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ATR42 -500 544 SX-SIX Sky Express, ex F-GPYO of HOP! Delivered on 12 April.
ATR72 -202 350 C-GFSA Summit Air Charters, ex CS-DVF of Lease Fly. Delivered on 18 April.
-212A 1131 ES-ATF Nordica, ex OY-JZD of Jet Time. Delivered on 23 March. Operated for SAS.
-212A 1490 EC-MXQ Binter Canarias. Delivered on 26 April.
BN-2 B-21 553 OY-CKS Copenhagen AirTaxi, ex COWI Aerial Services. Per 13 April.
DHC-8 -202B 450 TF-FXH Air Iceland Connect, ex N842HA of Wells Fargo Bank. Delivered on 4 April.
-402 4105 C-FXIP World Wide Aircraft Ferrying Ltd, ex G-JECI of Flybe. Registered on 5 April.
-402 4119 D-ABQM Eurowings, ex Air Berlin. Per 10 March with Eurowings, operated by LGW.
-402 4245 D-ABQF Eurowings, ex Air Berlin. Per 12 April with Eurowings, operated by LGW.
Do328 -110 3061 D-CAAN Arcus Air, ex HB-AEO of SkyWork Airlines. Per April.
Saab 2000 036 HB-IZT SkyWork Airlines, ex G-CDEB of Eastern Airways. Per 11 April.
Credits: Airfleets, Airline-List, Planespotters and Skyliner.
Propliners
Convair 580 60 N4805C Ex Northwest. Sold to Air Venezuela in the late 90s, but remained in the USA. Was finally broken up at
El Paso (TX) in April 2018. Parts will be used by Florida Air Transport and Conquest Air at Opa Locka
(FL) for their fleets.
Douglas C-47 6085 N8061A Ex Jim Hankins and Preferred Air Parts. Was ferried late January 2018 from Kidron (OH) to Spanish
Fork (UT). After arrival the engines were removed, and fake or unserviceable engines were fitted. After
that the wings, outboard of both engines, were removed and it was then pulled through town to its new
location on the edge of town. By mid-February the airplane was noted with its wings fitted again, still
with the Jim Hankins titles and blue cheat line. It will be preserved in a playground for children.
C-47A 13642 FAH-306 Fuerza Aérea Hondureña, part of the museum at Tegucigalpa-Toncontin. Has been restored and
repainted in the white scheme it used in the sixties and seventies. Noted as such in March 2018.
C-47B 32820 VP905 Indian Air Force Vintage Flight, ex G-AMSV. After a long restoration by Reflight Airworks in the UK the
Dakota, named Parashurama, started its delivery flight on 17 April 2018. Final destination and new
home will be at Hindon AFB in New Delhi, where it arrived on 26 April. This is not just another ‘fake
serial’, but a real serial. G-AMSV was cancelled from the UK register on 27 February this year. If you
want to know more details about her delivery flight, visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/
Scramblemagazine. This is the second time that an Indian Air Force Dakota has worn serial VP905, the
first time it graced on C-47A 12851 , in 1947.
C-54E 27352 VH-EAY HARS Australia. They repainted this DC-4 in former Airlines of NSW colours. Noted as such 28 March
2018, at Albion Park, Sydney (NSW).
DHC 2 284 C-FHVT Ex Sudbury Aviation, made a crash landing at Kennedy Lake thirty miles west of Sudbury (Ont.) in June
2014, the registration was cancelled later that year. The fuselage suddenly appeared on the back of a
trailer at Anchorage Lake Hood Airport (AK) on 19 April 2018. We hope for a rebuild!
2 1143 N755JM Now based in Plzen, Czechia, still with Marines markings, no further details. It was once based at
Lelystad.
2T 1661TB35 N69359 Ward Air of Juneau (AK), noted without titles and a large sticker registration at Tyee Split (BC) in April
- Ex C-GDCN and transferred on 23 March 2018.
Grumman US-2N 712 151 Aviodrome. The Grumman Tracker of the Aviodrome in full KLM colours is in the process of being
repainted in its original Dutch Navy livery. The Grumman was once painted in KLM colours as it was part
of the KLM ground school for technicians, but the Aviodrome values the true history of the airplane. The
airplane is on static display in the museum, but on special days the engines can be started and they can
show how the wings fold. Presentation of the new looks are expected on 28 April 2018.
Lockheed L-1649A 1038 N8083H TWA hotel at JFK. This is one of the three Starliners that was bought by Lufthansa for the restoration
project back in 2007. The airframe has been sold in March 2018 to the new TWA hotel that is being built
at the airlines’ former terminal at JFK Airport, Terminal 5. The Starliner will be used inside the hotel as
a forty seater cocktail lounge. More importantly the hotel will feature a viewing deck at the airport open
to the public. The Starliner will be completed again at Auburn, where it has been parked since 1986,
and painted in full TWA colours. Then it will undergo a 350 mile road trip to JFK, including a planned
ride through the streets of Manhattan! This Starliner was originally delivered to TWA, but only flew pas-
sengers for 2.5 years, and one year as freighter for TWA.
Noorduyn Norseman Mk.VI 365 CF-GLI Stichting “De Vliegtuigcompanie” is restoring this Noorduyn Norseman. It was moved to the Netherlands
in 2014 after a landing mishap in June 2010. First it was located in an industrial estate called Hem-
brugterrein in Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam. It is now part of the collection at the new ‘Nederlands
Transport Museum’ in Nieuw-Vennep, the Netherlands, where restoration work will continue.
PBY 5A 300 PH-PBY Catalina Nederland. After the landing mishap in Lelystad in September 2017 the Catalina is completely
repaired again. Not all paperwork is completed yet however, so the flying season has not started yet for
the Cat.
Credits: Aad van der Voet, Ruud Leeuw, Michael Prophet, Neil Aird (DHC2), Ralph Petterson (Conniesurvivors), propliner com-
munities, and online photo websites.
Fokker News
F27 -050 20105 OO-VLJ VLM Airlines. Seen at Antwerp on 27 March, without engines. VLM will now face the task of deciding its
future; use it for spares or use it...
-050 20126 SE-MFD Amapola Flyg, ex Largus Aviation. Ferried 18 April from Malmö to Lelystad for repaint into Amapola Flyg
colours.
-050 20127 OO-VLO VLM Airlines. Has been stored at Antwerp since June 2016 and will never grace the skies again.
-050 20244 5Y-IZO Silverstone Air Services, ex TF-JMS Flugfélag Íslands. Ferried from Woensdrecht on 19 April to
Khartoum, for its new operator.
-050 20240 RP-C8250 Leading Edge Air Services, ex PK-TNC of TransNusa Air Services. The saga continues and hopefully
this time it will be a definite tie-up!