On June 24, 1969, Japan Air Lines Flight 90, a CV-880-22M-3 (JA8028, Kikyo), crashed on takeoff from Grant County Airport, Washington, killing three of the five crew members. The …

Sep 19, 2022 · The 880 was the fastest of the first-generation jet airliners. We could cruise it at Mach .85 and the Mmo was .88. Some thought that is where Convair came up with the …

Jun 14, 2024 · The Convair 880 was a narrowbody jetliner produced to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 in the mid-1950s. The aircraft performed its first flight in January 1959 …

Designed to contest with narrow body airliners such as Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, the Convair 880 is an American single-aisle jetliner manufactured by Convair. It is compact in size …

Convair Cv-880, N815AJ formerly of TWA is the last intact 880 at the Mojave Airport on September 10, 2001. Its Convair construction number is 22-00-35. It was delivered to TWA as …

The Convair 880, built with a narrow, short fuselage, was the fastest four-engine commercial jet until the Boeing 747. Delta's first Convair 880 set a new coast-to-coast commercial speed …

Aug 15, 2019 · Watch an old Convair CV-880 take off in all of its four engine smokey glory. These old planes were never as popular as Boeing or Airbus models. Cool stuff.

Four crew members took off from Simón Bolivar International Airport on November 3, 1980, on a training flight to Panama. Soon after take-off, the plane plummeted and crashed at the end of …

Model 22 CV-880 . Airliner CV 990 . Passengers . 96 or 121 . Crew . 3 . Propulsion System . 4 Turbofan Engines . Engine Type . General Electric CJ805-23 (A) First Flight . January 24/1961 …

Dec 19, 2020 · By most accounts, the CV-880 was a complete failure. Despite this, many of the new technologies that were pioneered on both the Convair 880 and 990, were replicated on …