VH-FNI. Fokker F.27-2013. c/n 10181.


First flown as PH-FCV - July 6, 1961

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNI - June 26, 1961

Delivered new to Ansett-A.N.A. at Melbourne - July 25, 1961

Flew first service for Ansett-A.N.A. - July 1961

Used to transport 'The Beatles' during Australian tour - Adelaide-Melbourne - June 14, 1964

Flew its last Ansett-ANA service - April 15, 1968

Painted in Airlines of South Australia colors - aircraft named 'City of Whyalla'

Registered to Airlines of South Australia - May 10, 1968

Involved in a highjacking incident on approach to Alice Springs Airport - November 15, 1972

Flew its last Ansett Airlines of Australia service - Wynyard-Melbourne - December 18, 1980

Sold to Commercial Airways - Comair - January 16, 1981

Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Comair - becoming ZS-JVI - January 23, 1981

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - February 2, 1981

Withdrawn from Comair service and stored - November 1997

Sold to JODA Partnership - becoming N863MA - November 25, 1997

Delivered to Lima, Peru - February 14, 1998

Leased to AeroCondor Peru SA - becoming OB-1693 - April 30, 1998

Current as of 2005


VH-FNI. Ansett-A.N.A. - in its original livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, March 1962.

(Image 1999-041. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNI. Ansett-A.N.A. - in its original livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, November 1962.

(Image 1999-405. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNI. Ansett-A.N.A. - in its final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(Image 1999-406. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNI. Ansett-A.N.A. - in its final livery, date unknown.

(Image 1999-870. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNI. Airlines of South Australia - in the original livery at Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(Image 1999-565. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-FNI. Airlines of South Australia - in the original livery at Adelaide Airport, May 1969.

(Image 1999-564. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNI. Ansett Airlines of South Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Adelaide Airport, October 1972.

(Image 1999-457. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-FNI. Ansett Airlines of Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, December 1979.

(Image 1999-566. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNI. Ansett Airlines of Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, January 1980.

(Image 1999-567. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNI. Ansett Airlines of Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Melbourne Airport, January 1980.

(Image 1999-568. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNI. Comair - in the original livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, January 1981.

(Image 1999-591. R. Waller Collection)

VH-FNI. Comair - in the original livery at Johannesburg Airport, January 1981.

(Image 1999-492. R. N. Smith Collection)

ZS-KVI. Comair - in the modified livery at Johannesburg Airport, February 1983.

(Image 1999-569. R. N. Smith Collection)

ZS-KVI. Comair - in the modified livery at Johannesburg Airport, October 1987.

(Image 1999-570. R. N. Smith Collection)

 

ZS-KVI. Comair - in the final livery at Johannesburg Airport, August 1996.

(Image 1999-571. I. Malcolm Photograph)