CYEGsTankers From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2004, 245 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3022 times:
Strange as it may be, but is this really the last remaining Fokker in service for all of North America?
C-FTAY operated by Canadian North F28.
Using the search options for airliners.net and other references, so far I think I'm correct.
Or am I mistaken?
CanadianNorth From Canada, joined Aug 2002, 3371 posts, RR: 10 Reply 1, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3003 times:
Im not sure if it is the last in North America, but I believe it is the last F28 operating in Canada (if you don't count F100s of Jetsgo, which are technecly F28-0100s but are really a whole different airplane from the F28-1000/-2000/-3000/-4000 series, as F28s). Still seems to be going pretty damn good for a 30 year old (as far as I can tell, it was manufactured by Fokker in 1974), Doesn't look more than a couple years old if that....
320tech From Turks and Caicos Islands, joined May 2004, 487 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2971 times:
Reasonably sure I saw an airline F28 in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, but can't remember the operator.
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the manufacturer and impossible for the AME.
Flybynight From Norway, joined Jul 2003, 992 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2943 times:
A little over a year ago Horizon got rid of their F28's.
About two years ago I flew one from Boise to Seattle.
I was starting to wonder if that puppy was ever going to get off of the ground. We used pretty much every inch of the runway. The guy sitting next to realized this as well, and we exchanged a look. No one else was realized a thing!
Sr71 From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 29 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2909 times:
I remember TAY and TAV were operated by Transair Ltd. in Winnipeg in the early 70's. It would be unique if the first F-28 to operate in Canada ended up being the last F-28 to operate as well.
Avt007 From Canada, joined Jul 2000, 2131 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2749 times:
Is N500WN the one that used to belong to Husby Forest Products out of YVR? I worked a bit on that one, it had a semi-executive interior, pretty nice, but still capable of carrying maybe 30 people. It also had newer avionics and EFIS (although the quality of the install job was not very good). IIRC, that a/c was always an executive a/c from new, beginning with the Time/Life company.
Learpilot From United States of America, joined May 2001, 814 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2597 times:
I don't know what happened since.
It now belongs to the one, the only, the voice of Vegas... Mr. Wayne Newton.
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Avt007 From Canada, joined Jul 2000, 2131 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2588 times:
Learpilot- really? seriously? It seems funny, I don't know why. They are a midsize executive aircraft, especially a 1000, and are cheap to buy, the big problem is fuel burn, and noise. They are or were exempt from noise regs in Canada due to their weight, but I don't know the rules in the states on this. I'd rather see them used than slowly corroding away.........
7E72004 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3586 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2586 times:
I just found a picture i took of a piedmont F-28 at PHL in June of 1989...i wish i had a scanner
The next generation of aircraft is just around the corner!
Atcrick From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 770 posts, RR: 14 Reply 13, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 2530 times:
AVT007,
Learpilot is correct. N500WN is parked at the executive terminal and does in fact belong to Mr. Wayne Newton. It doesnt seem to fly much, compared to the MGM aircraft, ( GIII, GIV, and MD87) parked next to it.
UPS707 From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 355 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 2501 times:
@avt007 Well.... Looks like you are right.... I was searching the database for pictures of the Novell plane, then noticed in late 2002 it became the same color scheme as N500WN. Well... tracking it down N43AE has been re-regged as N500WN, so I guess you do know that plane well
Visityyj From Canada, joined Jun 2000, 519 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2463 times:
I remember TAY and TAV were operated by Transair Ltd. in Winnipeg in the early 70's. It would be unique if the first F-28 to operate in Canada ended up being the last F-28 to operate as well.
Not to be, alas. The current C-FTAY (msn 11084) is not the original Transair F28 (msn 11038) which was sold to Papua-Nuigini then on to Australia and finally scrapped.
Avt007 From Canada, joined Jul 2000, 2131 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (8 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 2315 times:
The demise of the CRA F28 fleet is due in large part to the decision to go with a "power by the hour" contract with Rolls-Royce. When AC parked the fleet, RR took all their engines back, leaving Jazz with a collection of aircraft that weren't in demand even if they had engines. I can't speak for YXE, but in YVR there are no storage inspections done, indeed the aircraft were never properly stored, but rather just parked one day and left.
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