VH-FNM Fokker F.27

VH-FNM. Fokker F.27-2087. c/n 10292.

First flown as PH-FIK - January 10, 1966

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNM - January 14, 1966

Delivered new to Ansett-ANA at Melbourne - January 22, 1966

Flew first service for Ansett-ANA - February 14, 1966

Leased to Airlines of South Australia - November 1966

Operated Queensland Airlines services - November 27 - 30, 1966

Operated Queensland Airlines services - December 1 - 2, 1966 & December 4, 1966

Leased to Ansett-M.A.L. - February 1967

Returned to Ansett Airlines of Australia - November 1, 1973

Flew its last Ansett Airlines of Australia service - Gladstone-Brisbane - October 15, 1980

Leased to Bush Pilots Airways with an option to purchase & delivered to Cairns - October 25, 1980

Flew its first service with B.P.A. - Cairns-Groote Eylandt - October 27, 1980

Sold to Air Queensland - July 17. 1985

Withdrawn from service and placed in storage at Brisbane - August 1986

Returned to service - March 1987

Sold to Pakistan International - January 22, 1988

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - January 22, 1988

Departed Brisbane on delivery flight - January 23, 1988

Entered service with P.I.A. as AP-BDB - January 28, 1988

Still in service - 2003

Is believed that it may have been registered in the Cayman Islands in 2003 to comply with

U.S. Export-Import Bank's requirement related to P.I.A.'s purchase of Boeing 777 aircraft

Reportedly w.f.s. & stored mid 2004


VH-FNM. Ansett-A.N.A. - in its final livery at Sydney Airport, December 1966. (Image 1999-513. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-FNM. Ansett-M.A.L. - in the final Ansett-ANA livery, location & date unknown. (Image 1999-408. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNM. Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea - in the 'delta' livery at Essendon Airport, October 1970. (Image 1999-247. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-FNM. Ansett Airlines of Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown. (Image 1999-287. G. Wilkes Collection)	VH-FNM. Ansett Airlines of Australia - in the 'delta' livery at Brisbane Airport, May 1978. (Image 1999-608. E. D. Daw Photograph)

VH-FNM. B.P.A. - in the full livery at Cairns Airport, October 1981. (Image 1999-514. R. N. Smith Photograph)	VH-FNM. B.P.A. - in the full livery at Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport, November 1981. (Image 1999-514. R. N. Smith Collection)

VH-FNM. BPA - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown. (Image 1999-785. P. J. Gates Photograph)

VH-FNM. Air Queensland - in the full livery at Brisbane Airport, February 1983. (Image 1999-515. R. N. Smith Collection)	VH-FNM. Air Queensland - in the full livery at Cairns Airport, September 1983. (Image 1999-516. R. N. Smith Photograph)

	VH-FNM. Pakistan - in basic Air Queensland livery at Brisbane Airport, November 1987. (Image 1999-587. R. Waller Collection)

AP-BDB. Pakistan - in basic Air Queensland livery at Brisbane Airport, November 1987. (Image 1999-305. P. J. Gates Photograph)	AP-BDB. Pakistan - in basic Air Queensland livery at unknown airport, January 1988. (Image 1999-054. P. J. Gates Collection)