VH-BZM. Convair CV-440-61. c/n 465.


Construction completed - September 16, 1957

Sold to Ansett Airways for $US 750,000

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-BZM - July 23, 1957

Departed San Diego on delivery flight to Melbourne - October 25, 1957

Arrived Melbourne at conclusion of delivery flight - October 30, 1957

Delivery route: San Francisco-Honolulu-Canton Island-Tontouta-Brisbane-Melbourne

Chartered by Butler Air Transport to operate some services - 1958

Chartered by Queensland Airlines on an ad-hoc basis - September 1, 1959 to December 1959

Leased to Queensland Airlines to cover late delivery of F.27 - March 1960

Withdrawn from Ansett-A.N.A. service - May 1962

Sold to Allegheny Airlines Inc - June, 1962

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to San Francisco - June 1, 1962

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 5, 1962

Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register as N8422H - June 5, 1962

Registered to Allegheny Airlines

Converted to CV-580 standard by Pacific Airmotive Corp - October 20, 1967 to January, 1968

Delivered to Allegheny Airlines - January 20, 1968

Regregistered as N5835

Sold to Commuter Airlines Inc - July 28, 1978

Leased to Freedom Airlines - September 7, 1982

Sold to Air Ontario - October 14, 1984

Entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register as C-GGWH

Leased to Air Toronto - April 1988

Leased to Canair Cargo Ltd - November 1991 to December 1993

Sold to Kelowna Flightcraft Air Charter - January 1994

Leased to Fieldair Air Freight N.Z. - February 2, 1994

Entered onto the New Zealand Aircraft Register as ZK-JDQ

Cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft Register - March 8, 1994

Returned to Kelowna at end of lease - December 24, 1996

Entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register as C-FKFL - April 1997

Leased to Air Monarch Cargo, Mexico City - November 1997 to June 2000

Withdrawn from use and stored at Kelowna's Ellison Field

Planned to convert to freighter with large freight door or water bomber

Cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft Register - November 29, 2002

Leased to Conair - December 2002

Entered onto the Canadian Aircraft Register as C-FKFL - December 5, 2002

Current status - ?


VH-BZM. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

VH-BZM. Ansett-A.N.A. - in the Ansett livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

N8422H. Allegheny - in the full livery, location and date unknown.

N5835. Allegheny - in the full livery at unknown airport, June 1970.

N5835. Allegheny - in the basic livery with titles at Pittsburg Airport, May 1978.

N5835. Freedom Airlines - in the full livery at unknown airport, July 1981.

C-GGWH. Air Ontario - in the new livery at Atlantic City, NJ, September 1987.

C-GGWH. Canair - in Air Ontario livery at Toronto Airport, October 1993.

C-GGWH. Canair - in basic Air Ontario livery without titles at Auckland Airport, March 1994.

ZK-JDQ. Fieldair - in basic Air Ontario livery without titles at Auckland Airport, January 1995.

C-FKFL. Air Monarch - in basic Kelowna livery at Ellison Field, November 1997.

C-FKFL. Air Monarch - in basic Kelowna livery at Mexico City Airport, February 2000.

C-FKFL. Conair - in full livery at Abottsford Airport, June 2005.

C-FKFL. Conair - in full livery at Abottsford Airport, August 2005.