Famgus Aviation Postcards
Convair 240/340/440 Metropolitan

This page shows my collection of postcards of the Convair 240/340/440 Metropolitan aircraft.

Quoted from Wikipedia:

The Convair CV-240 was an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1956.

Role: Airliner
Manufacturer: Convair
First flight: 16 March 1947
Primary user: American Airlines
Produced: 1947–1956
Number built: 1181
Variants: C-131 Samaritan; CC-109 Cosmopolitan

As for all my aircraft pages the postcards are grouped by airline:

Current number of postcards on this page: 4
Current number of airlines represented: 4

Finnair (1)
Kar-Air (1)
SAS - Scandinavian Airlines System (1)
Swissair (1)

This page was last updated on November 14, 2010
Finnair
OH-LRB
Finnar Convair 340 Metropolitan

Old postcard size 14x9 cm

Printed by: Finnair Aero O/Y.
(Unnumbered)

Photograher: Unknown

Post marked Sep 14 1960
Kar-Air
OH-VKM
Kar-Air Metropolitan

Old postcard size 14x9 cm

Printed by: Unknown
(Unnumbered)

Photograher: Unknown

Posted 1964
SAS - Scandinavian Airlines System
The Metropolitan CV-440 LN-KLD "Ragnar Viking" at
Kiruna Airport, Sweden

A6 size (105 mm x 148 mm)
Color photo postcard

Published by: Grafisk Konst.
(Nbr: 126/8)

Photographer: Unknown

Postally used 1964
Swissair
A Swissair Convair, HB-IMB, at Düsseldorf-Lohausen Airport

A6 size (105 mm x 148 mm)
Color photo postcard

Printed by: Jos. Kessel, Niederdollendorf b. Bonn.
(No. 2068)

Photograher: Unknown

Post marked Mar 17 1962