The aircraft had been used as a freighter by Air Chathams but was withdrawn from use in 2008 and used as a spares source to support the operation of the rest of their Convair 580 fleet. In January 2014 it was removed by road to a local recycling centre and deleted from the NZ register the same month.

This Metro had the Swearingen trade-plate N2707D before being delivered to the UK in March 1988 as G-BOJN. The Czech registration OY-CHD was not taken up and the aircraft was bought back by Fairchild in March 1990 and re-registered N2707D. It was sold in New Zealand later that year and became ZK-NSS with Air Nelson. On 27 April 2016 it was re-registered as ZK-CID(3) to Air Chathams. In 2024 it was acquired by Sharp Airlines and ferried to Essendon pending re-registration in Australia. It still wears the Air Chathams logo on the fin, but not the airline's titles.

Sold in Australia as VH-CPT in April 1975. Bob Kerr photo

Previously N3435, N5826, ZS-KFA, C-GKFA and HZ-SN11. Broken up, unknown date/location.

The aircraft had been used as a freighter by Air Chathams but was withdrawn from use in 2008 and used as a spares source to support the operation of the rest of their Convair 580 fleet. In January 2014 the aircraft was removed by road to a local recycling centre and removed from the NZ register the same month.

Ex ZK-NSS, registered 24th Apr 2016