Fokkernews April 2020 (issue 29)
General news
The Kazakh CAA has definitively revoked the operator’s certificate and certificates of airworthiness from Bek Air, as a result of the F100 crash in December 2019.
The Swedish government has contracted Amapola Flyg for operating five subsidized domestic routes, to be flown with their F50 fleet.
Virgin Australia Holdings entered voluntary administration 210420 to recapitalize the business and build a stronger financial position after the corona virus crisis. Time will show what this means for the Virgin Australia Regional Airlines Fokker fleet.
Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60
| c/n | type | registration | new registration | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10668 | 400M | N27FF | VNCE. The Foundation of Flying Dutch Cultural Heritage ferreid its recently acquired F27 on 14 March 2020 from Laurinburg-Maxton, NC to a maintenance facilty in Carrollton, GA (see https://vncenl.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/excalibur-airborne/, in Dutch). There the aircraft will be prepared for the transatlantic trip to Lelystad, later this year. | |
| 20103 | 50E | SE-LJV | 5Y-DDI | Cancelled from the Swedish register 16 March 2020 as exported to Kenya. Seen at Malmö 19 March 2020. |
| 20114 | 50 | 5Y-CHK | This all white F50, of which we had a picture in Fokkernews #28, has now been identified, but the actual operator still remains unknown. | |
| 20124 | 50E | SE-KTC | 5Y-JWH | Seen at Malmö 19 March 2020, all white with Kenyan registration |
Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100
| c/n | type | registration | new registration | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11111 | 4000 | PK-PJL | Pelita Air. One engine and some other parts seen on a dump near Bogor, Indonesia 8 April 2019. | |
| 11351 | 100 | P2-ANF | Air Niugini. While performing flight PX-121 from Wewak to Port Moresby on 18 March 2020, the crew made an emergency descent due to loss of cabin pressure. The passenger oxygen masks were released and the F100 made a safe landing at Madang. | |
| 11359 | 100 | VH-UQP | OE-*** | Alliance Aviation Slovakia sro. The Australian registration was cancelled 17 April 2020 as exported to Austria. Quite a surprising move. The aircraft is stored since November 2017 in Bratislava in basic Austrian colors. Maybe to be restored to its previous registration OE-LVJ?? |
| 11361 | 100 | VH-UQN | Alliance Airlines. On 10 November 2019 the aircraft encountered moderate turbulence flying at 300 feet during final approach of Rockhampton airport. The speed dropped below the minimum approach speed and the aircraft made a safe landing. | |
| 11390 | 100 | HP-1894PST | Air Panama. Noted at Mexico City 13 March 2020 missing many parts, in the process of scrapping. | |
| 11407 | 100 | 9A-BTD | Karun Airlines. Seen 8 April 2020 at Ahwaz airport in basic Trade Air livery with large Karun Airlines titles. No Iranian registration yet. | |
| 11427 | 100 | 5B-DDE | TUS Airways. Ferried Larnaca to Groningen 16 April 2020 as 5B421 for maintenance and storage awaiting a buyer. | |
| 11459 | 100 | VH-VKN | Alliance Airlines. Ferried on 7 April 2020 from Brisbane to Alice Springs as QQ9100 for continued storage. | |
| 11536 | 70 | 5B-DDA | TUS Airways. Ferried Larnaca to Groningen 16 April 2020 as 5B347 for maintenance and storage awaiting a buyer. | |
| 11575 | 70 | VH-QQY | Alliance Airlines. Ferried on 3 April 2020 from Brisbane to Alice Springs as QQ9100 for storage. |
In January 2015, the Italian CAA ordered Miniliner to end operations due to financial difficulties and the Fokker cargo fleet was then stored at Bergamo. After more than 5 years, the fuselage of their Friendship I-MLHT (10382) was torn to pieces by South East Aviation Services and sold for metal recycling. So, this F27 was not exported, as we already supposed in Fokkernews #24. Not the best picture, but the intention is obvious (still extracted from an anonymous Youtube video; Bergamo, April 16, 2020)
After the demise of Sky Aviation in 2012, its five F50s were stored and never found a new user. In late 2019, the fuselage of PK-ECG (20254) was noted at a scrap yard in Marunda, North Jakarta. Also part of a wing of PK-ECH (20255) can be seen on the photo (Tri Susilo at CNBCIndonesia.com; Marunda, November 2019)
The cockpit section of Aerolineas Argentinas F28 LV-LOA (11085) functions as an eyecatcher in front of a repair shop in Belén de Escobar, Argentina. The right-hand side is painted yellow and carries the national flag, the other side is green, yellow and red after it served as a bar in a Bolivian community center (unknown photographer in Gaceta AeroNautica; Escobar, November 2019)
The derelict fuselage of Gatari Air Fellowship PK-HNN (11119) was seen dumped in a scrap yard near Bogor, south of Jakarta. The special color scheme from its time with Citilink (as PK-GFS) is still clearly recognizable (Muhammed Sabki at CNBCIndonesia.com; Bogor, April 4, 2019)
After some months of storage at home base Larnaca, two TUS Airways Fokkers were ferried to Groningen-Eelde for maintenance and further storage until they can be sold no a new owner: one F100, 5B-DDE (11427) and one F70, 5B-DDA (11536) (Jaap Niemeijer and Menno Molenaar, respectively; Eelde, April 16, 2020)
As the two Fokkers mentioned above are no longer operated by TUS Airways, the lessor wanted to have them re-registered in Guernsey, as many leasing companies do nowadays. The F100 is now marked as 2-BDDE (11427), whereas the F70 carries 2-BDDA (11536). The Guernsey registrations were applied April 21, 2020 (Hendrik Cazemier; Eelde, April 24, 2020)
Credits
All photographers, Air-Britain News, Airlineroute, Aviation Herald, Aviator.aero, CH-Aviation, FlightAware, Hans Groen, Jan Homma, Greg Hyde, Luchtvaartnieuws, Juraj Ondruš (airliners.sk), Planespotters.net, Skyliner, Jacques Vooren, Henk Wadman.
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