VH-TFJ Fokker F.27
Friendship 200 'Fred
Brockman'
(c/n 10135)
Unlike the
Dash-100s, TAA's series 200 machines were not renamed upon
arrival. -TFJ began
services in November 1969.
Greg Banfield's shot aboive was taken at Macot in July 1964. It
was seconded to the airline's New Guinea operations in March 1967 and
later re-named 'Rabaul'.
It was sold to Air
Nuigini in 1974 and became P2-TFJ, (later P2-ANC). In 1984
the Friendship
went to Air UK as G-BLML. It was re-registered G-SOFS in 1987
when sold to Nordic Oil
Services Ltd and
finally withdrawn from service at Southend Airport in 1991 having
previously
been sold to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
Protection Agency.