground enclosure above the road tunnel in Heathrow Central, aged 12 with my first camera. The original paint scheme applied in the Convair factory and'equipado con radar' from new to avoid the worst weather on the way to your Spanish Holiday

Ex EC-AMT of Iberia

The aircraft is being worked on in the Iberia hangar. I saw this aircraft three years later at Miami by which time it was N819TA.