CF-CUX Convair
240-3
(c/n 96)
This
rendering of a Canadian Pacific CVAC 240 (from the Jennifer Gradidge
collection) is somewhat
better than that for
its sister ship CF-CUW. Even better, though is the
rare color below shot of the
same machine taken by Dave Parent during a refueling stop at Sandspit,
BC in 1956. Dave had
flown on the aircraft from
Vancouver to Whitehorse. Color shots of CPAL Convairs are rare
indeed!
This aircraft was also ex
Continental Airlines, having been delivered
in 1948 as N90847. The tail
titling
has had the 'Continental' replaced with 'Convair Liner' It, too,
went to TOA Airways in Japan,
(as
JA5131) but has survived, I believe as an
exhibit in the Tokyo Amusement Center.