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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.
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    General News
 
Peruvian airline ATSA expects its first Dash 8 to be delivered shortly. It is not clear whether this is a fleet expansion or means replacement of their F50.

Jetair Caribbean started scheduled flights between Willemstad (Curaçao) and Philipsburg (St. Maarten) 020220. The service is flown twice a week using F70s.
 
 
     Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60
 
 
Again a Braathens Regional F50 that lost its colors: SE-LIR (20151) is flying for Amapola Flyg in an all white scheme at least since October 2019.
(Anders Nilsson at Flickr, Stockholm-Bromma, October 13, 2019)

 
10260 200   HB-ISH Sunshine Aviation. This Friendship is still in existence as a fire trainer at Basel airport; it was seen there 160220, missing outer wings and rudder.
10262 200MAR   AR-NZE / 74 Pakistan Navy. Performed the farewell flyby at PNS Mehran near Karachi on 210120 on the occasion of the Pakistan Navy phasing out the F27.  Over the years Navy 27 Anti-Submarine Warfare squadron has had eight F27 on strenght, of which six were flying and two for spares only. Ship 74 was transferred to PNS Siddiq at Turbat where it will be preserved as a gate guard. 
10654 500   PK-KRL Asialink Cargo. This freighter is for sale, it is stored at Batam airport.
10656 400M   6W-STB Senegal Air Force. Location mentioned in Fokkernews #23 has to be corrected to Parachute regiment in Thiaroye Gare, Senegal (Google 14.756499, -17.376238).
20119 050F   PK-KRP Asialink Cargo. Also for sale, also stored at Batam.
20146 050   SE-LIO Amapola Flyg. Ferried from Malmö to Lelystad 250220 for painting into new Amapola color scheme.
20202 050   5Y-SMQ Skyward Express. AeroCentury recently sold this aircraft to Skyward Express, so apparently it was on lease previously, as it is in Kenian service already since 2016.
20288 050 2-VGAS PJ-KVM Vermeer Global Aviation Services, registered 301019. Destined for a still unknown African operator. Noted at Curaçao 0120 in basic Insel Air colors.
20297 050   PJ-KVO Insel Air. Seen at Curaçao 0120, missing engines and other parts.
 
 
     Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100
 


The end of the Fokker era has commenced for Virgin Australia Regional Airlines. The first F100 made it an last flight as VOZ9927 from Perth to Avalon, where it is to be scrapped. (Anthony James, Perth, January 24, 2020)


Although Jetair Caribbean PJ-JAC (11582) carries its Antillean registration already since July 2019, we can now present a picture for the first time.
(Jacques Vooren; Willemstad, January 22, 2020)



The second Jetair Caribbean F70, PJ-JAB (11585) received the registration of its home country in December 2019 and is now in active service.
(Jacques Vooren, Willemstad, January 24, 2020).


 
11305 100   VH-FZO Virgin Australia Regional Airways. Ferried from Perth to Avalon 240120 as VOZ9927 for scrapping.
11321 100   4O-AOM Montenegro Airlines. The last active F100 to be withdrawn from use late October 2020, being replaced by a new Embraer 195.
11454 100   EP-ASO Iran Aseman Airlines. Seen 010120 at Shiraz, apparently in long-term storage without engines.
11520 100   VH-UQG Alliance Airlines. Made first commercial flight 030220 from Brisbane via Maroochydore to Emerald and return QQ4078/4079.
11528 070   PH-JCH Airline Technical Support. Noted 0120 at Curaçao in ATS hangar, in basic Insel Air colors without titles.
11560 070   VH-NUY Alliance Airlines. Seen 130220 at Bratislava, now in full Alliance colors and being worked on, so presumably delivery to Australia is imminent.
11562 070   5B-DDF TUS Airways. Ferried from Larnaca to Bratislava 140220 as CYF124M. For maintenance or storage??
11568 070   VH-NUZ Alliance Airlines. This aircraft was stored at Brisbane since its arrival in Australia on 310318, being intended as a parts donor for the rest of the fleet. Surprisingly, it flew to Avalon 150120 for painting and made its first revenue service Brisbane-Maroochydore-Emerald and return 170220 as QQ4078/4079.
11585 070 PJ-JAB 2-JACC Jetair Caribbean, re-registered 061219.

 

Credits: All photographers, Air Britain News, Airliners.sk o.z., Aviator.aero, CH-Aviation, Merv Crow, FlightAware,
Flightradar24, Hans Groen, Jan Homma, Jetphotos.net, Luchtvaartnieuws.nl, Pakistan Defence Web, Planespotter.net,
Greham Reeve, Skyliner, Jacques Vooren.