slide scan from the NK collection. - Transeuropa acquired seven Friendships from IBERIA and operated them from 1980 until they suspended operations in February 1982; all of the Fokker 27s were taken over by AVIACO. EC-DBN, originally a Garuda Indonesia aircraft and seen here still wearing the basic IBERIA colour scheme, was finally flown by CUBANA as CU-T1293 and scrapped at Havana in the late 90ies.

With Air Hospital titles, indicating the role of this aircraft. Next to the Fokker is the fuselage of ATR 72-202 cn303 (EC-LNQ) of Helitt Líneas Aéreas.

First flight as PH-EXH June 19th 1978. September 25th 1978 Fokker (not sold) December 1978 stored at Woensdercht. January 16th 1980 5X-UAP Uganda Airlines. January 20th 1991 OY-SRC Star Air. October 14th 1994 XY-AES Myanmar National Airways. January 29th 1998 it crashed while taking off at Thamdwe in Myanmar... Seen parked at the Cargo Ramp at forenbu in July 1991

slide scan from my collection. - Fokker has used this 1983-built airframe for three years, initially as an engine testbed, thereafter as a demonstrator for maritime surveillance duties. In 1986, the Friendship was sold to Scibe/Zaire as 9Q-CBE. After being hit by rebel gunfire during flight in September 1991, it made a successful emergency landing at Goma; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was dbr.

One of the five Fokker 27s of Air Tanzania, seen at Munich-Riem shortly after a thunderstorm. It still has the old Air Tanzania colour scheme (the new one included a blue roof top); I suppose it came in on a fuel stop on its way to the Netherlands. - The Friendship was sold to BMA as G-BMAU in 1983 and was lost in an accident during a training flight to East Midlands in 1987.

Air France have used their Fokker 27s on night mail routes for over 30 years, generating quite low total airborne times on these airframes. Therefore, the 1968-built Friendship shown here was still in existance in 2023, noted at Nairobi as 5Y-GMC, all white and in reasonable condition.

Ex TAM-90, Fokker F27-400M FAB-90 in the colours of TAM seen arriving at Santa Cruz-Viru Viru airport with the last light of the day.

First flown 25 March 1964 at Schipol, in April 1964 leasd to Schreiner Airways as PH-SAF. To Braathens SAFE as LN-SUL 8 April 1965, named"Sigurd Munn" in 1971 or 1972. On 15 February 1977 it was transfrd to Airexecutive Norway, as the 3rd F27 from BU to BS. Airexecutive renamed Busy Bee of Norway in Septembr 1980 and in 1982 LN-SUL was repaintd to the new colours, as one of the last repaintd but also one of the first with black Busy Bee titles. In October 1992 LN-SUL was leased to Air Nordic, and became SE-KZE May 1995. In 1998 to Eureca and 1999 wfu at Malmö. Used by Flygskolan, Ljungbyhed

slide from J. D. Lezark. - Brockway Air was created from the merger of Clinton Aero and Air North in October 1984; five Fokker 27s, inherited from Air North, were operated. In 1986, the name Brockway disappeared again on the aircraft when the airline started to operate as Piedmont Commuter. - N60AN, originally built for Aero Peru, was broken up in 2009 after it had finally flown for WDL as D-AELI.

slide scan from the NK collection. - The operator of this Fokker Friendship was Uni-Air; the aircraft was painted in the old Uni-Air colours on this visit to Munich-Riem. After 8 years of service with Uni-Air, F-BYAO was sold to ARAT ("Avion de Recherche Atmosphérique et de Télédétection") and flew as a research aircraft until 2002. It was retired at Creil and scrapped after a few years.

slide by Andreas Dürr. - This is the third standard colour scheme worn on the Merpati Fokker 27's. PK-MFR, built 1959, came into Merpatis fleet in 1977 and was retired at Surabaja in 1993.

slide scan from my collection. - OY-APE, built for Maersk Air in 1970, flew for Alkair between 1984 and 1987. Its subsequent operator Star Air lost the Friendship in May 1988, when it crashed on approach to Hannover during a cargo flight.

First flight February 24th 1975 as PH-EXA. Delivered to Aeroperu as OB-R1042 May 7th 1975. May 1984 N61AN Air North, October 1st 1984 merged into Brockway Air. February 24th 1989 OY-SRZ Star Air. March 20th G-CHNL Dart Group, opf Channel Express. January 12th 1999 G-CHNL crashed on approach to Guerney, UK Seen pakerd at Fonrebu in May 1991, with Hisorcial Flight Invader parked behind, and a SAS DC-9 far behind on final approach to rwy 06.

slide from Adrian Stanislovaitis. - Midstate Airlines operated a fleet of six Fokker 27s from 1984 to 1986; all were leased to Chicago Air during 1986, until this airline had to cease its operations within the same year. The Fokkers were sold; this one here flew for Jersey Airlines and later in India as VT-UPD until 1998. The airframe was still in existance at the time of upload - used for training by an aviation academy at Mumbai.

slide scan from the NK collection. - IBERIA operated a total of ten Fokker 27s, eight new from the manufacturer and two second-hand from Garuda Indonesia. EC-BMS from 1967 was the first in the fleet and is shown here in a mid colour scheme (not the delivery colours). In 1981, the Friendship was transferred to Transeuropa and later to AVIACO; finally flew with CUBANA as CU-T1286 until 2001; b/u at Havana in 2002.