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My first photo-op at Tucson occurred on October 26, 1969, and reflects in one of my favorite subjects. N871TW was actually the prototype Convair 880, later sold to TWA and converted to airline standards in-house. There’s a bit of confusion with its tail number, which was N801TW during the flight test program, but that number was later assigned to a regular TWA delivery airplane, hence the out-of-order registration. It looks to have just come out of a major overhaul, all buffed out with a fresh coat of paint.
