Fokkernews July 2020 (issue 32)
General news
From 17 July 2020 Alliance Airlines will operate a new service to the Sunshine Coast. F100 will fly the Cairns - Maroochydore route three times per week.
The Kazakh Civil Aviation Authority has affirmed that the certificate of Bek Air was permanently withdrawn.
It seems that Fokkers are history for TUS Airways, now the airline plans to resume operations after summer as ELA Airways with Boeing 737 equipment.
Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60
| c/n | type | registration | new registration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10427 | 500 | EC-GYM | Seven Air. This Friendship was broken up in 2011 and the cockpit section is part of the Hangar 37 Paintball park at San Bartolomé, Gran Canaria (Google maps 27.785997, -15.504225). | |
| 20109 | 50 | OO-VLS | Air Antwerp. Ferried Antwerp to Malmö 22 June 2020 and back 3 July 2020 as ATW01F for maintenance prior to resumption of service. | |
| 20288 | 50 | 2-VGAS | 5Y-*** | Vermeer Global Aviation Services. Registration cancelled 23 April 2020. The aircraft, previously PJ-KVM with Insel Air, was sold to a still unknown operator in Kenya. |
| 20312 | 50 | VH-FKX | Alliance Airlines. Seen Adelaide 28 June 2020, stored without engines. |
Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100
| c/n | type | registration | new registration | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11321 | 100 | 4O-AOM | Montenegro Airlines. The visit to Bratislava 14 June 2020 that we reported in the previous edition, must have been for maintenance, as the aircraft has been noted again on the Podgorica-Dusseldorf service from 11 July onwards. | |
| 11324 | 100 | OE-IDY | Alliance Aviation Slovakia s.r.o. Registration cancelled May 2020. | |
| 11328 | 100 | PK-RJI | Ekspres Air/Premiair. Registration cancelled 28 September 2019. The airframe was reported in 2012 to be sold to Sky Aviation as PK-ECI, but this was apparently not taken up. | |
| 11466 | 100 | VH-VKO | Alliance Airlines Pty. Another ex-Helvetic F100 that was reduced to spare parts at Perth. The registration was cancelled 22 June 2020 as 'no longer to be used as an aircraft'. | |
| 11497 | 100 | EP-AWZ | Karun Airlines. On 19 June 2020 flight NV2633 from Ahwaz to Rasht had to return to Ahwaz due to thick smoke entering the back of the cabin. It made a safe landing 30 min after departure and there were no injuries. |
On 5 July 2020 Buff Air Services F50 5Y-WFC (20250), coming from Mogadishu on a humanitarian cargo flight, suffered an incident at Bardere airstrip in Gedo province, southwest Somalia. When backtracking after landing, the starboard tires burst and the undercarriage collapsed, probably as a result of metal fatigue. There were only slight injuries among the five crew. Damages to the plane included the right hand wingtip and propeller as well as the nose wheel and belly. It may very well be a write-off (Robert Alai at Twitter; Bardere, 5 July 2020)
In 2006 CATA Lineas Aereas went out of business and the Fairchild fleet was abandoned at Moron airport, Argentina. In 2019, the remains of at least two aircraft were acquired by Ariel Eichenberger, a Swiss-Argentine artist who designs furniture and utensils from aircraft parts, known as "Voneich aircraft art". Two aircraft identified are LV-AZV, an F-27J (070; left) and LV-MGW, an FH-227B (568, right) that never was painted in the CATA house colors, but retained the livery of a previous operator (Voneich Art at Facebook; unknown location, July 2019 and Mactrailoficial at Instagram; San Fernando, Buenos Aires, 27 June 2020)
Alliance Airlines F100 OE-IDY (11324, ex Helvetic Airways HB-JVH) was dismantled at Bratislava airport and transported to the Fantazia Liptov park in northern Slovakia (Jozef Kytka at Facebook; Bratislava, 19 June 2020)
The Brazilian aviation market website Aero Jota is offering the hull of Avianca F100 PR-OAF (11415). Starting price is 69,000 Real, approximately 11,500 euro. Wings, pantry, seats and windows are included, but not the engines and neither the cockpit. Transportation costs are to be borne by the buyer (Pedro A.R. Nunes at Flickr; Brasilia, 4 September 2019)
One of the five ex-Helvetic F100 that were acquired by Alliance Airlines was broken up after all useable parts had been removed. Two large pieces of VH-VKO (11466) were trucked out of Perth airport (Michael Cant; Perth, 23 June 2020)
In 2017 plans were launched for the new Dutch airline Air Hollandia, but these never materialized. One F100, PH-ABW (11493), was already adorned with their titles, but it never flew as such. It was deregistered 14 Jult 2018 and the company was declared bankrupt few months later. The aircraft has been lingering since at Maastricht-Aachen airport and was recently seen with the registration removed (William Musculus; Maastricht, 19 June 2020)
Credits
All photographers, Air-Britain News, Airlineroute.com, Aviation Herald, Aviator.aero, CH-Aviation, Flickr, Flightradar24, David Garbett, Walter de Groot, Greg Hyde, Jacques Vooren, Henk Wadman.
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