#Convair Model 48

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01_00094907 General Dynamics/Convair Charger Model 48 by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

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23_0029579 Convair Negative Image by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: 87012877 :Piction ID--Convair Model 48 Charger concept 01/29/1964---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a grant from NEH: NEH and the San Diego Air and Space Museum

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airsLLide No. 7600: C-GXKR, Lockheed L-749A Constellation, Conifair, Mont-Joli Regionale, June 5, 1992.

Quebec's Conifair had a wide business model: It operated cargo and passenger charters with a mix of Douglas and Convair props, but its initial purpose was to fly spraying missions fighting a budworms plague in Quebec's forests. It started with two ex US Air Force C-121A Connies turned into sprayers, numbered Sprayer 1 and 2, and later switched to two Douglas DC-4s, Sprayers 16, and 18.

Both Constellations were retired from their pesticide missions around 1983/84, and C-GXKR remained parked idle and left to an uncertain future on the small airport of Mont-Joli. Her residential address known, it was a must to pay her a visit, even though that resulted in a fairly long drive North from Montreal for just a single plane. But hey, what a beauty she still was after eight years on the ground.

And to add some toping to the cake, the story of Conifair's two Connies has a happy end as both planes finally found buyers: Tanker 1 was the first lucky gal, when she was bought by Vern Raburn's 'Constellation Group' and restored to flying condition, becoming the famous MATS Connie N494TW / 48-0609 (her original military serial on delivery back in 1948). She toured the airshow circuit for some time - a picture or two of her will follow soon - before being sold to South Korea and put on display on Jeju Island.

Tanker 2 first followed her sister to Avra Valley, AZ, and had to watch as former Tanker 1 got lovingly restored to her pristine condition. She almost ended up as spare parts donor, but then became the center of attention of Dutch 'Stichting Constellation Netherlands'. Work to restore her to flying condition slowly started in 1993, until 2001 when she was acquired by the Aviodrome Museum in Lelystad (sounds familiar after the previous posts, doesn't it) and ferried to the Netherlands. Today, she sits beautifully restored in the museum's collection, basically airworthy like several of their exhibits. She is wearing KLM colours of the 1950s and a fake ID, as she never was one of the 26 Lockheed L-049/749 Constellations that actually served with the Dutch carrier.

N749VR / 'PH-FLE', Lockheed L-749A Constellation, KLM, Lelystad, August 3, 2024 (Photo: F. Lusser).

It's a bit tight in there and hard to squeze her into the frame, but here she is - former Conifair sprayer 2 as she looks now. Note the original round nose from her days before a weather radar was added.

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Am currently sloooooowly working on a plastic model kit of this, a 1987 reissue of Lindberg's 1958 model in 1/48 scale.

Having fun adding various not-included details in more of a 'folk art' than 'musuem scale' style. Used cockpit and pilot from a Monogram 1/48 scale F-84 Thunderjet as they were 'close enough' for my tastes. Cockpit detail was only a seat and a pilot, those have been reassigned to s sci-fi scratchbuild. Also adding representations of other details; the intake ducts for the 2 gas turbine engines, located below cockpit, and their exhausts. Plan is to add some other 'what if' details & a likewise 'what if' paint scheme.

My imagination can envision a Tamiya 1/32 scale kit of this; with 2 different seats and 2 different pilot figures by which to show seat in the normal flight &/or the rotated for landing, positions: and with an alternate clear lower fuselage part to show the 2 gas turbine engines and propellor gearing. However, here in real life, Tamiya would probably find that such a kit would not sell enough to pay back the costs of its creation and production.

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Convair Model 48 Charger

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Convair Model 48 Charger. Observation and light attack AC

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Convair Model 48 Charger by Willard Womack Via Flickr: This was Convair's prototype light attack and observation airplane. It lost to the North American OV-10. Only one was built and it crashed on a test flight, due to pilot error, in 1965. It was the last plane built by Convair.

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Convair Model 48 Charger. Observation and light attack AC. Prototype first flew in 1965

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Consolidated Model 39 Liberator-Liner NX30039 (c/n 1) by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39, Convair Model 104) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the second of two prototypes was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the first prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.

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Consolidated R2Y Model 39 (Convair 104) 'Liberator Liner' NX30039 (c/n 1) American Airlines 'City of Salinas' by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficcient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.

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Convair Model 104 'Liberator Liner' NX3939 (/cn 2) American Airlines ex US Navy XR2Y-1 BuNo 09893 by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficcient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.

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General Dynamics Model 48 Charger Convair

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Convair Liberator Liner NX30099 American Flagship by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficcient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.

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Convair XR2Y-1 BuNo 09803 NX3939 (c/n 2) Model 104 by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39, Convair Model 104) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficcient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.

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Consolidated Model 39 Liberator-Liner NX30039 American Airlines by Batman_60 Via Flickr: The Consolidated R2Y "Liberator Liner" (Consolidated Model 39, Convair Model 104) was an attempt at creating an airliner derivative of the B-24 airframe. Built for the US Navy by Consolidated Aircraft (soon to become Convair), the XR2Y-1, as the single prototype was known in Navy service, used the wings, engines, single vertical tail and landing gear of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, but The fuselage was an entirely new design. The first prototype NX30039 (c/n 1) was flown for the first time on April 15, 1944 piloted by Phil Prophett and his crew. Meant to carry passengers or cargo to distant Navy bases, after a brief evaluation the prototype was demilitarized in the mid-1940s, returned to Convair, and sold to American Airlines as a freighter. Finding the design deficcient, the Navy cancelled its order. Convair, however, purchased and completed the second prototype in Navy colours, and it was completed as the Convair 104 XR2Y-1. Fitted with R-1830-65 engines, NX3939 (c/n 2) made it first flight on September 29, 1944 and eventually given the US Navy registration 09803. American Airlines operated c/n 1, named City of Salinas, Convair's support, for three month transporting fresh fruits between California and the Northeast. Designed as an airliner for 48 seated passengers or 24 in sleeping berths, or cargo of 18,500 lb could be loaded straight from flat trucks through large fuselage doors. Unable to compete in performance with current propliners such as war surpluss C-54s and C-46s, both aircraft were scrapped in 1945. How hard would it have been to keep one? Another regrettable airframe extinction for a few bucks worth of scrap metal.