In our article ‘White-tail’ F50s: white and colored’, we wrote that these ‘white-tail’ F50s were rarely observed on other locations than Amsterdam and Woensdrecht. Thanks to Emile Lancée we can now present a rare photo from abroad: he was lucky enough to be part of the Fokker party that provided  demonstrations for the Aramco oil company. They brought PH-MXH (20286) from Riyad to a landing strip somewhere in the Saudi desert, that Aramco used for transporting staff and equipment to and from one of their oil fields. It was an unpaved runway, marked with lines consisting of residual oil poured on the sand. This specific trip was for demonstrating the turnaround behavior of the F50 on soft surface, because Aramco’s F27 Friendships had their nose wheel dug often into the sand surface, which disrupted their operations. The F50 passed the trial, but Aramco never ordered F50s as the successors of their F27s. (Emile Lancée; Saudi desert, August 1993)