page_title: Convair 880
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Convair 880 / Operators
caption_attribution_description: An air-to-air right side view of a Convair UC-880 aircraft, the only such aircraft in U.S. Navy service. The Convair is assigned to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, and is employed in Tomahawk cruiser missile testing and refueling aircraft procedures.
context_page_description: The Convair 880 is an American narrow-body jet airliner produced by the Convair division of General Dynamics. It was designed to compete with the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 by being smaller but faster, a niche that failed to create demand. When it was first introduced, some aviation circles claimed that at 615 mph, it was the fastest jet transport in the world. Only 65 Convair 880s were produced over the lifetime of the production run from 1959 to 1962, and General Dynamics eventually withdrew from the airliner market after considering the 880 project a failure. The Convair 990 was a stretched and faster variant of the 880.
caption: A UC-880 assigned to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, employed in Tomahawk cruise missile testing and refueling aircraft procedures
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