The Fokker F-28, 70 & 100 at Liverpool

[viscount]

I started this research while the xsorbit site was still 'on air', with the aim of having every visit to Liverpool by the Fokker F-28 Fellowship, Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 researched by the end of March and KLM using the type into Liverpool on a regular basis. When xsorbit suddenly went off the air, so did my research on this topic. However, as it is about a relevant and currently newsworthy type, I'll post what I have.

What I do have is the registration of every Fokker F-28 Fellowship, Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 to call at Liverpool in each calendar year. What I don't have fully researched is how many times each aircraft called during the year, when, why and where from/to. I suspect, for instance, that PH-MAT called a few more times than noted here so far.

However I hope that what follows will stir memories for those old enough to remember and provide knowledge for those young enough to learn of our aviation heritage.

If anyone wants to illustrate from their photo collections, I'd be delighted.

[viscount]

Visits during the decades of the 70's and 80's:

1970

The first Fokker F-28 Fellowship to visit Liverpool was PH-MAT of Martinair. It called on Friday 3rd April f&t Amsterdam with 2 passengers and 300kg of very urgently required ships spares. The following day it called again f&t Amsterdam, presumably to collected the engineers at least.

1971

Exactly a year later, on Saturday 3rd April PH-FPT operated by Martinair appeared at Liverpool f&t Amsterdam, a Grand National Day passenger charter. PH-FBT was a temporary replacement for PH-MAT with Martinair and still wore TTA (Turavia) colours - ( ex I-VAFE).

1972

Oddly a year and one week later, on Saturday 8th April PH-MAT of Martinair appeared again, this time routed Amsterdam-Heathrow in the morning and f&t Amsterdam in the evening - Grand National Day passenger charter.

1973

Eleven months later, on Wednesday 7th March, Martinair's PH-MAT called again, routed Amsterdam-Lisbon, having night-stopped at Liverpool. I can recall this one sweeping low over Allerton and Garston landing over Bryant & May's on to the short 17 runway. This runway was exceptionally rarely used by jets for landing. A few months later D-AHLC of Aviaction operated a Fords freight charter Hannover-Hamburg.





1976

After two years without a visit by type, Martinair appeared again right at the end of the year, on 23rd December with PH-MOL routing Amsterdam to Heathrow. The magazine of the time does not hint at why.

1979

A further two year gap. During the September Manchester strike closure, most of KLM's flights were operated by Douglas DC-9s. However on Saturday 8th September the morning rotation KL153/154 was operated by NLM Cityhopper's PH-CHI f&t Amsterdam.

1983

A further three year gap before NLM Cityhopper again operated into Liverpool instead of a strike shut Manchester on KL153/4 on a Saturday morning. PH-CHD f&t Amsterdam and on the ground Liverpool 0830-1110.

1984

A charter with Dutch visitors to the IGF (International Garden Festival) arrived on NLM Cityhopper PH-CHF on Saturday 9th June at 0945, leaving on 10th June 1715, f&t Amsterdam

1989

A four year gap brings us to a record year with 3 different aircraft. F-GBBX a Fellowship was one. Significantly the other two were the first Fokker 100 visits. On 23rd November PH-ZCK of Air Europe called on a crew training flight. The following month Manchester was again closed by strike action, Fokker 100 PH-KLG arrived on the morning KL153/4 rotation.

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Fokker F-28 Fellowship, Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 visits in the 1990s

1990

Three Air Europe Fokker 100s visits, presumably all on crew training details: PH-ZCL, PH-ZCM and PH-ZCN

1992

Having missed 1991, it was back to a Fokker Fellowship variant for the type's visit in 1992, in form of F-GDSK of TAT.

1993

The first British registered Fokker 100 to arrive at Liverpool was G-UKFA of Air UK.

1994

Although not recognised as such until now, 1994 saw the last visit to Liverpool by an F-28 Fellowship in the form of PH-CHB of KLM Cityhopper. On 6th January training flight KLM1801 was scheduled to train at Teesside, however weather there was poor, so when Leeds refused to take the training, PH-CHB came to Liverpool for 22 circuits, 3 go-arounds and one local.' operating f&t Amsterdam.

Also during the year Fokker 100 G-BVJA of British Midland made its first visit of many over the next few years.

1995

British Midland brought the first Fokker 70 to call at Liverpool on 19th June when G-BVTE called f&t EMA on a crew training flight. Also during the year another Air UK aircraft called, this time G-UKFE.

