In May 1960, the Convair 880 entered into service with Delta Air Lines (DL) under the slightly updated designation of 880-22m ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1961, the Convair 990 'Coronado' made its inaugural flight. Convair developed this American-built, ...

Seaplanes and jet-powered airplanes seem to come from two different, mutually exclusive worlds. So were any jet-powered ...

Convair, originally Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (it eventually merged with Vultee, creating Convair) conceived of the B-36 having four bomb bays that could carry a variety of weapons ...

As investigators recover victims in the wreckage of an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter, which collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last night, we turn to ...

the aircraft-manufacturing company whipped the first prototype into shape ready for a test run. Designers Ted Hall and Tommy Thompson developed a design they called Convair Model 116 which ...

For Kennedy the advantage had wings—specifically a Convair CV-240 christened Caroline and named for Kennedy’s young daughter. Caroline was converted from a 40-seat airliner to an executive ...