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Convair CV-580 N5835 in 1976, one of five aircraft of this type, recently retired from Allegheny, pending sale to Commuter Airlines The company began with a single Piper Aztec and over the years added Piper PA-31 Navajo/ Navajo Chieftains , Beechcraft Model 18s and of course the three Dumod Liners , before expanding with Swearingen Metroliners ...
In 1982 Metro purchased fourteen (14) Convair 580 aircraft from the original Frontier Airlines. These 50 passenger twin turboprops were then used to initiate the first ever American Eagle service via a new code sharing passenger feed agreement with American Airlines. The Convair 580 aircraft were operated by the Metroflight Airlines division ...
DC-3 at Chicago O'Hare 1962 Convair 580 at Columbus 1968. The airline was founded as Turner Airlines in 1948; it was based at Weir Cook Airport (now Indianapolis International Airport) in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lake Central's network in the 1950s extended from Chicago to Pittsburgh; in August 1953 it had scheduled flights to 21 airports, and in ...
The flight was operated using a Convair CV-580 that was originally certificated as a Convair CV-440 on July 11, 1967, but was modified to include upgraded turbine engines and propellers and re-certificated as a CV-580. The aircraft had accumulated a total of 27,285 flight hours at the time of the accident. [1]
The aircraft involved was a Convair CV-580 (registration N2045), c/n 369, which Convair had completed as a CV-440 Metropolitan on October 8, 1956. It was converted to a standard CV-580 in July 1968. As a CV-580, it entered service with North Central Airlines on August 9, 1968. [2]: Appendix C The crash destroyed the aircraft. [2]: 6
From November, 1986 through September, 1988, Sierra Pacific operated two Convair 580 aircraft for Trans-Colorado Airlines which in turn was operating as Continental Express on behalf of Continental Airlines. The aircraft flew scheduled Continental Express flights from Denver to several cities in Colorado and Wyoming.
A Convair 580 of IFL Group at Miami International Airport in 2012. The IFL Group fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2024): [2] 5 ATR 72-600F. N701FE; N702FE ...
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]: