http://www.flyboytrader.com/boardview.cfm?BBSID=10305&GroupID=15&CatCode=SAA

Is this ad real? $24000 seems like a low price for a complete airliner. I hope the aircraft is going to a good home, and not the scrapyard. Convair jets are great, and I would love to see one fly.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0398472/L/

It says 24k is less than scrap value. It is in a lot better shape than most of the Convairs at Mojave airport. That engine run 9 years ago is probably the last 990 engine run.

I wonder what it would cost just to have it dismantled and trucked out of there?

Would cost more than its worth to get airworthy

No news on 990 ship number 24. However, there is some news on other Convair restoration projects that are going on.

http://www.convairjet.com

Convair 880 ship number 13 looks like it has the best future with The National Museum of Commercial Aviation in Atlanta being interested.

[quote]11 July, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Grant Wainscott 678-758-4198


Morrow, GA – Organizers for the National Museum of Commercial Aviation (NMCA), to be located off Interstate 75 in Morrow, have a new reason to smile today. Following a presentation in April from the museum's board members, the Morrow City Council voted in favor of allotting $280,000 to the museum for the acquisition, moving and re-fit of its first commercial jet aircraft.

Museum board members will now travel to New Jersey where the first target aircraft is located, and finalize the paperwork for the more than $500,000 donation of the world's last remaining Convair 880 in an original passenger configuration.

The museum effort, begun more than three years ago, has grown tremendously in the past twelve months. The City of Morrow has already set aside several acres for the museum along Interstate 75 in the new $200 million Twinn Creeks Arts & Entertainment District, a 70-acre mixed-use redevelopment area around Southlake Mall.

"When museum officials approached the City of Morrow last year, and indicated their interest in locating on the south side of Atlanta, we were thrilled," said Grant Wainscott, Morrow's Director of Economic Development and the President of the Morrow Business and Tourism Association. "The great thing about the museum is that we have already been selected as the site...we don't have to go through the unfortunate process of bidding like the NASCAR Hall of Fame."

With overwhelming support from the airline community, the museum board is moving forward with its art-deco inspired terminal design. According to Richard Smith, Senior Project Manager for Murphy & Orr -chosen by the museum to be the lead design firm -the terminal building "was designed to evoke the look and feeling of a typical airline terminal in the 1940's."

"The design of the building allows for six full-size aircraft to be parked outside the terminal, as if they were waiting at the gate, connected by jet-ways," Smith added. "Additionally, there will be many aircraft inside the museum, including cockpit sections, landing gear, wing sections, fuselage cutaways and intact aircraft hanging from the ceiling."

The vote by the City Council re-affirms the City's interest in seeing the museum continue on-track for a 2008 ground breaking. "The exterior aircraft displays must be put in place first, before we can break ground on the museum terminal," explains Wainscott. "That is why it is so critical to quickly locate and move the aircraft that we will display."

Several museums and collectors around the country have already offered aircraft to the NMCA, and work has begun evaluating which particular aircraft will be represented. "It's not as simple as taxiing an aircraft off the runway to its final home," explains Captain James Bateman, a museum board member and airline captain with more than 40-years of flight experience. "The museum is right off the interstate, not on an airstrip. Therefore, each aircraft must be taken apart and carefully moved to the site, where it will be re-assembled and put up on pilings for stability."

The difficulty of these moves has garnered national interest. Several television stations and newspapers have already contacted the museum about covering the process. Most recently the National Geographic Channel contacted museum officials about including the first aircraft move on one of their most popular programs, Mega Moves.

"It's exciting to realize that this is actually happening," board member Robert Lee, an ex-Eastern employee comments. "After years of planning, looking for sites, trying to raise interest…it's all coming together."

Volunteers are needed to assist with the break down and rebuild of the aircraft, particularly those with direct experience working on the Boeing 727, Convair 880, DC-3 and DC-6 and other aircraft. Information on joining the effort or donating to the Museum can be obtained by calling Grant Wainscott at (678) 422-7446, or by visiting the Museum's website www.NationalAviationMuseum.com.[/quote]