The Palma (LEPA) Cv-990 Good news!

[gasman]

On another forum, I've just found this.....
I'll give 2 links, one in English (useful to get the jist of what's happening....and the Spanish version (has 240 odd photos)

Seems the old girl has had its 'ownership' transferred to a group of ex Spantax employees, with a view to giving her a facelift, and lots of TLC.
www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-save-the-Spantax-Convair-Coronado/88358419240

and

www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36277279406

Enjoy...and good luck to this venture !


Regards
John

[walterleo]

EC-BZO

has also its own homepage: (in English and Spanish)

www.ec-bzo.com/

Enjoy

Walter

[Dan K. Hansen]

Great ! thanks for the HU

[hitperson]

are they aiming to get her flying??

[christrott]

No, they're just doing a static restoration. After 23 years, that aircraft would need several million dollars just to make it taxi-worthy. Besides that, the CJ805 engine is nearly impossible to get as a whole much less parts for it as the CV-880 and CV-990 were the only versions to use it.

[walterleo]

Hi:
Accordning to the Spanish text in videoclip on the homepage they aim for a static restoration and exposition like the Coronado of Swissair in Zurich. Less the cockpit the plane inside still looks good even the seats. A treasure they have is the technical documentation a blend of Spantax, Convair and Swissair manuals.

Kind regards

Walter