1996

A new record in 1996 with 5 different aircraft. All were British Midland Fokker 100s G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD and PH-CFF (on lease, however in 1998 became G-BXWF).

1997

Another rise, this time to 7 different aircraft during the year. All were British registered Fokker 100s with British Midland bringing: G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD and Air UK with: G-UKFA, G-UKFB and G-UKFH.

1998

British Midland during the year brought in G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD and Fokker 70 G-BVTG, while Air UK supplied just Fokker 100 G-UKFD.

1999

The record number of different aircraft increased to 9, mainly due to British Midland, who used Fokker 100s: G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD, G-BXWE, G-BXWF and Fokker 70s: G-BVTF, G-BTVG. Final aircraft to mention was operated by Gill Air who brought in Fokker 100 G-BYDP.

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Fokker 70 & 100 visits in the Noughties Decade

2000

All Fokker 70/100 visitors were due to the activities of British Midland: G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD, G-BVTG, G-BXWE and G-BXWF. Notably G-BVTG would be the last Fokker 70 to visit until 2009.

2001

Fewer British Midland aircraft called in 2001, Fokker 100s G-BVJB, G-BVJD, G-BXWE, G-BXWF, along with final visits by Air UK's Fokker 100 in the form of G-UKFB and G-UKFC.

2003

After 10 consecutive years of visits by the type, none appeared in 2002. However 2003 saw the last visits by British Midland's diminishing fleet of the type (G-BVJB & G-BXWF) and the first European operated Fokker jets since 1994, with EC-IPV and F-GNLH of Blue Line, both, if memory serves correctly, were on football related charters.

2004

Fokker 100 EC-IPV and a different Blue Line aircraft F-GNLG appeared,again I think both on football related charters.

2005

Two Blue Line aircraft, with repeat visits by both F-GNLG and F-GNLH. However PH-OFI of KLM Cityhopper was not quite as new as it seemed, having previously visited as PH-ZCN (although did not call while with Air UK as G-UKFI).

2006

Sole Fokker 100 to visit was Blue Line's now familiar F-GNLG.

2007

Again, the sole Fokker 100 to visit was Blue Line's F-GNLG.

2008

For the fifth year in succesion Blue Line's F-GNLG appeared on football related charter. Bringing guests in for the MTV Europe Music Awards were two Germania operated Fokker 100s arriving on Thursday 6th November and night stopping, D-AGPL f&t Berlin/Tegel and D-AGPA f&t Dusseldorf. Both on the ground for around 24 hours.

2009

KLM commenced scheduled operations with Fokker 70 aircraft on Sunday 29th March. PH-KZG operated the first rotation f&t Amsterdam, with PH-KZN and PH-KZP operating further rotations during the day. In the first 5 weeks of operation to the end of April all the active Fokker 70 were seen at Liverpool. PHJCH/JCT/KZA/KZB/KZC/KZD/KZE/KZF/KZG/KZH/KZI/KZK/KZL/KZM/KZN/KZO/KZP/KZR/KZT/KZW/WXA/WXC/WXD (=23). Recent acquisitions PH-KZU first visited during May, PH-KZV first visited in September, while PH-KZS first appeared in KLM service during October. All 26 in the fleet visited during 2009.


PH-KZO Fokker70 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

KLM have also used the very occasional Fokker 50 or 100 in leiu of a Fokker 70. Fokker 100s used PH-OFL & PH-OFP in April, PH-OFE in May and PH-OFB in July, PH-OFO in September, PH-KLIand PH-OFO in October and PH-OFB, PH-OFD, PH-OFE, PH-OFM, PH-OFO in November, with PH-OFL and PH-OFM in December.

Apart from the KLM aircraft, a further Fokker 70 to appear during the year, mid afternoon on Sunday 12th July was Austrian Airlines OE-LFK which arrived from Innsbruck to collect a Liverpool FC outbound charter for Altenrhein and pre-season matches in Southern Germany and Austria. LFC returned to Liverpool via matches in the Far East.

A record year with 27 Fokker 70 and 8 Fokker 100 = 35 different aircraft during the year. Indeed with 26 KLM, 3 BMA and 1 Austrian, no less than 30 of the 47 Fokker 70s constructed have visited Liverpool in five years.

Fokker 70/100 aircraft visits during the Twenty-Tens Decade.

2010

On 23rd April Blue Line's Fokker 100 F-GNLH made a futher football related visit when LFC used it to return from Madrid after the Europa Cup Semi-Final first leg.

