With history going back to 1948 with Trans Australian Airlines (VH-TAS), this CV240 had later registrations AP-AHS (Pakistan Internal Airlines), PH-NLP and PH-EUT (Fokker operating for Euravia), N559R (Beldex Corp) and N396GC (Faberge Inc). Faberge allowed free use of the aircraft to retired actor Cary Grant when he became a creative consultant with the company in 1970. Later stored, it became a project for California Air Heritage Foundation in 2010 which later floundered. The fuselage is currently stored at Shafter - Minter Field at the time of uploading.

Slide traded with Don Spering in 1972.

Coming out of maintenance here in Los Angeles, this early Convairliner crashed on take-off from Palm Springs on a Las Vegas - Palm Springs - San Diego service on 13 February 1958. The right wing leading edge came off. The aircraft landed in the desert at high speed and hit some boulders. It caught fire and some of the 18 passengers were seriously injured. Photo from: SFO Museum

ex VH-TAR Trans Australian. Converted by General Dynamics to a 600 series in 1966 (photographer not known)

The aircraft was delivered to the USAF as T-29C 52-1096 in September 1953, it was converted to AC-131A in April 1959 then AT-29C in May 1960, and re-designated ET-29C in 1962. It passed to the FAA as N244 in September 1962, re-registered N247 in September 1963 and then N28 in November 1963, N254 in 1966 and lastly to N94 in 1973. Restored to the USAF as 52-1096 in April 1977 but offered for sale and acquired by Time Aviation Services as N45786 in August that year. The last confirmed sighting at Tucson was in 1986 and thought scrapped around the time the registration was cancelled in July 1988.

originally delivered to Garuda in 1950 - still as a CV-240. To General Dynamics Corp. as N94294 in 1964. Converted to CV-600 in 1965 and delivered to Central Airlines in December 1965. To Frontier in 1967 and back to Indonesia in 1970 (photographer not known)

Ex-Suelawah. Photo by Steve Kraus. Previously ET-T-20 (Ethiopian), ET-AAV, N74857, PK-RCQ and N74857 (as seen here) and later N128AJ

w/o 30 May1998 Aguadilla-Borinquen Airport (P.R.) - damaged on a training flight when pilot selected gear-up instead of flaps down on landing..

w/o 24 September 1998 San Juan - crashed into mangroves shortly after takeoff due to engine failure

Ex-USAF 52-1092. To the FAA 1963 as N252, N247, N250 and then N95 in 1973. To N45787 1977, scrapped at Tucson, AZ.

Withdrawn to Davis Monthan in June 1975 and seen in the Desert Air Parts scrapyard. Registered as N1342K in September 1989 to a Scottsdale AZ. based owner but uncertain if it ever flew as such? . Scrapped.

Ex PH-TEE Jan Steen of KLM and HB-IRY Luzern of Swissair. Photo taken at Ithaca. Mohawk moved its base to Utica - Oneida County Airport reportedly in 1958. N1012C was in the fleet until 1967. Photo by: Hadley Smith / Smithsonian Institution

Photographer unknown - ex USAF 51-5165

Retired to MASDC on 7 January 1975.