Cary Grant's Convair CV240

Cary Grant's Convair CV240
Camarillo, California (CA), US
" Cn 93 is a CV240 and was delivered as VH-TAS to Trans-Australia Airlines ("James Cook") oct.'48. Consider that, for a minute. In 1956 it went to Pakistan Int'l Airlines (AP-AHS). It went Dutch as PH-NLP for Fokker (operated for Euravia) and came home as N559R for Beldex Corporation (july'60). It was reregistered as N396CG for Faberge Inc in sep.'70 and flew for movie star Cary Grant. It went thru various owners, incl Howard Hughes in the 1970s. It was stored in Pontiac,MI 1982-1986. C&M Airways,TX bought it in aug.'89, but it was registered to another owner a few months later… It was leased by Renown Aviation, as a freighter, in the early 1990s. ....It flew passengers for flag carriers, VIPs for Hollywood and now it sits discarded by cargo operators while the grass grows high around it..." [ruudleeuw.com]
" Cn 93 is a CV240 and was delivered as VH-TAS to Trans-Australia Airlines ("James Cook") oct.'48. Consider that, for a minute. In 1956 it went to Pakistan Int'l Airlines (AP-AHS). It went Dutch as PH-NLP for Fokker (operated for Euravia) and came home as N559R for Beldex Corporation (july'60). It was reregistered as N396CG for Faberge Inc in sep.'70 and flew for movie star Cary Grant. It went thru various owners, incl Howard Hughes in the 1970s. It was stored in Pontiac,MI 1982-1986. C&M Airways,TX bought it in aug.'89, but it was registered to another owner a few months later… It was leased by Renown Aviation, as a freighter, in the early 1990s. ....It flew passengers for flag carriers, VIPs for Hollywood and now it sits discarded by cargo operators while the grass grows high around it..." [ruudleeuw.com]
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jbottero
@ 2006-03-26 00:17:28
At the far other end of the runway looks to me for all the world like a firing range! At an airport?
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kjfitz
@ 2006-03-26 16:37:05
Yup. From the notice to pilots:

AVOID OVERFLIGHT OF PISTOL RANGE LCTD SOUTH OF RY 08 THLD.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KCMA

Could be part of the Ventura County Police and Sheriff's Reserve Officer Academy:

http://www.copquest.org/academy/

"The academy is located at the Camarillo airport facility in mid-Ventura County..." (address is the other end of the irport though.)

Also at this airport is the Ventura County Fire Training Center:

http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/lotl/v27/b.html
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jbottero
@ 2006-04-07 14:54:16
Well, warnings or not, it wouldn't be my first choice of locations...

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