Conair Convair retirement

[f4phantom]

John Olafson recently sent me an email with the exciting news of a new aviation museum opening in Kelowna, B.C. "The KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence just opened this week at Kelowna Airport. It’s the dream of Barry Lapointe, founder and President of Kelowna Flightcraft to build a facility like this and it’s a beautiful museum and convention center all in one. The star of the museum is the deHavilland Mosquito, one of only five airworthy examples in existence. Two aircraft you will be interested in are the CV580 N580HW which is now retired and on permanent display there. Its parked on the outside and looks great and it’s a special one due to the research work it did for years and that its construction number is number 2."

"While on the subject of Convairs I was given great news and that is, Conair CV580 C-FFKF (Tanker 44) will be coming to the museum and displayed there complete with the retardant tank. That is significant being it was Kelowna Flightcraft who designed and modified all the air tanker CV580’s out there with the exception of two. So now there are two more Convairs being preserved forever."

http://www.proplinerinfoexchange.com/1- ... SEP12-2022

[aerovet]

Just FYI:
We @Scramble reported on the new museum in this post of 4 February of this year:
https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/m ... ian-museum

Also recently on the roll-out of their Hawker Tempest