The Convair 990 Coronado is an 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 o
The Convair 990 is a low-wing airliner with four underwing turbofan engines.
Convair 990 Coronado cockpit
Swissair 990A Coronado "St Gallen" at Manchester Airport in 1964
Swissair Convair 990A Coronado taking off from Stockholm - Arlanda Airport, showing the distinctive volumes of smoke produced by its aft-turbofan, GE J79 turbojet-derived GE CJ805 engines
Convair, originally Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company created by the 1943 merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft, which later expand
Convair 990 Coronado
…The Convair 990 Coronado is an 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 the earlier Convair 880, and was produced in response to a request from…
RIM-2 Terrier antiaircraft missile on board USS Providence
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