Entered onto Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FPI - April 9, 1970

Registered to Fokker NV

First flown as PH-FPI - April 13, 1970

Delivered new to Sterling Airways - June 10, 1970

Entered onto Danish Aircraft Register as OY-STN - June 10, 1970

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - June 10, 1970

Leased to the United Nations as OY-STN - January 18 to May 31, 1973

Sold to East West Airlines - September 12, 1973

Arrived Tamworth at conclusion of delivery flight in full Sterling livery - November 14, 1973

Overhauled and repainted at Tamworth

Entered onto Australian Aircraft Register as VH-EWN - December 19, 1973

Registered to East West Airlines Ltd

Aircraft named 'The Sunshine Coast'

Operated first East West revenue service - Sydney-Port Macquarie - December 21, 1973

Registered to East West Airlines (Operations) Ltd - March 9, 1977

Withdrawn from service and stored Tamworth - October 11, 1983.

Sold to Fokker

Departed Tamworth on delivery flight to Holland - October 17, 1983

Cancelled from Australian Aircraft Register - October 28, 1983

Placed in storage at Ypenburg

Entered onto Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-EXF - May 10, 1984

Cancelled from Dutch Aircraft Register - June 7, 1984

Sold to Aircraft Finance & Trading for lease to MVA - June 9, 1984

Entered onto U.S. Aircraft Register as N271FA - June 9, 1984

Departed Amsterdam on delivery flight to U.S.A. - June 9, 1984

Leased to Air Wisconsin following merger with M.V.A. - May 17, 1985

Returned to Aircraft Finance & Trading - November 1985

Leased to Mesaba Airlines as N271FA - March 1986 to July 1993

Leased to Mahalo Air - becoming N981MA - August 6, 1993

Departed California on delivery flight to Honolulu - September 22, 1993

Sold to Mahalo Air - February 4, 1994

Reregistered N981MA - February 24, 1994

Aircraft was named ' The Honu'

Withdrawn from service and stored Honolulu Airport - May 1, 1994

Mahalo Air was declared bankrupt - May 31, 1994

Sold to Air 1st Aviation Co. Inc - October 29, 1996

Registered to Air 1st Aviation Co. Inc - December 5, 1996

Ferried to Mena, Arizona for storage - December 1996

Converted to freighter configuration by Reeb Air - January 1998

Cancelled from U.S. Aircraft Register - March 27, 1998

Entered onto German Aircraft Register as D-ACCS

Sold to Sky Team GmbH - trading as ECCS Air Cargo Service - April 8, 1998

Entered service with SkyTeam on Frankfurt-Coventry route - April 20, 1998

Withdrawn from service and stored when SkyTeam ceased operations - June 2002

Stored at Karlsruhe-Baden Baden, Germany

Scrapping commenced - December 2004

OY-STN. Sterling - in the original livery at Copenhagen Airport, September 1970.

(Image 1999-764. R. N. Smith Collection)

OY-STN. Sterling - in the original livery at Copenhagen Airport, August 1972.

(Image 1999-501. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, January 1978.

(Image 1999-201. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, May 1979.

(Image 1999-663. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, June 1979.

(Image 1999-202. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, September 1980.

(Image 1999-662. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, December 1980.

(Image 1999-326. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery at Sydney Airport, October 1982.

(Image 1999-743. E. D. Daw Photograph)

VH-EWN. East West - in the full livery, location and date unknown.

(Image 1993-122. P. J. Gates Collection)

N271FA. M.V.A. - in the full livery at Amsterdam Airport, June 1984.

(Image 1999-664. R. N. Smith Collection)

N271FA. Mesaba Northwest Airlink - in the Mesaba livery at unknown airport, November 1985.

(Image 1999-107. R. N. Smith Collection)

N271FA. Northwest Orient Airlink - in the old livery at unknown airport, August 1987.

(Image 1999-665. R. N. Smith Collection)

N981MA. Mahalo Air - in the full livery at Honolulu Airport, March 1994.

(Image 1999-029. P. J. Gates Collection)

N981MA. Mahalo Air - in the full livery at Honolulu Airport, September 1996.

(Image 1999-890. H. Groen Collection)

D-ACCS. SkyTeam - in the full livery at unknown location, September 1998.

(Image 1999-762. R. N. Smith Collection)