By the end of April all of KLMs fleet of 26 Fokker 70s and the remaining 5 Fokker 100s, PH-OFL, OFM, OFN, OFO & OFP had visited on the Amsterdam scheduled service. Of these the only one not to have appeared before was PH-OFN, which first called in February.

On Wednesday 14th July Austrian Airlines Fokker 70 OE-LFJ positioned in from Vienna to take Liverpool FC out for pre-season training camp (as they did, the previous year too). Thats the 31st different Fokker 70 to call at Liverpool out of the 47 built!
LFC returned on 21st July on Fokker 70 OE-LFK. Not quite a record year, with a total of 34 different aircraft in 2010, one down on the previous year.


PH-OFL F100 by Beemer328i, on Flickr

2011

With KLM now serving LJLA 4 times daily with Fokker 70, sometimes substituted by Fokker 100, already many of their fleet have now visited during 2011. Indeed in January 2011 no less than 24 of the 26 Fokker 70, plus all 5 Fokker 100s still in service were used by KLM through Liverpool. The January 2011 missing Fokker 70s being PH-KZP and PH-KZS, however, both visited in February, so 'fleeting' the KLM Fokker 70/100 fleet of 31 aircraft for the year. With no other carrier operating Fokker 70/100 into LJLA during 2011, the year end total stands as 31 different aircraft, 26 Fokker 70, plus 5 Fokker 100.

2012

During January 2012 21 different Fokker 70s and all 5 of the Fokker 100s remaining in service were employed on KLM Amsterdam link. The bad news is that the service was withdrawn at the end of March 2012, after which visits to Liverpool by Fokker 70/100s will once again be few and far between. In the first three months of the year, 25 out of the fleet of 26 Fokker 70s and all 5 remaining Fokker 100s had visited. The missing Fokker 70 being PH-WZH.

On Saturday 4th February poor weather (falling snow?) brought Swiss Fokker 100 HB-JVC to Liverpool on diversion from Birmingham at 1828 inbound from Zurich. The aircraft departed Liverpool for Zurich a little over 2 hours later.

Towards the end of the year, for a Europa League match at Anfield, supporters of Young Boys of Berne, Switzerland arrived on 22nd November on 9A-BTE a Fokker 100 of SunAdria, but using Skywork of Berne call-sign flight numbers. It returned to Berne the following morning.


9A-BTE F100 SunAdria by Beemer328i, on Flickr

Total Fokker 70/100 aircraft for the year 2012 = 32, not quite the record of 35 set in 2009, but still one better than 2011 - however it is very unlikely we will even see double figures in a year again.

2013

No visits by Fokker 70/100 aircraft during 2013.

2014

2014 provided the last visit by Fokker 70s for a fair few years. First though was a return of our friends, KLM, this time though Fokker 70 PH-KZC on Wednesday 2nd April arrived at 1007 from Amsterdam of weather diversion due to WX at Leeds/Bradford. Flight KLM 1545 was on the ground at Liverpool, with passengers aboard for 90 minutes before completing the flight to Leeds. This proved to be the last time a KLM Fokker 70/100 appeared at Liverpool as their fleet of Embraer ERJ aircraft grew rapidly, indeed it was also the final visit by the smaller Fokker 70.

Next came a Fokker 100 operated by Carpatair (KRP) on Saturday 2nd September with YR-FKA from Oporto at 1802 with Porto FC for a series of UK friendly games. The aircraft departed empty for Cuneo, Italy after an hour on the ground. The same Carpatair Fokker 100 YR-FKA was back on Wednesday 1st October at 1510 with the Catalan Dragons to play at St.Helens. The aircraft waited departing after the match at 0013 on Friday 3rd, operated f&t Perpignan. The Dutch Royal Flight Fokker 70 PH-KBX arrived at John Lennon 1219 on Sunday 16th November, departing Monday afternoon at 1303, routing Birmingham-Liverpool-Amsterdam. Although the Dutch Royal Flight's aircraft, the Fokker 70 was being flown by a KLM crew and operated as KLM 9925/9926.


