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A restored Convair CV-240 in Western Air Lines livery, at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California. The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring a more modern design, the 240 series was able to make some inroads as a ...
The aircraft was a twin-turboprop Convair CV-580 Airtanker, serial number 129, registered C-FKFY, manufactured in 1953. It was equipped with a fire retardant tank and other standard equipment, but did not carry a cockpit voice recorder, flight data recorder, or a stall warning device.
Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 was a Convair CV-580 (aircraft registration N5825), [2] that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania on January 6, 1969. Eleven of the 28 occupants on board were killed.
The flight, a Convair CV-580, departed Green Bay at around 10:30 a.m. CDT, proceeding to Oshkosh under visual flight rules (VFR). At 10:36:11 a.m. CDT, the air traffic controller at Oshkosh cleared Flight 290 to land. The flight crew's acknowledgment five seconds later was the last communication with North Central Flight 290. [5] [1]
On board the aircraft were two crew members. Captain Bruno Pichelli was 49 years old, and had been hired by Air Tahoma on 19 July 2004, with 2,500 flight hours, of which, 1,337 hours were on the Convair 580. First Officer Michael Gelwicks was 37, was hired by Air Tahoma on 5 May 2004, with 2,488 flight hours, 145 of those were on the Convair ...
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The aircraft was originally certificated as a Convair CV-440 on March 4, 1957, but was modified to include upgraded turbine engines and propellers and re-certificated as a CV-580 on May 25, 1965. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had accumulated a total of 29,173 flight hours. [ 1 ] : (