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The Fokker Fleetlist will be regulary updated with news and/or pictures. Please be advised to check this section frequently!

This page contains recent owner & operator changes and other related news to the individual airframes of Fokker F27 (including Fokker 50 & Fokker 60) and Fokker F28 (including Fokker 70 & Fokker 100). Also the Fairchild models F-27 and FH-227 are part of the Fokker Fleetlist . The airframes are printed in chronological order.
For reactions on the contents or sharing news updates please contact the editor: fokkernews@gmail.com


 
    General News

Kenyan Fly Tristar Airlines is a partnership of Bush Air, Rudufu and Buffair. The new airline launched operations on May 15, 2018 with the inaugural flight from Nairobi Wilson to Mombasa Moi airport on board F50 5Y-WFC (20250), still painted in basic Flugfélag colors. Subsequently services from Nairobi to Kisumu and Lodwar via Eldoret were added. In early January 2019 the company suspended all flights in order to “reconfigure operations and better meet customers demands”. Time will show when operations will be resumed.

 Helvetic Airways has decided to phase out the remaining five F100's earlier than originally planned. Currently three have already been withdrawn from services to Bratislava, so there are still two active, often flying for Swiss and Lufthansa. The intention is to take the last F100 out of service by June 2019. The F100 fleet is to be replaced temporarily with four leased Embraer ERJ 190 until the ordered ERJ 190-E2 jets are delivered.

The future of InselAir is still at stake. A Curaҫao judge decided that the financial plans presented by InterCaribbean Airways (Turks & Caicos) were not solid enough for obtaining sufficient funding to pay off the creditors. The administrator requested and got postponement until 15th April.

Qantas has taken a 19.9% interest in Alliance Airlines, currently the largest Fokker operator worldwide with 41 aircraft and four more to come later this year. Alliance already performs domestic flights in Australia on behalf of Qantas.

 
 
     Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60
 
 
FF-1 (10274), the F27 that the Finnish Air Force has used for ELINT and SIGINT work, is now a monument at Pirkkala Air Base.
(Scramble on facebook; Pirkkala, December 2018)

Safari Express apparently operates their F27 5Y-SEP (10295) on behalf of the United Nations World Food program, as the logo on the nose suggests.
(André Alders; Mogadishu, March 16, 2018)


 Recently opened as a restaurant is PIA F27 AP-AUR (10307) that was seriously damaged back in 2004 when it overran the runway at Chitral.
(unknown photographer on trending.pk website; Chitral, November 2018)


 For some years Aerospace Consortium Ltd operates two cargo Friendships out of Nairobi, Kenya, amongst which 5Y-GMD (10448) in all white livery
(André Alders; Nairobi, March 16, 2018)


 Troopship (or C-31 as it was called in US military service) 85-1607 (10652) of the US Army ‘Golden Knights’ Parachute Team received a water salute when it made its last flight before being into storage at Amarc (unknown photographer on Instagram, via Jacques Vooren; Fort Bragg, September 24, 2018)


 Former Aerocaribe FH-227C XA-TIS (506) was stored for some 17 years on the boneyard of Hermosillo airport. The Mexican Tax Service had impounded the derelict aircraft and finally sold it in November 2018 to the Parque La Ruina recreation and food park in the same city, where it will serve as a memorial of regional aviation history. The all white aircraft, missing tail and outer wings, was towed to its new home on the other side of the city in a nightly transport. Note the logo of the La Ruina park painted on the nose (Entorno Informativo website; Hermosillo, January 24, 2019)


For promoting the annual Diani Beach Festival in December, Tristar Airlines had Rudufu’s 5Y-SKN (20110) decorated with special decals.
(Fly Tristar on facebook; Ukunda, November 2018)


As the Mongolian aviation authorities have decided that older aircraft will no longer be allowed from 2020, Hunnu Air operated the very last F50 flight with JU8883 (20181) on 220119. For the occasion the aircraft had a special “Thank you Fokker” sticker (Hunnu Air on facebook; Ulaanbaatar, January 22, 2019)


Whereas sister ship 5Y-JWX is all white, Jetways Airlines 5Y-JWZ (20208) carries large titles as well as a tiny logo next to the pax door.
(André Alders; Niarobi Wilson, March 17, 2018)


After some months in all white, Silverstone Air 5Y-IZO (20224) is now flying in a non-standard company livery: white with titles and tail logo.
(Shaz Leah on Instagram; Mombasa, November 2018)
 