YR-FKA Fokker 100 Carpetair by Beemer328i, on Flickr

2015

Just two different aircraft, but on 4 different charter flights. PH-MJP of Denim Air brought in, then took home Young Boys FC for a European Cup v. EFC. Operated f&t Berne, arriving Wed 25th February 1213, departing on Friday 1501. The aircraft was back on Friday 3rd July, this time operating the return leg of a Lourdes Pilgrimage charter, arriving from Tarbes International 2115, departing for an outbound load to Birmingham at 2205. Second Fokker 100 of the year was D-AOLG of Avanti Air, which on Monday 12th October operated a private charter inbound from Berne at 1645 as 'ISK946', before departing to Paris/CdG two hours later on an Avanti call-sign as 'ATV702G'. Nearly a month later the same aircraft was back, this time arriving with a load of WWE Wrestlers on tour, from Madrid Sunday 8th November arriving at 0209, positioning across to Manchester nearly two days later on 29th at 2113.


D-AOLG F100 Avantiair by Beemer328i, on Flickr


PH-MJP F100 by Beemer328i, on Flickr


PH-MJP F100 Greenland Express by Beemer328i, on Flickr

2016

Just one aircraft, appearing twice during February on the same charter, Denim's PH-MJP again. On Friday 12th athe aircraft arrived from Amsterdam empty at 1508, departing with a private charter to Bournemouth a little over an hour early. The passengers were back from Bournemouth on Saturday evening at 2200. The aircraft returning to Amsterdam on 21st at 1055 on a ferry flight. Times indicate a sports team as the passengers.

2017

In the 'post KLM' years, 2017 ranks as a good one with 6 visits by 4 aircraft, all in the final 4 months of the year and all sports team related. A pre-season friendly between Seville FC and Everton on Sunday 6th August brought in Trade Air Fokker 100 9A-BTD. Seville FC arrived from a game at Bournemouth 2017 on Saturday 5th, the aircraft departing for Cardiff 35 minutes later. It returned from Genoa 0300 on Sunday morning and stopped until taking Seville home at 1936. Next was a different Trade Air aircraft 9A-BTE, which arrived with Olympique Lyonnais FC on Wednesday 18th October for a Europa League game against Everton. The aircraft departed for Tronheim at 1439 empty, returning empty from Krakow the following day at 2315, leaving with Lyonnais at 0041 in the early hours of Friday 20th back to Lyon. Finally on Wednesday 22nd November Atalanta FC arrived for a Europa League match with Everton at 1134 from Bergamo on Avanti Air GmbH Fokker 100 D-AGPH. The aircraft positioned out to Paris/Orly 55 minutes later. Later the same day, at 1711 Avanti Air Fokker 100 D-AOLG arrived from Orly and sat at Liverpool for the whole of Thursday, before departing with Atalanta back to Bergamo at 0108 in the early hours of Friday 24th.

2018

A not dissimilar pattern of Fokker 100 visits in 2018, with 6 visits by 3 different aircraft - and like 2017 all were sports related charters. Catalan Dragons rugby team flew in and out on Carpatair (KRP) Fokker 100 YR-FZA to do battle with Widnes on Saturday 3rd February arriving in early afternoon and leaving directly after the game. Catalan Dragons were back on Thursday 29th February, this time on Carpatair's Fokker 100 YR-FKB arriving late afternoon, with the aircraft night stopping before a late afternoon departure the day after. With Liverpool FC in the Kiev European Cup Final, one of the operators involved was Trade Air (TDR) of Croatia, who positioned in Fokker 100 9A-BTD from Oslo during the evening of Friday 25th May, leaving with fans for Kiev/Borispol early the following morning. The same aircraft returned with fans early morning of Sunday, with the aircraft position back to Oslo 70 minutes later. On Saturday 4th August Trade Air, again using 9A-BTD operated from & to Perpignan with a rugby team to face St.Helens. Arrived late morning and departed the following evening. Finally two days later on Monday 5th August, Carpatair were back with YR-FKB, operating from & to Turin, arriving late afternoon and returned to Turin shortly after midnight on the 8th. The aircraft brought in and took home Turin FC for a friendly with Liverpool FC at Anfield.

2019

Just the single visit by a Fokker 100 during 2019, with Carpatair using YR-FKB on Wednesday 2nd October. Operating from and to Linz with Red Bull Salzburg fans. After arriving in the morning the aircraft stopped at JLA before departing back to Linz at 0300.

So, onto with visits by Fokker 100s into the Twenty-Tens decade:

2020

Just a single visit again in 2020, this time Carpatair were chartered to transport Zilina FC of Slovakia on YR-FZA from Piest'any to meet in a preliminary round European game against All Saints of Oswestry. Zilina FC arrived in the early afternoon of Wednesday 26th August, departing in the early hours of 28th after the match.

