EC-CNJ_1977-06-08_MUC_1200_SR

 

Photo taken by Stefan Röhrich.

 

 

München-Riem

1977-06-08 (8 June 1977)

 

EC-CNJ

Convair 990A (30A-6)

30-10-14

Spantax

 

EC-CNJ is lined up for take-off on runway 25. Only 37 CV-990s were manufactured, and Spantax made sure that we would regularly see this rare type at Riem in the 1970s and into the 1980s. We called them Coronados (as Swissair had dubbed their CV-990s) - and this one is inscribed "Coronado" on the tail as an ex-Swissair aircraft.

 

Delivered to Swissair Delivery on 3 August 1962. Leased to Ghana Airways in 1964. Went on to Spantax on 7 June 1975 and wfu at PMI in March 1981, broken up there in 1991. (Source: planelogger.com)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/EC-CNJ/753211

 

This airframe as HB-ICE leased to Ghana Airways at LHR in May 1964:

abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1064597

 

HB-ICE with Swissair at ZRH ca. late 1960s (bare metal finish):

www.flickr.com/photos/23032926@N05/8386713284

 

HB-ICE with Swissair at LHR in September 1971:

www.airhistory.net/photos/0021455.jpg

 

EC-CNJ stored at PMI in June 1988 (Spantax titles removed):

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/28055_1083040491.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.

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