Photographer Frank Mc Meiken - ready for delivery with temporary G-registration - to PZ-TGT

Photographer Frank Mc Meiken ready for delivery, with temporary G- registration

Parked at its homebase Zorg en Hoop, BN-2 SAF-001 was the first aircraft of the Surinam Air Force, delivered in 1982. It has been in storage for many years.

Surinam Air Force maritime patrol CASA 212 SAF-214 seen parked at its home base Zorg en Hoop in Paramaribo. It was sold to N847CA with many flight hours left in December 2014.

Delivered to Suriname in 1982, involved in little accidents in SAF service (Sep'86 a ground collision with truck and in Nov'93 it made a heavy landing). Since late 1993 the SAF tried to repair the Islander, with succes by Jan'94. But it was decided after a few flights to withdraw the aircraft. After several years of inactivity, the BN-2 was given a major overhaul in 2008. Its first flight took place in Sep'08, but due to a fuel leakage it was grounded again since.

This Islander was possibly delivered to Suriname in 1982 and is reported withdrawn from use since April 1995 (but that status was possibly alreay some years before). 004 was earmarked for restoration from 2008, but this never took place and its condition got worse. The aircraft is here seen engineless at its homebase Zorg en Hoop.

The Indian government sold three Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL India) 316B Chetaks to the Suriname air force on 13 March 2015. Suriname paid USD 13,5 million for the trio. This 811 is stored and cannibalized since 2018 to keep the other two (SAF153 and 303) alive.

The Suriname Air Force Air Arm operated two C212s in the Martime Security role for several years, but eventually they were retired due to budget restraints. This aircraft was eventually sold to a US broker and was recently acquired by the Botswana Air Force.