2021

In 2021 the sole visit by a Fokker 100 again featured Carpatair and YR-FZA. On Saturday 9th October the Catalan Dragons arrived from Perpignan in the mid-morning to face St.Helens in a Super League Final played at Old Trafford. They returned hone in the early hours of 10th after the match.

2022

Once again Catalan Dragons used Carpatair and YR-FZA to travel from Perpignan for a game against Wigan Warriors. They arrived mid afternoon of Friday 2nd September, running late after poor weather in Southern France, and departed back to Perpignan just minutes after midnight the following morning.

Last updated up to the end of February 2023, by which time the number of Fokker 100s still operating around Europe have become few and far between. It remains to be seen if there ever any further appearances by the type at JLA, or if the Fokker 70/100 is going to join the Caravelle, BAC-111, Trident, VC-10, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8 and other first and second generation jet airliners in the realms of aviation memories.

[viscount]

Aircraft that have appeared at Liverpool 1970-7/2010

Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1970-1994

D-AHLC
F-GBBX, F-GDSK
PH-CHB, PH-CHD, PH-CHF, PH-CHI, PH-FBT, PH-MAT, PH-MOL (=10)

Fokker 70 since 1995-current last visit 2014
G-BVTE, G-BVTF, G-BVTG
OE-LFJ, OE-LFK
PH-JCH/JCT/KBX/KZA/KZB/KZC/KZD/KZE/KZF/KZG/KZH/KZI/KZK/KZL/KZM/KZN/KZO/KZP/KZR/KZS/KZT/KZU/KZV/KZW/WXA/WXC/WXD (=32)

Fokker 100s since 1989

D-AGPA, D-AGPH, D-AGPL, D-AOLG
EC-IPV
F-GNLG, F-GNLH
G-BVJA, G-BVJB, G-BVJC, G-BVJD, G-BXWE, G-BXWF, G-BYDP, G-UKFA, G-UKFB, G-UKFC, G-UKFD, G-UKFE, G-UKFH
PH-CFF, PH-KLG, PH-KLI, PH-MJP, PH-OFB/OFD/OFE/OFI/OFL/OFM/OFN/OFO/OFP,
PH-ZCK, PH-ZCL, PH-ZCM, PH-ZCN
YR-FKA, YR-FKB, YR-FZA
9A-BTD, 9A-BTE (=42)

However PH-CFF later as G-BXWF and PH-ZCM later as G-UKFH with PH-ZCN later as PH-OFI, G-UKFB as PH-OFB, G-UKFD as PH-OFD, G-UKFE as PH-OFE (so =29 airframes). Maybe others too?

If you want more information on the Fokker F-28, Fokker 70 & Fokker 100 types I'm sure that there are informative entries on www.wikipedia.com and enter the type in the search window.

[ronturner]

Thanks for all this information. The Llittle Fokkers were always a favourite of mine, but if I am not mistaken the company is no more. If I am correct, do you happen to know which organisation provides technical support for these aeroplanes, in order for their Airworthiness to be guaranteed?

Rt

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Briliant thread Brian. I remember PH-MAT visiting so must have been at the airport on one of those days.

Ron the spares are manufactured by a company called Stork Aerospace - I know, I've never heard of them either ;D

Heres a link to Fokker's history from its birth in 1912 to its death in 1996.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker

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Ron the spares are manufactured by a company called Stork Aerospace - I know, I've never heard of them either

They have several factories in the southern part of the Netherlands. My understanding is that were basically a management buy-out from the old days of Fokker, and have all the IPR to the Fokker marques. They also produce parts for other aircraft, and by all accounts are quite a profitable little outfit.

And then there's Rekkof, who had hoped to resurrect the Fokker twinjet design and update it, which seems to have come to nothing. Probably there's too much competition from countries such as China Russia and Brazil which can build 70-100 seaters so much more cheaply these days.

[viscount]

There is quite alot on wikipedia, with entries about Fokker Fellowship, Fokker 70, Fokker 100, Rekkof, and Fokkers. The following information is from the wikipedia entries:

Fokker F-28 Fellowship

first flew 9/5/67
first revenue flight (entered service) 28.3.69 (interesting that the first visit to Liverpool was only a year after the type entered service).
production ended 1987
Seating for 65 to 85 depending on the model
241 built.

