Abandoned At The Airport: Spantax’s Lost Convair 990 ‘Coronado’

Visitors to Palma de Mallorca Airport on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca and see a rare surviving Convair 990. Long before the passenger jet aviation industry was dominated by just Boeing and Airbus, other companies like Douglas, Fokker, Convair, and others built jet airliners. Convair’s 880 and 990 were General Dynamics’ answers to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8. Convair’s adventure into building jetliners was a disaster for the company, and afterward, General Dynamics (the parent company) gave up building aircraft.