First flight December 24th 1964 at Schipol, Jan. 18th 1965 deliverd new to EAST-WEST Airlines, named "City of Orange". October 25th 1978 LN-NPI Airexecutive Norway as their 5th F.27. 1981 LN-NPI Busy Bee of Norway. May 18th 1993 SE-KZF Air Nordic. September 1996 stored at Woensdrecht. April 1997 SE-KZF for Swe Aviation Europe (SAE). wfu August 2000. November 2002 9G-AIR Sobel Air Gabon, later Air Max Gabon and later La Nationale. October 2006 wfu and stored at Accra. LN-NPI was shot newly repainted to the 1986 revision of the BS colours, and seen outside the BU Hangar at FBU.

Revised titles

slide scan from the NK collection. - One of five Fokker F-27 of Air Executive Norway, seen here with additional "Busy Bee" titles and just before being repainted into Busy Bee colours. The aircraft flew its last services in Ghana as 9G-AIR and was retired at the age of 42 years in 2006.

Ex-VH-EWG, PH-FGH. Later SE-KZF, 9G-AIR. Broken up Mar/2007

Being heated for a return flight to Sweden on a cold winter's afternoon

Highly regulated air transport in 1965 meant East West had exclusive rights on the intrastate Albury-Sydney route thanks to the NSW government. TAA operated Melbourne-Albury-Canberra-Sydney, which were interstate flights and regulated by the federal government.

Ex-LN-NPI, VH-EWG, PH-FGH. Later 9G-AIR

Sold in Norway as LN-NPI in 1978

Short-lived colour scheme adopted late in 1969 and abandoned by early 1971.