VH-FNC. Fokker F.27-2013. c/n 10143.


First flown as PH-FBH - December 29, 1959

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNC - February 4, 1960

Delivered new to Airlines of New South Wales at Melbourne - February 12, 1960

Arrived in full Ansett-A.N.A. colors and was repainted

Flew its first Airlines of N.S.W. service - February 1960

Painted in the Ansett Airlines of N.S.W. 'Delta' colors - October 31, 1969

Withdrawn from Ansett Airlines of N.S.W. service - October 5, 1976

Ferried to Melbourne for storage - November 5, 1976

Sold to Australian Aircraft Sales - December 21, 1976

Sold to Merpati Nusantara Airlines - becoming PK-MFR - July 25, 1977

Repainted in Melbourne in Merpati colors

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - May 26, 1977

Withdrawn from Merpati service and stored Surabaya, Indonesia - February 1994

Scrapped - October 1998


VH-FNC. Airlines of N.S.W. - in its original livery at Sydney Airport, January 1966.

(Image 1999-387. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNC. Airlines of N.S.W. - in its final livery at Sydney Airport, March 1967.

(Image 1999-239. B. Dannecker Collection)

VH-FNC. Airlines of N.S.W. - in its final livery at Sydney Airport, December 1968.

(Image 1999-241. B. Dannecker Collection)

VH-FNC. Airlines of N.S.W. - in its final livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, May 1969.

(Image 1999-240. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNC. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1975.

(Image 1999-784. P. J. Gates Photograph)

VH-FNC. Ansett Airlines of New South Wales - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, November 1976.

(Image 1999-838. R. N. Smith Photograph)

PK-MFR. Merpati Nusantara Airlines - in the original livery at Jakarta Airport, August 1982.

(Image 1999-839. R. N. Smith Collection)