Fokkernews July 2025 (issue 91)
General news
Network Airlines, doing business as QantasLink, has put the entire F100 fleet of 16 units up for sale. According to the current planning, the first ones will be available in October 2025 and the last two by March 2028. See below for details of the individual aircraft.
Fokker F27, Fokker 50 & Fokker 60
| c/n | type | new registration | registration | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10295 | 400 | 5Y-SEP | Safari Express Cargo. After some four months at Rand for maintenance and engine swap, this Friendship returned to Kenya 8 June 2025. It resumed cargo flights out of Mogadishu in July. Reportedly it will receive a real company livery soon. | |
| 10607 | 500F | PK-MFK | Merpati. The all-white Friendship that has been stored on the platform for many years is now reported to be taken apart: tail and wing sections have been separated from the fuselage. | |
| 20223 | 50 | 7Q-SMO | The construction number has now been confirmed, and the aircraft is indeed the previous 5Y-SMO. It is active from Mogadishu, still for an unknown operator in all white paint. | |
| 20324 | 604 | AE-565 | Peru Navy. On a personnel transport flight on 14 July 2025 to San Juan de Marcona (Capitán de Navío Armando Figueroa Roggero Naval Base) in southern Peru the F60 UTA experienced a runway excursion after landing and ended on sandy ground. The three persons on board remained uninjured, the right-hand gear collapsed causing substantial damage to the airplane. As far as we know this is the first accident in the history of the four F60s that were built. |
Fokker F28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100
| c/n | type | new registration | registration | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11020 | 1000 | TC-53 | Argentina Air Force (LADE) was seen flying from El Palomar Air Base, on 18 July to Mendoza and back and on 19 July a return flight to Córdoba. | |
| 11038 | 1000 | VH-XNG | Aviation Australia. This instructional Fellowship was noted outdoors at Brisbane for the first time since many years. It had to make room for a former QantasLink B717. Since transport of the Fellowship to the Queensland Aviation Museum in Caloundra museum appears too expensive, it will be scrapped in Brisbane soon. | |
| 11203 | 4000 | T-51 | Argentina Air Force (LADE) was also active out of El Palomar Air Base: to Mendoza on 11 July 2025 and to Córdoba on 12 July. | |
| 11312 | 100 | VH-NHO | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2026. | |
| 11334 | 100 | VH-FNC | Alliance Airlines. Seen stored at Brisbane July 2025 without engines and windows taped. | |
| 11399 | 100 | VH-NHP | Network (QantasLink). Seen stored at Perth 16 June 2025, all white and missing various parts. | |
| 11449 | 100 | VH-NHM | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2027. | |
| 11457 | 100 | VH-NQE | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2027. | |
| 11458 | 100 | VH-NHF | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2027. | |
| 11464 | 100 | VH-NHJ | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2028. | |
| 11465 | 100 | VH-NHK | Network (QantasLink). Seen stored at Perth 16 June 2025, all white without engines. | |
| 11467 | 100 | VH-NHY | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2025. | |
| 11469 | 100 | VH-NHN | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2027. | |
| 11479 | 100 | VH-NHI | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2028. | |
| 11482 | 100 | VH-NHV | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2027. | |
| 11490 | 100 | VH-NHA | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2026. | |
| 11502 | 100 | VH-NPU | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2025. | |
| 11506 | 100 | VH-NHQ | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2027. | |
| 11514 | 100 | VH-NHG | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of March 2027. | |
| 11515 | 100 | VH-NHZ | Network (QantasLink). Offered for sale as of October 2025. | |
| 11529 | 70 | VH-NUO | Alliance Airlines. Seen stored at Brisbane July 2025 without engines. | |
| 11570 | 70 | PZ-TFB | Fly AllWays. The F70 was impounded at Bonaire on 10 July 2025 during a fuel stop en route from Havana to Paramaribo. Recently, the EU banned all aircraft registered in Surinam for operational safety concerns. Bonaire is formally part of the Netherlands and thus subject to EU rulings. | |
| 11572 | 70 | VH-NKQ | Alliance Airlines has leased this F70 to Virgin Australia Regional Airlines for an unknown period. |
The oldest Friendship still flying was recently overhauled in South Africa and resumed service in Kenya and Somalia. Safari Express Cargo 5Y-SEP (10295) also got a new coat of paint; maybe titles and logo will be added. (Kiwanuka Ezra Donwilson; Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta; 6 July 2025)
Peru Navy F60 AE-565 (20324) was damaged after it overran the runway and broke its right-hand landing gear. Unfortunately a poor-quality picture, but it clearly shows how the aircraft came to a stop. (Latina Noticias Peru; San Juan de Marcona, 14 July 2025)
Fellowship VH-XNG (11038) that was used as an instructional airframe at the Aviation Australia Brisbane campus, was noted outdoors in its new livery. It will soon be history now the scrapman is waiting. (Bert van Drunick; Brisbane, 19 July 2025)
Argentinian Air Force F28 T50 (11048) looks in reasonable condition externally, but the interior is in poor shape. We guess that it will never fly again. (Thiago Panaccia; El Palomar Air Base, 30 June 2025)
In our May edition we wrote that Alliance Airlines VH-VIF (11406) was cancelled from the register, being withdrawn from use. This picture shows the reason: it is in the process of being parted out and finally the scrapman will do his work. (Patrick Higgins; Melbourne-Tullamarine, 7 June 2025)
At the occasion of its 50th anniversary Air Niugini has applied decals on F70 P2-ANT (11577). Notably, these are in a different layout compared to those on sistership P2-ANR (see Fokkernews 74). (Becklectic; Port Moresby, 10 June 2025)
After the Netherlands Transport Museum in Nieuw Vennep had to close down in March 2023, their assets were put on auction last May. Two Fokker items were sold: a cockpit section that Fokker used for skin polishing tests for the American Airlines order and a tail section. The buyer is unknown. The origin of the cockpit section is ambiguous, some sources state that it is from the second F28 prototype (PH-WEV, 11002), others suppose it is from a so-called Test Article (TA) used for static fatigue testing. The tail section is most likely from a TA. (onlineveilingmeester.nl; May 2025)
Credits
All photographers named above, ATDB News, Avcom forum, Aviation Safety Network, Aviator.aero, Bonaire.nu, Gonzalo Carballo, Merv Crowe, Bert van Drunick, Frank Ellemers, Walter de Groot, Jan Homma, Greg Hyde, Luchtvaartnieuws, MyAirTrade, Mads Oyen, Tom Perkins, Scramble, Jacques Vooren, Henk Wadman.
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