| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | VH-MMS |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Fokker F27 Friendship |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Fokker F27 Friendship/Troopship (C-31) |
| Aircraft Version: | Fokker F27-200 Friendship |
| C/n (msn): | 10139 |
| Operator Titles: | Ansett |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | Sydney - Kingsford Smith InternationalMap |
| Region / Country: | New South Wales, Australia |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: YSSY IATA: SYD Local: YSSY Other: - |
| Photo Date: | August 1985 |
| Photo by: | David Carter |
| Photo ID: | 19850 |
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VH-MMS flew with MacRobertson Miller Airlines in Western Australia from December 1959. By the time it was withdrawn from the West in January 1972 it had amassed 41,000 hours at a remarkable utilisation of 3400 hours a year. From 1972 to 1989 -MMS flew with Ansett's eastern Australian airlines, and clocked a further 29,000 hours at a more normal utilisation of 1700 hours a year. That was not to be the end of its career and from 1991 to 1994 it added a further 2000 hours in Peru as OB-1454. The former -MMS was scrapped in Chile with 72,020 hours in the log book. This photo is copyright © David Carter, and may not be used or published in any way without permission. It was added on 19 November 2017, and has since been viewed 303 times. |