VH-TQP  Fokker F.27 Friendship 600    'John McKinley'                             c/n  10387)

                                 

                                          Operated its first revenue service on January 10, 1969.    Seen here at Essendon in original TAA
                                          markings in January 1969 by Danny Tanner.      Two years later it had the 'blue tail'.  -TQP was
                                          withdrawn from TAA use in 1983.  It went to SAS in 1984 and became SE-IRG 'Vigge Viking'.
                                          Then to Fedex Europe as PH-FNK, then to the UK as G-FEAD.      In 1992 it was transferred
                                          to Fedex in the US and became N741FE.  In 2005 it was leased to Empire Airlines.  It is still on
                                          the US register (2017) with Fedex as the owner.