Hello all. I have some photos to share with those of you who have posted in the past about the Convair at Camariloo Airport. Heres some background and photos.
She is a CV240 and was delivered as VH-TAS to Trans-Australia Airlines ("James Cook") oct.'48. Consider that, for a minute. In 1956 it went to Pakistan Int'l Airlines (AP-AHS). It went Dutch as PH-NLP for Fokker (operated for Euravia) and came home as N559R for Beldex Corporation (july'60). It was reregistered as N396CG for Faberge Inc in sep.'70 and flew for movie star Cary Grant. It went thru various owners, incl Howard Hughes in the 1970s. It was stored in Pontiac,MI 1982-1986. C&M Airways,TX bought it in aug.'89, but it was registered to another owner a few months later… It was leased by Renown Aviation, as a freighter, in the early 1990s. Current Owner has had it at camarillo airport since the mid 90's.
We now are trying to sell her, parts out of her or display her at the entrance to the airport. Any one with questions, please post. Anyone interested or have any ideas for her, let me know, Ill pass it on for discussion over here. We're trying to raise interest in the aircraft or find a new group of volunteers to restore her, hopefully into a museum or tourst exhibit here at Camarillo Airport. Making her fly would cost too much money for us. Its a sad sad sad fact but true! The foundation does not have enough money to do much work on her at all, unless the inside gets restored enough to charge for admission to make money for restoration. So lets see the volunteers throw there hands up to save her!
Donations are appreciated. If we had enough donated we could restore her to flight condition, but you WIXers would have to help spread the word to help save her from being static permanently!
Cary Grants Chair!
Custom 8 Track Rack!!!!
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