In 2008, Wamena airport became the "Eldorado" for BAE-146 cargo airplanes, after Trigana and Merpati phased out their F-27's and before Boeing 737's were allowed to land at this remote airport. PK-VTM is the 9th production BAe146, built in 1983 and has previously been with the Government of Mali (TZ-ADT), Australia's National Jet Express (VH-NJZ) and in the Philippines as RP-C2999 (with Asian Spirit and later Zest Airways). Joint Manunggal Air in November 2008, withdrawn from use when Manunggal went out of business in 2015.

For a few years starting around 2008, Wamena airport became the "Eldorado" for BAE-146 cargo airplanes. That was after the Trigana and Merpati F-27's were phased out and before the Boeing 737's were allowed to land in this remote airport. PK-VTA is a 1984 built airframe and flew in Indonesia as from September 4, 2009. It had previously been registered in the UK as G-5-01, G-DEBN and G-MABR, in the US as N461AP, N568BA and N146AP, in Mexico as XA-RST and in Spain as EC-971 and EC-GEP. Left the Manunggal fleet in early 2014 to become RP-C8538 with Sky Jet Airlines in the Philippines.

The majority of the 214 C-160 Transall's built went to the armed forces of Germany, France, Turkey and South Africa. Only about 12 Transall's were civilian registered over the years, of which 9 were delivered to Pelita Air Service in Indonesia between 1981 and 1985. Four of those ended up with Manunggal Air, PK-VTR being one of them (ex PK-PTO). It still wears the basic Pelita livery in this 2008 picture. Manunggal Air went out of business in 2015.

Retaining the basic colours of Pelita to whom she was delivered in 1982, this Transall was stored at Halim along with PK-VTR