G-BVOB (c/n 10366) - A Pictorial History
- First flight 27 July 1968. Fokker Test registration PH-FMN.
- Delivered to initial customer French airline Air Inter on 03Aug1968, registered F-BPNA
- Sold to Brazilian airline Rio Sul. Registered PT-LZM and delivered 25Nov86
- Withdrawn from service August 1992 and stored Rio de Janeiro.
- Ferried to Miami 16May93, then stored at Mena, Arizona.
- Re-registered PH-FMN by owners Aircraft Financing and Trading BV. ferried to Norwich 09Mar94.
- Delivered to AirUK as G-BVOB
- Sold/Leased ? to Jersey European Airways.
- Sold to BAC Group and delivered to BAC Express in 1997.
- Converted to E-Class full-freighter configuration.
- Final flight on 08th July 2005 ABR02P Bournemouth to Southend, landing at 0633 UTC. Aircraft placed into storage for possible sale.
- Fuselage scrapped 21Oct09.
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PT-LZM at Rio De Janeiro/Santos Dumont April 1988
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F-BPNA at Paris/Charles de Gaulle 02Jun83
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Photographer: Michel Gilliand
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G-BVOB at Dublin 27 October 2002
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Photographer Andrew aka EI-AMD on flickr.com
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G-BVOB Humberside, UK 1995
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Photographer: Steve aka sja320 on Flickr.com.
"Modern colours for an old bird. Air UK Fokker F27 Friendship G-BVOB sits in the sunshine at Humberside in 1995. The type's sole duty from the airport at the time was two returns per day to Aberdeen via Teesside with a day off on Saturdays!"
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F-BPNA operating for Air Inter at Nice, France in March 1980
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G-BVOB in Aberdeen, July 1994
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Photographer: David Unsworth. www.worldairimages.com
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PT-LZM
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G-BVOB at Bristol, 23 July 2003
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Photographer: Ernie Horler
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