Fokker 100

first flight 30/11/86
first delivery to a customer 11/87
Production ceased on bankruptcy 3/96. Last aircraft produced 1997
283 built

Fokker 70

First flight 4/4/93
First delivery to a customer airline 10/94
Production ended on bankruptcy 3/96, last aircraft produced 4/97
Total built 47

So 241 + 283 + 47 = 571 built in total over a thirty year period 1967-1997

[johnoakes]

So it outsold the BAC 111 and the HS 146.
Pity we couldn't have got some cooperation going and perhaps one of the companies could have survived--ah the benefit of hindsight.
Could all 3 combined have made a total of 1,000 I wonder.Now that could have made a difference worldwide.

[viscount]

KLM Fokker 100 Retirement and use into Liverpool

The forecast retirement date is that anticipated in April '09.

PH-MJL returned to lessor Nov 08
PH-KLD returned to lessor Feb 09
PH-KLE returned to lessor Jan 09
PH-KLG returned to lessor Jan 09
PH-KLI due to be retired Sept 09, used into LPL, Oct 09
PH-OFA due to be retired Oct 09 and destined for preservation in Holland.
PH-OFB due to be retired Oct 09, used into LPL, July & Nov 09
PH-OFC returned to lessor Mar 09
PH-OFD due to be retired Dec 09, used into LPL, Nov 09
PH-OFE due to be retired Dec 09, used into LPL, May & Nov 09
PH-OFF due to be retired Oct 09, but may have been retired early.
PH-OFG due to be retired Oct 09
PH-OFH due to be retired June 09
PH-OFI returned to lessor Feb 09
PH-OFJ due to be retired July 09
PH-OFK returned to lessor Mar 09
PH-OFL in service, used into Liverpool Apr & Dec 09, Mar & Apr 10
PH-OFM in service, used into Liverpool Nov, Dec 09, Feb, Mar & Apr 10
PH-OFN in service, used into Liverpool Feb & Mar 10
PH-OFO in service, used into Liverpool Sept, Oct, Nov 09, Apr 10
PH-OFP in service, used into Liverpool Apr 09, Jan, Mar & Apr 10

Only the five being retained for now, are under 20 years old. All the Fokker 70 fleet is younger than 20 years.

[viscount]

A thread that has been slow to be illustrated.



No award winning photo, but unless a better b&w one turns-up, Fokker F-28 Fellowship PH-MAT on one of the three visits during the early 1970s.





Here a 2010 visit by Austrian Arrows Fokker 70, OE-LFK, which had brought Liverpool FC back from a summer training camp in Vienna and a match against Altenrhein FC.



A BM Fokker 100 G-BVJD at Liverpool on Sunday morning 12th May 1996 on the Jersey schedule.



F-GNLG of Blue Line visited a number of times over several years, often on football related charters. This digitised print is undated.



Look closely and this is not what it first appears to be. Fokker 100 G-UKFC, formerly of Air UK, but by 2001 operating as KLM UK in full KLM blue colours.





EC-IPV of Spanish operator GirJet visited in both 2003 and 2004, again this are digitised prints.



Carpatair's Fokker 100 YR-FKA on Wednesday 1st October 2014



Avanti's Fokker 100 D-AOLG operating op behalf of InterSky on 12th October 2015, from & to Berne.

[viscount]

While KLM were operating on the Amsterdam route, there was plenty of opportunity to catch images of their attractive aircraft while on finals for 27. A few of my ditals from the period.



Fokker 70 PH-JCT landing on 13th August 2009



.. and the otherside of PH-JCT, not that is any different, although this is on Wednesday 22nd June 2011



Fokker 70 PH-KZK arriving on 28th October 2009



Fokker 70 PH-KZE on 9th December 2009



Fokker 70 PH-KZA performing the Fokker 'party trick' of deploying the rear fuselage speed brakes to assist slowing the final approach speed in cross-wind landings.



Underside of Fokker 100 PH-OFL on Saturday 28th January 2012.



Fokker 100 PH-OFP on the taxi to 27 on a cold 31stt January 2010 with some snow and slush on the ground.

On re-awakening this thread, which was out of date (last revised 2017) and the few illustrations obscured by Photobucket watermarks, it now considerably refreshed with Beemer's recent digital images added into the formerly unbroken text and with my older prints replaced and others found, plus just a few of my numerous KLM images. So this thread, which was quite an early one on the 2009 incarnation of NWAN, thread number 247 in March 2009 has by April 2023 amassed a total of 2,720 'hits' (and NWAN Forum now has over 40,400 threads!).

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One more to complement Viscount's article and Phil Duckett's photos
PH-MAT FOKKER F-28-1000 Martinair Holland LPL 08-04-1972 Grand National Day
IMG00005 - Copy by Frank Nicholls, on Flickr