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Convair 990 - Northeast Airlines

1,352 RedTrinity  6 hours ago
Auto Credit Based on qazedcujmyhn's [Reworked] Convair CV990

Ingame reporting name: “Convair 990 - Northeast Airlines”
Also warning even longer description coming btw


Summary of Northeast Airlines…

Northeast Airlines was an American trunk carrier, a scheduled airline based in Boston, Massachusetts, originally founded as Boston-Maine Airways that chiefly operated in the northeastern United States, and later to Canada, Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda and other cities. It was notably small and unprofitable relative to other trunk carriers, being less than half the size, by revenue, than the next biggest trunk in 1971. Northeast was acquired by and merged into Delta Air Lines in August 1972.[1]

From 1975 onward, Air New England was essentially a reincarnation of many of the New England routes of Northeast Airlines, complete with the aircraft Northeast used to fly those routes and Northeast's IATA code

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Airlines


Summary of the Convair 990…

The Convair 990 Coronado is a retired American narrow-body four-engined jet airliner produced between 1961 and 1963 by the Convair division of American company General Dynamics. It was a stretched version of its earlier Convair 880 produced in response to a request from American Airlines: the 990 was lengthened by 10 ft (3.0 m), which increased the number of passengers from between 88 and 110 in the 880 to between 96 and 121. This was still fewer passengers than the contemporary Boeing 707 (110 to 189) or Douglas DC-8 (105 to 173), although the 990 was 25–35 mph (40–56 km/h) faster than either in cruise

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair990Coronado


Aircraft in real life…

N5612 was the only Convair 990 in Northeast Airlines’ fleet. Like many airlines operating the type, it was leased for a small period of time, from 1967-1968. This was mainly used for the Miami-New York service. The aircraft was named “Flagship Rita”. This aircraft was also the 24th CV990 to be built.

This specific aircraft was delivered to its first customer (American Airlines) at 9/4/1962, was 48.4 years old before its end, and was tested at San Diego Airport with an unknown test registration.

The aircraft before it got scrapped had been with the following airlines:
Note: any words in bold means it didn’t get taken up, but rather by another company.
It’s also formatted as DD/MM/YYYY here.

  • American Airlines, from 9/4/1962 - 20/1/1967 with registration N5612.
  • Northeast Airlines (Leased from Frederick B. Ayer & Associates), from 20/1/1967 - 30/4/1968 with registration N5612.
  • APSA Aerolineas Peruanas (Leased from Frederick B. Ayer & Associates), from ??/6/1969 - 2/5/1971 with registration OB-R-925.
  • Frederick B. Ayer & Associates, from 8/9/1972 - 26/9/1973, with registration N6846.
  • California Airmotive, from 26/9/1973 - 23/10/1973, with registration N6846.
  • Ports of Call, from 23/10/1973 - 28/11/1973, with registration N6848.
  • Ports of Call, from 28;11/1973 - ??/10/1987, with registration N8357C.
  • Western Continental Holding Company, from ??/10/1987 - 17/1/1988, with registration N8357C.
  • Ciskei International Airways (leased from Western Continental Holding Company until Sep 1988, leased from Transav Incorporated Sep 1988. Never entered service), from 17/1/1988 - 9/5/1990, with registration N8357C.
  • Seagreen Air Transport (leased from Transav Incorporated. Never entered service), from 9/5/1990 - ??/9/1991
    (Was stored 9/5/1990 - ??/9/1991 at Ostend–Bruges International Airport (OST/EBOS).)
  • Trans Caribbean Airlines (leased from Seagreen Air Transport), with registration N8357C
  • Transav Incorporated, from ??/9/1991, with registration N8357C.
    (Stored at El Paso International Airport at ??/9/1991 - ??/7/2010.)

The aircraft was then scrapped at (ELP/KELP) at ??/7/2010, after more than 18 years of storage, and more than 48 years of service with different airlines.


Gallery…


N5612’s side profile at JFK airport (JFK/KJFK)


N5612, as seen in JFK airport with a Pan Am 707 behind.


Other Information…

This was surprisingly easy for a livery in the 1960’s.
This is the first Convair livery I made.

That’s all! Have fun!

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor [Reworked] Convair CV990
  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 128.0ft (39.0m)
  • Length 151.3ft (46.1m)
  • Height 41.8ft (12.8m)
  • Empty Weight N/A
  • Loaded Weight 132,705lbs (60,194kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.406
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.09
  • Wing Loading 35.6lbs/ft2 (174.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 3,724.3ft2 (346.0m2)
  • Drag Points 36016

Parts

  • Number of Parts 520
  • Control Surfaces 9
  • Performance Cost 3,656
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    1,352 RedTrinity

    @LuisMe sometimes, the way to go with some complex symbols is with using text labels and a bit of attention to detail.

    3 hours ago
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    4,218 LuisMe

    very cool! was a one of my ideas in a start, but i didn’t built a Convair of NE because of the complicated lines of the tail and livery.. very cool! 10/10

    3 hours ago