VH-BZM   Convair 440-61  Metropolitan           (c/n  465)

                                

                                      VH-BZM was built for Ansett Airlines in 1957 and delivered in October of that year in Ansett-ANA
                                      titling.  At least the paint shop in San Diego didn't have a problem getting it right, since they had plenty
                                      of experience in painting Braniff Convairs over the past decade in the virtually the same scheme!  The
                                      color shot above is via Nigel Daw and came from the archives of the Civil Aviation Historical Society
                                      of SA.  This Convair was only with Ansett for five years, being sold in 1962 to Allegheny Airlines as
                                      N8422H who converted it, in due course, into a CV-580, whereupon it became N5835.   Anyway,
                                      during its short spell in Australia it spent time under  lease/loan to both Butler Air Transport and
                                      Queensland Airlines.   It had a varied career after leaving Allegheny in 1978 and, until quite recently
                                      was still flying in Canada as C-FKFL