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Convair CV-440-80 Metropolitan (404)

 

 
Date: 09/1974

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this airframe wears the first of three color schemes of Delta Air Transport. Delivered at Antwerp on May 27 1972 as OO-TVG and re-registered on July 17 1973, it was operational till March 1977 and baptized "guy franzen". Here seen at its home base in front of the control tower during an early morning

Date: 03/02/1975

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: another shot taken at  Antwerp airport.

Date: 01/1974

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: lovely vintage scenery with two DC6's of the same carrier in the back.

Date: 14/02/1976

Location: AMS/EHAM

Photo: Thomas Stunkel

Description: second color scheme, adopted by January 1976.

Date: 08/1976

Location: DUS/EDDS

Photo: Thomas Stunkel

Description: seen six months later in the same livery on the run from Brussels to Dusseldorf.

Date: 01/1977

Location: DUS/EDDL

Photo: Arno Janssen

Description: after the summer season it was resprayed in the third color scheme, here seen such once more at Dusseldorf airport.

Date: 03/1977

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: seen devoid of titles, awaiting its fate which would be a sale to the States (see below).

Date: 03/1977

Location: ANR/EBAW

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: it was cancelled from the Belgian register on March 7 1977 to "N44825", and left two days later for the States to its new operator American Inter Island Airways, still wearing the last color scheme of DAT.

 

Belgian register