VH-FNN Fokker F.27

VH-FNN. Fokker F.27-2087. c/n 10297.

First flown as PH-FIR - March 25, 1966

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-FNN - March 31, 1966

Delivered new to Queensland Airlines at Melbourne - April 8, 1966

Delivered to Queensland Airlines in Brisbane - April 16, 1966

Aircraft was named ' Bert Hinkler'

Flew first service for Queensland Airlines - April 26, 1966

Returned to Melbourne for repainting in Ansett-A.N.A. colors - November 26, 1966

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

Leased to Airlines of South Australia - February 1968

Registered to Ansett-M.A.L. - May 9, 1968

Leased to Air Niugini - November 1, 1973

Sold to Air Niugini - July 1, 1976

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - July 19, 1976

Registered to Air Niugini as P2-ANM - July 20, 1976

Sold to Luxair - becoming LX-LGJ - May 25, 1984

Sold to Dutch Asset Leasing Company - February 9, 1989

Leased to Mesaba Airlines / Northwest Airlink - becoming N279MA - February 1989

Withdrawn from Northwest Airlink service and stored at Kingman, Arizona - September 1994

Sold to US Bancorp Leasing and leased to Eagle Jet Charter - June 8, 1995

Sold to Eagle Canyon Airlines - August 21, 1995

Transferred to Scenic Airlines - 1999

Withdrawn from service & seen stored at Boulder City Airport - December 10, 2003


VH-FNN. Queensland Airlines - in its final livery, location and date unknown. (Image 1999-409. R. N. Smith Collection)	VH-FNN. Queensland Airlines - in its final livery at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, date unknown. (Image 1999-316. P. J. Gates Collection)

VH-FNN. Ansett-MAL - in the final Ansett-ANA livery, location & date unknown. (Image 1999-774. P. J. Gates Collection)

P2-ANM. Air Niugini National Airline of Papua New Guinea - full livery at Port Morseby, January 1982. (Image 1999-517. R. N. Smith Collection)	P2-ANM. Air Niugini National Airline of Papua New Guinea - full livery at Brisbane Airport, date unknown. (Image 1999-769. P. J. Gates Photograph)

LX-LGJ. Luxair - in its original livery at Ostend Airport, December 1984. (Image 1999-510. R. N. Smith Collection)	LX-LGJ. Luxair - in its revised livery at Ostend Airport, December 1988. (Image 1999-318. R. N. Smith Collection)

LX-LGJ. Luxair - in its final livery , date and location unknown. (Image 1999-016. P. J. Gates Collection)	N279MA. Northwest Airlink - in the basic Luxair livery, February 1989. (Image 1999-108. R. N. Smith Collection)

N279MA. Northwest Airlink - in the full livery at unknown airport, October 1989. (Image 1999-109. R. N. Smith Collection)	N279MA. Northwest Airlink - in the full livery at unknown airport, February 1990. (Image 1999-020. P. J. Gates Collection)

N279MA. Northwest Airlink Mesaba - in the full livery at unknown airport, February 1990. (Image 1999-019. P. J. Gates Collection)	N279MA. Eagle - in the full livery at unknown airport, July 1996. (Image 1999-518. R. N. Smith Collection)