This aircraft was originally built for Fairchild Hiller and took its first flight as N289FH in 1972. it entered the Dutch regiater as PH-EXI on the 27th of April 1977 In May 1977 it was sold to the Department of Civil Aviation in Australia and took up the registration VH-ATD on April the 2nd 1998 it entered the Canadian register as C-FTAR Canadian Regional Airlines Time Air. other registrations were TU-PAB and TU-TGW in 2009.