Convair designed its 880 jet to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. Originally christened the Skylark 600 and then the Golden Falcon, Convair finally settled on the designation 'Model 880'.

On April 17, 1975, Elvis paid $250,000 to purchase a Convair 880 Jet that was just taken out of service by Delta Airlines and then he spent more than $350,000 to have it refurbished by the same ...

The Convair 880 only arrived in 1960, while the Convair 990 Coronado came a year after that. This meant that many major ...

Lisa Marie is a Convair 880, one of the 65 units produced between 1959 and 1962, before General Dynamics pulled from the airliner market and declared the Convair project a failure.

Scroggins owns the third existing complete 880, No. 35, and this one still has its passenger cabin interior. He would love to see it on public display and is negotiating with a Nevada museum.