280a. PH-CGD 1 Convair CV.440 Martins Air Charter LPL 01MAY64

            Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 11-Feb-15, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 05-Oct-23.

Evidence on the nose of it's former name with KLM, "Pieter Brueghel".

This aircraft was built as a Convair 340 and delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as PH-TGD in Sep-53.  It was re-registered PH-CGD in Apr-54 and converted to Convair 440 standard (without the radar) in late 1963.  It was sold to Martins Air Charter as PH-CGD in Jan-64.

It was wet-leased to Linjeflyg in Dec-64 and returned to MAC in Apr-65.  In Apr-66 it was again converted, this time to Convair 640 standard with Rolls Royce Dart turboprops.  It was sold in the USA as N111TA in Jul-71 to Omni International Corporation and started a second career as a 'Corporate' aircraft.

It changed owners many times over the next 11 years (including 3 years with Jerry Lee Lewis - it was repossessed, presumably he couldn't keep up the payments...) until it was bought by Wright Air Lines in Feb-82.  It was re-registered by them in Jun-83 becoming N861FW.

In Aug-88 it was bought by Canada West Air as C-GCWY and leased to North Canada Air in Aug-90.  It was sold back in the USA in Sep-93, to Century Airlines as N640CM.  The aircraft was sold to Aeronaves TSM (Mexico) as XA-URL in Oct-12 and converted to a freighter with a main-deck cargo door.

There is online photo evidence that it was still in service in early 2018 but it was permanently retired at Saltillo, Mexico in late 2018 after an incredible 65 years in service.  Updated 05-Oct-23.

Taken on: May 1, 1964

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