2007 NEWS.

2003-2004-2005-2006 ARCHIVES.

 

11 januari 2007.

Alliance Airlines of Australia expands again. They aquired two F50`s that were operated by Mandarin Airlines of Taiwan.

 

24 januari 2007.

Air Niugini has aquired two additional F100`s bringing the fleet to 5.

The aircraft will be used to phase out the F28.

 

25 januari 2007.

Air France AF7775, operated by Regional F100 F-GMPG has overshot the runway on take off from Pau, France.

As crew and passengers remained unhurt, a driver on the perimeter road died when the aircraft collided with the truck.

 

28 januari 2007.

Dutch Antilles Express has aquired their first F100.

MSN 11331, registered as PJ-DAB, was previously operated by DBA as D-AGPM.

 

30 januari 2007.

Air Bagan of Myanmar has added a second F100 to the fleet.

MSN 11282 was previously operated by USAirways as N854US.

 

12 februari 2007.

Alliance first F50 has arrived down under.

Still in the colours of former operator Mandarin the first F50, 20284, is registered as VH-FKY.

 

18 march 2007.

Feeder Airlines of Sudan will soon take delivery of their first F50 registered as ST-NEW.

Serial is 20138 and previously operated by Skyways as SE-LIN.

 

4 april 2007

FireFly of Malaysia has started operations.

Two ex Malaysian F50`s, 9M-MGI and 9M-MGK are currently in the fleet of the new carrier.

 

9 april 2007

The first F50F`s, converted by AircraftConversions will be operated by Magic Bird.

PH-LMA is currently at Maastricht, Netherlands in full colours awaiting delivery.

 

8 may 2007

Next aircraft in the fleet of VLM will be another ex Denim Air F50.

MSN 20237 PH-JXM will be registered as OO-VLT.

 

19 may 2007

A VLM F50 had a landing incident at Eelde Airport in the Netherlands.

The F50 overshot the runway and ended up in the gras, undamaged and no injuries.

 

15 july 2007

Alliance of Australia has aquired another F50.

Ex Mandarin B-21776, MSN 20312 will join the fleet as VH-FKX.

 

21 august 2007

Magic Bird Cargo failed to start operations.

Both F50F`s with a large cargodoor are stored at Maastricht, Holland.

 

21 august 2007

Air Express has aquired their own F100.

SE-DUU, MSN 11286 was previously operated by US Airways as N856US.

 

13 september 2007

KLM Cityhopper will replace 15 F100`s with Embraer E190`s

Phase out will start in 2008 when the E190 delivery starts.

 

20 september 2007

Skyways is operating a second F50 for Gotlandsflyg.

SE-LEC is the second aircraft in the green tailed livery.

 

22 september 2007

Malaysian goes regional.

 MASwings has started operating the first F50 9M-MGA in a new livery.

 

22 september 2007

F100 returns to Korea. Yeongnam Air is about to take delivery of MSN 11293.

Previously operated as N859US with USAirways, it will start operating as HL7774.

 

4 october 2007

Skywest of Australia has aquired three ex Mandarin F100`s.

MSN 11500, 11496 and 11461 will join the fleet with 11461 as VH-FNT.

 

  18 october 2007

Skywest of Australia has taken another F100.

MSN 11326 previously operated by Inter Airlines of Turkey as TC-IEE, will become VH-FNN.

 

9 november 2007

Kish Air of Iran started operating the F100.

The aircraft EP-ASU is leased from Iran Aseman and was previously operated by TAM Brasil as PT-MQP.

 

6 december 2007

Miniliner of Italy has aquired 4 F50F aircraft.

MSN 20118 and 20119 are ready for service.

A success for AircraftConversions and finally the F50F in service.

 

14 december 2007

Investigation  has been carried out by the Aviodrome museum of Holland to bring MSN 11003 back home!

Better known as PH-MOL she is currently stored in Mali as TZ-ASH.

 

17 december 2007

Canadian North will phase out their two F100`s.

MSN 11301, C-GPNL, is on her way to Air Niugini and 11265 will leave the fleet in february 2008.