Built 1953 as CV-340-38 for KLM as PH-TGF, re-registered to PH-CGF in 1954 and converted to CV-440. Later N157W and N4406 Mohawk Airlines and Lake Central Airlines (converted to CV-580 in August 1967, N5839 Allegheny Airlines, Mountain West Airlines, and Sierra Pacific Airlines before sold to Nor-Fly Charter December 1980. January 1985 to Partnair, Late 1989 wfu. July 1991 C-FKFJ Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter, September 1994 CS-TMG Agroar, November 1996 G-FKFJ Kelowna (returned), July 2003 ZK-KFJ Air Freight NZ until wfu at Auckland August 2017 and later broken up there.

This photo was taken three months after Partnair ceased operations following the mid-air disintegration of LN-PAA off the coast of Denmark 8 September 1989.

LN-BWN seen here at Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) in 1982. Nor-fly Charter of Norway operated a Saturday flight from LBA to Haugesund for the tour operator Visit Norway. Scanned from an original photograph, photographer unknown.

Operated by Norrønafly. Often incorrectly quoted as c/n 3696 (also officially), which was in fact destroyed in a mid-air collision on 1 Dec 1943. Photographer unknown

Delivery date was September 25, 1953. Built as CV340, cvt'd - CV440, cvt'd - CV580.

K25 slide scan. Built as 1953 as CV-340 PH-TGF for KLM. Converted to CV-440 as PH-CGF 1964. Mohawk N4406 1964. Lake Central N73159 1967, converted to CV-580. Merged into Allegheny as N5839 1968. Mountainwest 1976, renamed Sierra Pacific 1978. Nor Fly LN-BWN 1980, Partnair 1985. Kelowna C-FKFJ 1991, Trans Provincial 1992, All Canada Express C-GKFJ 1994, Agroar CS-TMG 1994, Kelowna 1996, Pullmann Express 1996, Air Freight NZ ZK-KFJ 2003. Active until at least 2016.

Ex-N5839, N73159, N4406, N157W, PH-CGF, PH-TGF. Later C-GKFJ, CS-TMG, C-GKFJ, ZK-KFJ

Former Air Cargo Transport (Oslo) aircraft. Often incorrectly quoted (also officially) as c/n 3696, which was in fact destroyed in a mid-air collision on 1 Dec 1943. Photographer unknown

Delivered to KLM in September 1953 as PH-TGF. Later to various owenrs as PH-CGF, N157W, N4406, N73159, N5839, LN-BWN, C-GKFJ, CS-TMG and ZK-KFJ. Reportedly still active at the time of the upload, as ZK-KFJ with Air Freight NZ.

Approaching the apron after landing on runway 06.

Here is LN-BWN just a few months after my LHR shot, now in the colours of Partnair, again a very smart livery. Sold to Kelowna as C-GKFJ in 6.91 and nowadays current with Air Freight NZ as ZK-KFJ

First serving KLM, Mohawk and Lake Central as a piston Convair, this aircraft was modified to CV-580 configuration in 6.67 and is seen here on a rare visit to Heathrow having joined the Norwegian carrier in 11.80