Convair isn't the world's biggest aircraft maker, but its 990 Coronado was one of the fastest planes of the 1960s. Why was ...

The Convair 990 Coronado was a marvel of engineering—designed to be the fastest subsonic airliner in commercial history. With ...

This is the story of the Convair 990 Coronado, a failed commercial passenger jetliner that had a miraculous second renaissance working for NASA.

South African investigators have revealed that the crew of a Convair 340 were unsure which of the aircraft's two engines had caught fire before it crashed while attempting to return to Wonderboom ...

So on Aug. 29, in a Mojave Desert graveyard of orphaned and retired aircraft, Scroggins’ jet fuselage was hoisted by crane to a flatbed trailer to begin its road trip to Oregon.

When it comes to experimental military aircraft, perhaps one of the strangest proposals was the 1960s Convair Model 49. A mixture of a jet, tank, and attack helicopter, the invention was meant to ...

Listed on Bay Area Craigslist is a 1979 Fleetwood Pace Arrow RV, whose boxy body has been swapped for the sleek fuselage of a Convair CV-240, which was made between 1947 and 1954.

Kids can check out the cockpits of aircraft such as the rare Lockheed bush plane, the last remaining Martin 202 airliner, and even a TWA Convair 880 jetliner from the late 1950's among other aircraft.

US investigators have confirmed that elevator trim cables on a Convair 580 freighter had been reversed before the aircraft crashed in Ohio last September with the loss of all three occupants. The ...