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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Your Sunday Morning Turboprop Noise

A Convair-5800:



The base aircraft type for the -5800, the C-131, served in the U.S. armed forces for forty years.
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seafury said...

Ahh Convairs. I'll start at the beginning first airline ride, age 8 North Central airlines Convair 580. as a CAP cadet in 1973, a Convair C131, from Milwaukee to Patrick AFB in FL. Before joining the Army, I worked as a loader for a small cargo airline in Milwaukee that operated a Fairchild F27 and we did ground handling for a number of night cargo operators. Beech 18's Cessna 207's DC-3's but our main job was loading Convair 600's for SMB Stage Lines on an emery Air freight contract. Got to ride the jump seat from MKE to BNA. (Nashville TN) My favorite prop airliner.
The Convair 5800 stretch seemed to work well enough but it's time had past. Not many operators
could afford them and the time for small night cargo airlines was rapidly coming to an end. Still a few in the Caribbean, and Canada. not sure if Kelowna Flightcraft still operates them. It's a shame though. Nice airplane.

4/30/2023 11:05 AM
Old NFO said...

I was a bit confused as the C-131 was powered by a pair of R-2800s, until I looked it up. It's a mod off the 131! And like many others, went from recip to turboprop. It's obviously been hard used over the years.

4/30/2023 4:14 PM

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