Export registration E-1145 / PH-EZL placed on aircraft

First flown as PH-EZL in US Air livery - September 20, 1991

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N888AU - October 3, 1991

Registered to Fokker Aircraft USA Inc

Export registration E-1145 / PH-EZL removed from aircraft - October 8, 1991

Departed Amsterdam on delivery to US Air via Reykjavik - October 10, 1991

Registered to US Air Inc - October 15, 1991

Transferred to US Airways when US Air renamed - February 27, 1997

Operated its final US Airways revenue service Charlotte-Pittsburgh - December 1, 2001

Ferried Pittsburgh-Mojave for storage - December 4, 2001

Sold to The Employees Retirement System of Alabama - 2004

Registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest / ERSA - May 23, 2004

Sold to Alliance Airlines

Arrived Brisbane as 'Southern Cross 241' at conclusion of delivery flight - August 9, 2005

Ferry route: Camarillo-Payne Field Washington-Anchorage-Nome-Magadan Russia-

Yuzhno Sakhalinsk Russia-Cheju South Korea-Manila-Biak

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FKD - August 25, 2005

Registered to Alliance Airlines, Brisbane

Operated first Alliance revenue service Townsville-Phosphate Hill as QQ835 - December 13, 2006

Current

VH-FKD. Alliance - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, June 2007.

 

VH-FKD. Alliance - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, February 2009.