Fokkernews December 2024 (issue 84)

General news

Fly All Ways has taken delivery of a first A320, which will serve destinations in South and North America as well as across the Caribbean. It remains to be seen if this will make the F70 to disappear from the fleet.

Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60

c/n type new registration registration comment
10201 200 G-BCDN This ex-Air UK Friendship that is part of the City of Norwich Aviation Museum collection since March 2020 will be transformed into a classroom and meeting venue at the same location. Groups and organizations will be able to use it for their gatherings.
10295 400 5Y-SEP Safari Express Cargo. Currently parked at Mogadishu, awaiting the new engine from South Africa that was initially intended for sister ship 5Y-SEC (11550).
10369 500 5Y-GMC AeroSpace Consortium. Seen 19 November 2024 at Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta in the storage corner.
10370 500 5Y-CCE Icon Aviation. Since its mishap in 2022 sitting on the dump of Juba airport, being used for spare parts.
10378 500 5Y-GMD AeroSpace Consortium. Seen 19 November 2024 at Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, during maintenance at African Express Airways.
10448 500 5Y-JUU Astral Aviation. This F27 is used as a spare parts source at Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta.
10530 500CRF 5X-FFD Fly540. Despite several attemps to sell it by auction, the wreck is still laying on the Nairobi-Wilson dump, seen 18 November 2024.
20108 50 5Y-SED Safe Air Company. The F50 no longer belongs to the Skyward fleet.
20111 50 5Y-MIS Skyward Express. Wreck still present on the dump at Nairobi-Wislon 18 November 2024.
20112 50 5Y-SMS Skyward Express. Noted at Nairobi-Wilson on 19 November 2024, all white.
20116 50 5Y-SVN Rudufu. Seen broken up in long-term storage area at Nairobi-Wilson on 18 November 2024, red tail.
20121 50 5Y-WFA Rudufu. Seen at Nairobi-Wilson 18 November 2024 no engines, no titles or logos.
20122 50 5Y-SMX Skyward Express. Also this F50, or what is left of it, is still resident of the Nairobi-Wilson graveyard. Seen 18 November 2024.
20192 50 5Y-SMZ Skyward Express. One of the many abandoned F50s in the boneyard of Nairobi-Wilson, seen on 18 November 2024.
20200 50 (5Y-FAD) Freedom Airline Express. Seen at Nairobi-Wilson 18 November 2024 stored, with Daruro sticker, without registration and without engines.
20207 50 5Y-GIG Bush Air Safaris. Permanently withdrawn from use and seen at Nairobi-Wilson 18 November 2024.
20209 50 5Y-JWX Jetways. The remains of this F50 were noted in the dump corner of Nairobi-Wilson 18 November 2024.
20244 50 5Y-IZO Silverstone. Wreck still on the dump at Nairobi-Wislon 18 November 2024.
20260 50 5Y-JRN Skyward Express. Seen 18 November 2024, derelict in the dump corner at Nairobi-Wilson.
20275 50 EP-FQC Qeshm Air. Seen derelict at Kish airport on 11 December 2024, in faded Qeshm livery. The wreck is sitting next to two other F50s, which we believe are EP-FQD (20265) and EP-FQA (20274). The three are visible at Google Earth 26.525199, 53.952632.
20282 502 5Y-FAI Freedom Airline Express. Seen at Nairobi-Wilson 18 November 2024, with black nose cone, without engines and missing parts, so maybe broken up.
20286 50 HP-1891PST Air Panama. The F50 that lost a panel from the rear door on 3 September 2024 (unidentified in Fokkernews 83, November 2024) is now known.

Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100

c/n type new registration registration comment
11038 1000 VH-XNG Aviation Australia. The registration was cancelled on 2 December 2024 as 'withdrawn from use'. According to our most recent information the aircraft is still an instructional airframe in a hangar of the Aviation Australia Campus at Brisbane.
11321 100 5Y-SKF Skyward Express. Delivered from Woensdrecht to Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta via Luxembourg, El Alamein and Djibouti on 20 and 21 December 2024.
11329 100 EP-ATG Iran Aseman Airlines. On 22 December 2024 the first all-female flight in Iran landed on Mashad airport. The entire crew and all passengers were women.
11407 100 EP-NFA Karun Airlines. Seen in a hangar at Ahwaz on 16 December 2024 in the new blue-purple tail livery

The forward section of F27 Friendship that was in service with Seven Air lately as EC-GYM (10427) is in use as a game object in the Hangar37 Battlefield park, Tarajalillo Beach, Gran Canaria. (Grumman G1159; Tarajalillo, 13 November 2024)

 

As reported previously, PS Aero Friendship AP-BHZ (10686) is now on display at Krauss Logistics in Wega, near Bad Wildungen, Germany, still in the livery of former operator ASSL. The current user seems to be a big fan of musician André Rieu and his orchestra, as the right hand side has three pictures of him. See also the Friendship’s left hand side in Fokkernews 75. (Michael Riedl via Chris Witt; Wega near Bad Wildungen, Germany, 15 July 2024)

 

One of the many anonymous F50s in Kenya is 5Y-WFA (20121) that is currently stored without engines, but otherwise apparently intact. We are not sure whether Buff Air Service or Rudufu is the actual operator. (André Alders; Nairobi-Wilson, 18 November 2024)

 

The remains of Qeshm Air F50 EP-FQC (20275) are situated in the dump area of Kish airport since the aircraft was abandoned over 12 years ago. (Dara Zarbaf on Planespotters.net; Kish, 11 December 2024)

 

After almost eight months of maintenance Skyward Express latest Fokker 100, 5Y-SKF (11321), departed from Woensdrecht on delivery to Kenya. As usual the first destination was Luxembourg for a fuel stop. (Werner Verbogt; Woensdrecht, 20 December 2024)

 

In Ahwaz, Iran, Karun Airlines has applied their newest livery to EP-NFA (11407), their fourth F100 sporting these colors. We can assume that it will soon re-enter service. (Hasam_hsnzde on JetPhotos; Ahwaz, 16 December 2024)

 

The present condition of BekAir F100 UP-F1012 (11426) shows a completely cannibalized aircraft; only the hull is remaining. (Eric Wang on Jetphotos; Almaty, 5 October 2024)

 

Credits

All photographers named above, André Alders, AMCAR, Aviation Herald, Aviation Safety Network, Aviator.aero, Frank Ellemers, FL360aero, Walter de Groot, Al Gunn, Jan Homma, Greg Hyde, Skyliner, Jacques Vooren, Henk Wadman, WoensdrechtAS forum.