really making a racket

I did 12000 hours in the 440 and 580. NO boosted controls, did we ever have arm muscles. Second favorite aircraft.

Can't find any reference to an accident near Kapiti involving a CV580. There was a non fatal crash near Pitt Island involving an Air Chathams Cessna around about then.

It was a Fieldair freight Convair, same type, different company.

Yeah, it’s sad to see them go.

i flew in one when it was republic airlines, my dream came true that year. i'd give anything to take 1 more flight in one

Air Chathams have what I think is the only CV580 simulator in the world. Pilots come to them for training. They also have a good stock of spares. Perhaps any rare parts are custom made - costly though?

+lennywgtn I saw the simulator in another video and would agree it's one of a kind.

Johnny Rocco - All of us who have cared for historic aircraft share your parts concern. Fortunately, for the CV-580, the 501-D engine is still in wide military use. Also the US military used variants of this airframe (with piston engines) and the military ordered large parts stockpiles as a matter of course. These parts are auctioned off to civilians when the airplane is taken out of service. My general observation is that what seems like a small army of people devote themselves to the preservation, overhaul or even production of parts for historic aircraft so that popular aircraft like the CV-580 are quite likely to be adequately supplied for awhile. I know all this is a generalization but I can personally say that parts have been fairly forthcoming even when I needed them for an aircraft was almost 60 years old!

Kelowna Flightcraft owns the type certificate and they have or can make a lot of the parts since they bought the tooling, jigs, and drawings from Canadair who bought it from General Dynamics. They have a simulator as well.

Chas S There is a start arm switch on the copilot's right hand panel. cabin pressure is over there also. The guarded switch is the ground turbo compressor GTC for starting air. The switch to the left the was on and off again was the right fuel boost pump. I have not been in a 580 cockpit in 25 years. but I can probably start it blindfolded.

She's no lady. She's a CV580!!

No idea about Airframe time or cycles. There is some history here: www.aussieairliners.org/convair/zk-cib/zkcib.html They have retired this aircraft type now, replaced by ATR72-500s. If you message Air Chathams via their Facebook page, I'm sure they will be happy to share more info about the Aircraft. They were pretty good when I asked for info regarding painting schemes, etc for a Model I'm making.

flightworks I am actually making a model of a Convair 580 in Air Chatham livery. :)

lennywgtn that's awesome! What scale is it, I would love to see a video on it :)

flightworks 1/72nd... just a standard kit you can get anywhere, but I managed to source livery for Air Chathams...

Jim Holmes both had good running temps though? Get in touch with the folks at Air Chathams - they're good Kiwi Blokes!!

Yep - Same ones. Not quite the great sound of the Rolls Royce Dart, but still quite nice. :)

Does seem that they are the same. I am an Electra fan and seeing the props on the Convair enticed me to watch this video. On decent, it looked like the 1st officer keep pointing to an engine gauge for #1. It was reading lower than the one for #2. Unfortunately, the picture was too unsteady to see what it was. Do you know?

501D-22 Detroit Diesel Allison with Hamilton Standard steel props wide chord and cuff style :) Military uses it as the T-56 on c-130 & P-3.

Detroit Diesel has nothing to do with these engines. They were Allison.. now owned by Rolls Royce. The current Allison transmissions is no longer related.

NZWN, Wellington New Zealand, runway 34.

36:01 he downshifted the propellor , at 6:54 when they were getting ready to go he upshifted we were required to guard the E-Handle during this time