Paulus Potter did not gain altitude after take-off from Rwy 05, now short Rwy 04, and crashed through the airport perimeter fence at Schipholweg, near today's police aviation base. It was a sunny Whit Monday and two girls among the specators were killed. Photo by: Harry Pot / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

owned by Grubbs Aviation Inc

emergency landing 30 June 1997 at San Juan. Engine failure after take-off - ended up lying at the beach, written off

Believed to be operated by Miami Air Charter.

Built 1948. To KLM -5 Nov.1948, initially as PH-TED, later PH-CED. To Deutsche Flugdienst as D-BESI -9 Dec.1957, to Condor Flugdienst -1 Nov.1961. Sold 30 Oct.1962, later as N2403Z to Ozark Airlines and as N8329C with Mohawk Airlines and several subsequent operators, the last being Asiatic International Airways, operating out of Singapore-Seletar. While flying a local test flight out of there on 17 Sept.1975, it suffered engine failure and ditched in the water of the Straits of Johore, some 400m short of the Seletar runway, to which it was trying to return. Marks N8329C cancelled 19 Dec.1975.

This early Convair 240 flew with American Airlines from December 1948 - October 1959 as N94204.. Initially christened "Flagship Detroit", the aircraft was later named " Mohawk, Chapultepec Castle and West Point". Pictured with R L Polk & Co (a data aggregator for he automotive industry, insurance companies, and related businesses) 1967 - 72, the aircraft was sold to American Velodur Metal as N7040 in 1972. Re-registered N10AV in 1973, it was written off after losing power over a populated area of Hyannis, MA and attempting a forced landing on a beach on April 9. 1977.

When the Confederate Air Force, as it was then styled, moved its headquarters to Midland, TX., this aircraft was relocated to the Museum of Aviation at Warner Robins, Georgia, but only the nose section exists there now.

Another early photo of this CV-240, this time in colour at the new LAS airport, which took over the name McCarran Field on 19 December 1948. Old McCarran Field became Nellis AFB in 1950. McCarran International Airport was renamed Harry Reid IAP in 2021. Photo from: Axis & Allies Paintworks

San Diego in the old days. The old terminal stood on the north side of the airport. This early CV-240 was delivered in June 1948 and it must be still fairly new here, given the NC registration. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum

From 513 TAW.

delivered 1953 as 51-7910 to the USAF. Sold in 1979 to Ascher Ward. Later registered N155PA. Crashed due to engine failure at Trenton-Mercer County Airport NJ 19 Jun 1985. - photographer unknown

In storage alongside N74853, also formerly operated by Wright Air Lines.