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basis - September 1, 1959 to December 1959 Leased to Queensland Airlines to cover late delivery of F.27 - March 1960 Withdrawn from Ansett-A.N.A. service - May 1962 Sold to Allegheny Airlines Inc - June, 1962 Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to San Francisco - June 1, 1962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Canadian Aircraft Register as C-FKFL - April 1997 Leased to Air Monarch Cargo, Mexico City - November 1997 to June 2000 Withdrawn from use and stored at Kelowna's Ellison Field Planned to convert to freighter with large freight door or water bomber Cancelled from the Canadian Aircraft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. |