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On display at the Delta Flight Museum is the cockpit from the prototype Convair 880 built by the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego, California.

This 880 was the first to fly on January 27, 1959, but the final 880 to be purchased. It served as Convair's "house" airplane used for test flights for several years. In 1961, it was converted to CV-880M, the "modified" design of the basic 880, for Convair's re-certification program. It was delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on October 29, 1964, and reconfigured back to the standard 880 configuration for TWA fleet commonality, before going into scheduled service from 1965 to 1973.

In 1990, the cockpit was refurbished and painted in Delta livery by Delta Technical Operations employees. It went on display at the Heritage Row Museum at Underground Atlanta, until 1997. With the closure of the Heritage Row Museum, the cockpit relocated to the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau Visitor's Center at Underground Atlanta. In 2015, the cockpit moved to the newly renovated Delta Flight Museum.

In December 1965, Delta offered the first international Convair 880 service—to Caracas, Venezuela, and Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Delta acquired a fleet of 17 Convair 880 aircraft from 1960-1962. The Convair 880's fuel consumption made it unprofitable to fly with the advent of the fuel crisis of the 1970s. Delta retired its last Convair 880 on January 1, 1974.