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    Airframe Family: Fokker F-27
    Latest Model:F-27-400
    Construction Number:10315
    Last Civil Registration:VH-WAN
    Compressed ID:Fokker F-27-400 cn 10315 cr VH-WAN
    Latest Owner or Location:Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland

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    Dates

    Event

    December 1966

    Constructed as a F-27-400.

    13 December 1966

    To NV Kon. Ned. Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker with new c/r PH-FKK.

    13 December 1966

    First flight.

    16 December 1966

    To Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd with new c/r VH-FNQ.

    From 17 December 1966 to 24 December 1966

    Ferry flight.
    Ferry route: Amsterdam - Rome - Athens - Beirut - Damascus - Bahrain - Karachi - Delhi - Calcutta - Bangkok -Singapore - Jakarta - Bali - Darwin - Alice Springs - Melbourne.

    December 1966

    Loaned to Ansett-ANA.

    1 November 1968

    Loaned to Ansett Airlines of Australia.

    From 29 April 1981 to 1 August 1982

    Loaned to Ansett Airlines of Northern Australia.

    Circa 1983

    Leased to Ansett Air Freight.

    Circa 1984

    Returned from lease.

    From 27 July 1984 to 18 March 1988

    Loaned to Air N. S. W.

    18 March 1988

    Loaned to Ansett.

    21 August 1989

    Withdrawn from use.
    Ferried Cairns - Melbourne (Tullamarine) for storage.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-TRA.

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-WAN.

    4 March 2003


    Photographer: Bill Wordsworth
    Notes: Aircraft in storage at Tamworth, New South Wales.

    To Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, Queensland.
    View the Location Dossier

    By 31 January 2009

    Markings Applied: VH-WAN

    31 January 2009


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At Queensland Air Museum

    15 October 2024


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At the Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra, QLD
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     AussieAirliners.org by R. N. Smith
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
    Bill Wordsworth
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