Key facts
- Type
- Narrow-body jet airliner
- National origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- Convair
- Status
- Retired
- Primary users
- Trans World Airlines Delta Air Lines , Japan Airlines , Swissair
- Manufactured
- 1959–1962
- Introduction date
- May 1960 with Delta Air Lines
- First flight
- January 27, 1959
- Developed into
- Convair 990 Coronado
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Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- United States
- Developer
- Convair
- Manufacturer
- Convair
- Image
- Cathay Pacific Convair CV-880-22-1 Volpati-1.jpg
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- service entry
- 1960-05-00
- service retirement
- 1993-09-30
- derivative work
- Convair CV-990 Coronado
- Commons category
- Convair CV-880
- first flight
- 1959-01-27
- total produced
- 65
- wing configuration
- low wing
- has facility
- pressurized cabin
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Encyclopedic overview
The Convair 880 is a retired American narrow-body jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. It was designed to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 by being smaller but faster, a niche that failed to create demand. When it was first introduced, some in aviation circles claimed that at 615 mph (990 km/h), it was the fastest jet transport in the world. Only 65 Convair 880s were produced over the lifetime of the production run from 1959 to 1962, and General Dynamics eventually withdrew from the airliner market after considering the 880 project a failure. The Convair 990 Coronado was a stretched and faster variant of the 880.
Development
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Convair CV-880” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.