 
506 227C   XA-TIS Aerocaribe. The derelict aircraft (ex XA-SDB) was transported on 230119 from Hermosillo airport to La Ruina park in the same city.
10274 100   FF-1 Finnish Air Force. The SIGINT Friendship was withdrawn from use in 2014. In December 2018 it was put on 3 poles as a display on the military part of Pirkkala airport.
10307 200   AP-AUR Pakistan International Airways. The Friendship overran the runway at Chitral on June 16, 2004 and was damaged beyond repair. In November 2018 it opened as a restaurant just outside the perimeter of Chitral airport in Northern Pakistan. (In the press the aircraft was mentioned as AP-ALN, 10164. That one also crashed, but a careful study of accident pictures shows that the damages are incompatible with the Chitral restaurant Friendship. Moreover, AP-AUR had the incident at Chitral airport, whereas AP-ALN had its accident in Central Pakistan). 
20127 050   OO-VLO VLM. After all useful parts had been removed as spares for Amapola Flyg, the fuselage was transported on 080119 by low loader from Deurne airport in Antwerp to the National Police Dog training center in Neerhespen. A video (with comment in Flemish) can be watched at https://atv.be/nieuws/video-laatste-fokker-verlaat-deurne-71493.
20181 050   JU8883 Hunnu Air. The aircraft operated Hunnu Air's last F50 flight 220119 from Ulaanbaatar via Altai to Uliastai and back to Ulaanbaatar.
20202 050   5Y-SMQ Skyward Express. A recent, but undated picture on internet showed this aircraft has lost Ocean Air titles and logo, and instead Skyward Express titles and a tail logo have been applied.

 
     Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100
 


The world’s last Fellowship flying in scheduled passenger service was 5Y-EEE of Safari Air Xpress, doing business as Fly-SAX (11229). It was still active in early 2018, but has been withdrawn from use since (André Alders; Nairobi, March 16, 2018)


 Two weeks after delivery to Australia, Alliance Airlines F100 VH-UQF (11456) made its first revenue flight from Brisbane to Rockhampton on behalf of Virgin Australia (Russell Prothero; Rockhampton, December 26, 2018)

Kish Air has applied the revised livery, that until now was sported by MD-82/83's, for the first time on a F100, EP-LCQ.
(Mohamadreza Zeinloo; Tehran-Mehrabad, January 4, 2019)


 TAM F100 PT-MQH (11512) experienced fuel starvation on 30.08.02 and had to make an emergency landing in a field close to Araçatuba airport. Fortunately, there were no victims among the 29 passengers and crew, only a cow in the field perished. The fuselage was later used in the TAM training center in São Paolo for crew training in full TAM livery. After integration of TAM Brazil into LATAM, the center is named Academia Corporativa Latam Airlines and the F100 fuselage was painted in the new corporate colors. (AeroIN website; São Paolo Congonhas, February 2018)
 
 
11287 100 PH-LML CS-TPC Registered 170119 and seen Saarbrücken 180119 all white with PH-registration. Owner unknown.
11324 100   HB-JVH Helvetic Airways. Withdrawn from use 091118 and ferried from Zurich to Bratislava 180119, probably for storage.
11340 100   YR-FKA Carpatair. Ferried from Arad to Woensdrecht 290119 as KRP5101 for maintenance.
11342 100 PH-LNJ CS-TPE Registered 211218, owner not yet known.
11369 100   YR-FKB Carpatair. Flew from Rodez to Woensdrecht 010219 for maintenance at Fokker Technics.
11395 100   YR-FZA Carpatair. Ferried from Woensdrecht via Liege to Arad 310119 as KRP501/502 after maintenance; it was at Woensdrecht since 131118.
11404 100   VH-UQY Alliance Airlines Pty. Cancelled from VH-register 191218. The aircraft was scrapped in Brisbane, where it had been stored since its arrival in Australia on 261216. It never flew for Alliance and was still in basic Austrian Airlines colors.
11416 100   9A-BTE Trade Air. Flying for HOP! from Hamburg to Nantes, the aircraft suffered an engine failure shortly after take-off on 211218. The crew shut off the engine and returned to Hamburg for a safe landing 33 minutes after take-off.
11459 100   HB-JVE Helvetic Airways. Withdrawn from use and ferried from Zurich to Bratislava 170119, likely for storage.
11496 100   UP-F1007 Bek Air. The lease to Trans Air Congo ended and the aircraft was ferried from Pointe Noir to Nairobi 111218. From then on lease to Safe Air Company and performed first flight from Nairobi to Mogadishu and back 070119.
11501 100   HB-JVC Helvetic Airways. Withdrawn from use and ferried from Zurich to Bratislava 160119, probably for storage.
11528 070 PH-JCH P4-FKA Registered 071118, owner unknown.
11532 070 VH-NUU OE-LFJ Alliance Airlines Pty. Registered 020119.

 

Credits: All photographers, Air Britain News, Aviator.aero, CH-Aviation, Greg Hyde, Luchtvaartnieuws,
Scramble, Skyliner, Jacques Vooren.