stol

Convair Model CV-48 "Charger," designed for the COIN competition which North American Rockwell's OV-10 "Bronco" eventually won.

c/n 36 built for Golden West Airlines, Withdrawn from use when Golden West filed for bankruptcy Reregistered C-GJPI, flew with Air BC Badly damaged 20 Dec 1990 by inadvertent gear retraction on ground at Vancouver; repaired Flew with Voyageur Airways, Brymon Airways, Fugro Aviation Canada Ltd., and finally CGG Aviation (Canada) Ltd. Withdrawn from use & parked at North Bay, ON Dismantled for parts/scrap at North Bay, ON; parts acquired by Air Tindi Canadian registration cancelled 14 Mar 2018

N702GW also makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of The Pretenders' 1981 music video for their song "Day After Day." See: YouTube: The Pretenders - "Day After Day" (1981)

TVL1970 Best comment so far!

SDASM Archives 😄 Glad to oblige.

The last complete aircraft to be built by Convair was the Model 48 Charger. The Navy had issued a requirement for a new counter-insurgency aircraft. Convair proceeded with the manufacturing of a prototype. By the time it rolled out of the factory on September 29, 1964, the navy had decided on another design. However, the Army and the Marines preferred the Charger, so a flight test contract was awarded. Before a scheduled “fly off” could take place, the Model 48 was destroyed during a test flight by a navy pilot; another example was not built. oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tx3jrw/entire_text/