Crashed at Waipara Valley on February 24, 1974. Rebuilt in the US as N87768. Bob Kerr photo

Photo by Dick London.

F/F 5th June 2007 and built for Icelandair (hence a series 808), but this was not taken up and delivered to Air Berlin instead as D-ABBX 20th June 2007. Returned to lessor (AerCap) as 2-ABBX 16th March 2015 and leased to Fiji Airways as DQ-FJN 23rd May 2015.

Sold in Fiji as DQ-FIC in November 1993. Bob Kerr photo

This aircraft was withdrawn from use and written off after it made an emergency landing at Great Barrier Aerodrome at Claris on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, on 5th July 2009, having experienced a catastrophic engine failure during which a propeller became detached from the airframe.

At the time of posting this aircraft is still shown as current on the NZ online register.

The aircraft served with ANZ until retired on 1st February 2019 and became LY-NVV with Avion Express. It was leased to a number of carriers until withdrawn from use on 26th April 2021 and was last reported stored at Tarbes/Lourdes (LDE).

The aircraft was sold to Conair Aviation in September 2009 and ferried, still wearing VH-PAL, to their Abbottsford, BC., base. It was deleted from the Australian register on 14th September 2009 and placed on the Canadian register as C-GYXS on 21st September 2009. It appears that Conair acquired the aircraft for parts to support the operation of their Convair fire-bomber fleet as it never flew, or even wore, its Canadian marks, lingering on at Abbottsford gradually donating parts. The last online photo of a recognisable airframe is dated 2017, and it is thought it was scrapped shortly after.

Withdrawn from use and stored at Hamilton, (NZHN), in March 2016, it was sold to the Philippines in September 2016 but sold on and was last reported flying as 4608 with the Myanmar Air Force.

Sadly this aircraft was withdrawn from use at NZAA in June 2022 and scrapped soon after.