Mohawk Airlines Convair 240-14   N 6632C         (c/n  127)

                                          

                                                 In 1955, in response to Allegheny Airlines' purchase of Martin 2-0-2s, Mohawk acquired a
                                                 fleet of Convair 240s from Civil Air Transport, the Nationalist Chinese airline on Taiwan.
                                                 Actually, these machines had been delivered in 1949 to Central Air Transport Corporation
                                                 in mainland China, but had to relocate hurriedly to Hong Kong when the Communists took
                                                 over shortly thereafter.  Its original registration was XT-604.   When Mohawk operated it
                                                 they named it 'Air Chief Nanticoke' (where did they get those names?) and eventually re-
                                                 registered it as N1015C   It finally wound  up with the U.S. Department of the Interior as
                                                 N1015G and was damaged beyond repair after a belly landing at Buhl, Idaho in May
                                                 of 1971.
                                                 Below:   This early model 0 machine had been purchased by Mohawk in April of 1961
                                                 from American Airlines where it had been N94202.
                                                 My shot shows it at LAX in May just after it had been overhauled by Western Air Lines.                          
                                       
                                                 Mohawk Airlines Convair 240-0   N 1015C                             (c/n  5)