A pair of my favorite aircraft at their Miami base. N5605 is the aircraft parked behind.

In CMH for a charter, the color on this 990 is a very reddish orange. Other regns were N5624 and N990E.

No airline operated Convair 990s to Australia so the smoky arrival of N5615 was greeted with much excitement by aviation enthusiasts. It was on a charter flight that commenced in Boston and included overflights of the North and South Poles and a landing at McMurdo in Antarctica. The flight was a fundraiser for the Richard E Byrd Polar Centre in Boston (hence the spelling of the aircraft name). An attempt to fly the same route in 1970 was scuttled when the US Navy, out of safety concerns, refused permission to land at McMurdo.

Modern Air Transport had a base at Berlin Tegel and three of their eight Coronados were at LGW for a West Germany-England soccer match that wet day. The 1973 oil crisis was a blow for these thirsty jets, not helped by rules to fly at a fuel-inefficient height of 10,000ft in the Allied air corridors over East Germany. Modern hoped to switch to DC-8s and DC-9s but ceased flying in 1975. N5624 went to Nomads as N990E, then Galaxy. Wfu at FLL in 12.85, to Christ is the Answer in 1990 - obviously not as scrapped 4.91

Delivered new to American in January 1963. Operated by Modern Air from December 1970 until 1976.

Delivered new to American Airlines in February 1962 as N5607. Operated by Modern AT from April 1967 until August 1975. Here it smokes in on finals to Miami on a Winter sunshine charter.