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170SU 17000040 VQ-BYM S7 Airlines, ex N819MD of Republic Airlines.
170SU 17000041 VQ-BYN S7 Airlines, ex N820MD of Republic Airlines. Delivered on 30 January.
175STD 17000708 PH-EXU KLM Cityhopper. Delivered on 23 February.
175STD 17000710 PH-EXW KLM Cityhopper. Delivered on 14 March.
175STD 17000711 PH-EXX KLM Cityhopper. Delivered on 16 March.
195LR 19000308 I-ADJV Air Dolomiti, ex D-AEME of Lufthansa CityLine. Transferred in March.
190STD 19000750 PH-EXV KLM Cityhopper. Delivered on 23 February.
190STD 19000751 PH-EXY KLM Cityhopper. Delivered on 23 March.
MD-11 F 48777 N618TF IAGCAS LLC, HZ-AND of Saudia. Registered on 23 March. Stored at Jeddah.
Credits: Airfleets, Airline-List, Flightglobal, Planespotters and Skyliner.
Commuters
ATR42 -500 524 SX-FOR Sky Express, F-GVZB of HOP!. Delivered on 15 February.
ATR72 -212A 982 EC-MHJ Air Europa Express, ex Binter Canarias. Delivered on 27 March.
-212A 1482 G-IACZ Eastern Airways. Delivered on 2 March.
-212A 1483 EC-MVI Binter Canarias. Delivered on 2 March.
DHC-8 -402 4184 D-ABQL Eurowings, ex Air Berlin. Per 23 February with Eurowings, operated by LGW.
-402 4264 D-ABQI Eurowings, ex Air Berlin. Per 3 March with Eurowings, operated by LGW.
Credits: Airfleets, Airline-List, Planespotters and Skyliner.
Propliners
Douglas C-47 11906 CF-TES Polish Air Force. We received a rumour a few months ago that an abandoned fuselage at Winnipeg
Airport (Man.) was about to be restored as a gate guard somewhere. We now have more details. The
frame will be flown to Poland onboard a C-17, where it will be restored to resemble the private C-47 of
General Sosnkowski, who led the Polish forces during WWII. All will be part of the celebrations of the
100year anniversary of the Polish Air Force.
C-47 12192 XA-UDY Fallen American “MIA” Repatriation Foundation (FAMIARF) has taken up a second DC-3 for restoration.
This was the last airworthy Dakota in Mexico. The work will take place in the Los Angeles area.
C-47A 12693 N88874 “That’s All Brother”. Work by Basler Turbo Conversions has been completed and the airplane was ferried
via Tulsa (TX) to San Marcos (TX) early March 2018. The work will be completed by the Central Texas
Wing of the Commemorative Air Force.
HP HPR7-209 195 G-CEXP Former statue on the visitors’ promenade of London-Gatwick Airport is being saved. The last couple of
years the Herald was parked with the airport fire brigade, but a group of enthusiasts is crowdfunding to
restore X-ray-Papa. The airplane will be moved to St. Athans South Wales, for preservation if all goes
well.
Lockheed L1649 1018 N7316C Lufthansa Super Star. Completely unexpectedly Lufthansa announced they pulled out of this project on
15 March 2018. It is not yet clear what will happen to the project. The airplane is expected to be trans-
ported to Germany by boat.
Credits: Aad van der Voet, Ruud Leeuw, Michael Prophet, Ralph Petterson (Conniesurvivors), propliner communities, and online
photo websites.
Rekkof, the name of Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker spelt backwards, has a presence at Lelystad Airport. Since Fokker went bankrupt they
had storage space at the airport and recently they have started to empty them, like some sort of spring cleaning. Among others they found
some Fokker parts; this cockpit section of a Fokker 100 (destined at one time for USAir), a dark blue Fokker 100 tail section plus the aft part of a
Fokker 100 fuselage, where the engines can ben attached. Richard Poeser was present during the clean-up and took this picture of the hangar
on 19 February 2018.