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Photo by: Will Marshall (Date: 23.06.2010)
Airline: Honeywell International [N580HW]
Type: Convair 580
Airport: USA, Paine Field (PAE) ()
Comment: Honeywell addedthis still youthful Convair 580 for flights test to its fleet. The propliner is to celebrate its 50th birthday in less than 20 months.
DATE:01/07/10
SOURCE:Flight International
Honeywell's Convair 580 test aircraft gets a facelift
By Kate Sarsfield
Honeywell has given its Convair 580 test aircraft a facelift to reflect the trademark red and white colour scheme of its engine/avionics manufacturer.
The twin-engined turboprop - registration N580HW - is pictured at its Paine Field in Everett, Washington base where it is used to test the new avionics.
The CV580 was previously decked in the blue and white paint scheme and N580AS registration of AlliedSignal - which bought and merged with Honeywell in late 1999.
The aircraft - CV580 serial number 2 - is the oldest of the Convair 240/340/580/640/5800 series still flying.
Flight's ACAS database says the aircraft was built in January 1952 and was delivered to United Airlines the following September as a CV340-3, registration N73102. It was converted to a CV580 around 14 years later.