Entered onto the Dutch Aircraft Register as PH-FAG (C of A 636) - January 7, 1959

Registered to N.V. KNV Fokker

First flown - January 16, 1959

Accepted by Trans Australia Airlines at Schiphol - June 13, 1959

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-TFA - June 15, 1959

Cancelled from the Dutch Aircraft Register - June 22, 1959

Arrived Melbourne's Essendon Airport at conclusion of delivery flight - June 24, 1959

Flight crew: Capts L.P. Lee, N. Grady; Navigator M. Darby

Aircraft originally named 'Dirk Hartog'

Renamed 'Charles Todd' - June 24, 1959

Operated its first revenue service with Trans Australia Airlines - July 9, 1959

Leased to Guinea Airways Ltd at various times - July 30, 1959 to January 17, 1960

Returned to Fokker for conversion to a Series 200 aircraft - 1965

First test flight as a 200 Series aircraft - January 1, 1966

Transferred to New Guinea operations - October 1969

Aircraft renamed 'Lae'

Sold to Air Niugini - November 1, 1973

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - June 1, 1974

Reregistered P2-TFA - June 1, 1974

Reregistered P2-ANA - November 10, 1975

Sold to Australian Aircraft Sales - January 1976

Sold to Aerolineas de Guatemala Aviateca - becoming TG-AIA - May 25, 1978

Delivered to Aerolineas de Guatemala Aviateca - August 26, 1978

Withdrawn from use - 1982

Sold to Guatemalan Air Force - January 1, 1983

Ferried to Fokker's Ypenburg facility via a Short Belfast for overhaul - April 2, 1984

Test flown as '1094' for Guatemalan Air Force - January 14, 1985

Withdrawn from use and stored at La Aurota, Guatemala - December 1985

Observed withdrawn from use without engines at La Aurota - July 31, 2000

Current status?

PH-FAG. Trans Australia Airlines - in the original 'silver tail' colors in Holland, February 1959.

(Image 1999-084. P. J. Gates Collection via Fokker)

VH-TFA. Trans Australia Airlines - in original 'dayglow' livery at Essendon Airport, September 1959.

(Image 1999-230. B. Dannecker Collection)

VH-TFA. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the 'white tail' livery at Essendon Airport, December 1963.

(Image 1999-297. John Hopton Photograph)

VH-TFA. TAA The Nation's Jetline - in the 'white tail' livery at Sydney Airport, December 1965.

(Image 1999-379. R. N. Smith Photograph)

VH-TFA. TAA Airlines of New Guinea - in its final livery at Mt Hagen Airport, August 1973.

(Image 1999-631. E. D. Daw Collection)

TG-AIA. Aviateca - in the original livery at Miami Airport, October 1978.

(Image 1993-073. R. N. Smith Collection)