EC-CNJ_1979_MUC_1600_ARC

 

Photo from the Andreas Rink collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

 

 

München-Riem

Summer 1979

 

EC-CNJ

Convair 990A (30A-6)

30-10-14

Spantax

 

EC-CNJ is coming in to land on Riem’s runway 07, no longer trailing black smoke after Spantax had the engines refitted with low-smoke combustion chambers.

 

Note the three modern Munich landmarks in the background: the Hypo building nearing completion (inaugurated in November 1981, today known as HVB Tower), the Arabella Building (finished in 1969) and the Olympic Tower (opened in 1968).

 

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 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 slide (unknown brand).

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