Test reg PH-FAY before delivery to the Australian Department of Aviation as F27-100 VH-CAV in 1959. To Air Anglia as G-STAN and converted to an F27-200 in 1979. Air Anglia merged into Air UK in 1980. Scrapped at Norwich in 1996.

Test reg PH-FDL before delivery to All Nippon Airways as JA8606 in 1962. To Pelita Air Service as PK-PFS in 1971 then to TAT-Touraine Air Transport as F-GBDK in 1979 and to Air UK as G-BHMY in 1980. To the City of Norwich Aviation Museum in 2000.

In the third colour scheme I photographed in. Test reg PH-FEP before delivery to Malayan Airways as 9M-AMI in 1963. To Malaysia-Singapore Airlines as 9V-BAP in 1967. Returned to Fokker as PH-FEP in 1971 then to Air Anglia as G-BAUR in 1973 who merged into Air UK in 1980. Leased to British Midland Airways in 1982 and in 1984. Withdrawn from use at Exeter in 1995. Used for parts by Jersey European Airways. Fuselage only by 2001. Scrapped in 2009.

Became F-OGIM, F-BUIK. WFU December 1991 Le Bourget. Broken up June 2000.

First flown as PH-FBT on 26 Aug'60, delivered to 334sq of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 30 Sep'60. The small transporter operated from homebase Soesterberg up to 31 Jul'96, when it was withdrawn from service and stored at Woensdrecht air base (the Netherlands). The F27 was sold on 18 Dec'97 to Valitrade. It became ZS-OEI with Luft Afrique in Feb'98 and became 5Y-BRN with Air Express in Nov'03. Later it flew with that registration with Safe Air from 2009. Safe Air was not so safe as the F27 crashed in poor visibility weather at Bossaso (Somalia) on 4 Mar'10.

Sold in the UK in 1972 as G-BAKL.

Factory shot of the first F-27M for the Indonesian Air Force. Later to PH-FRL then T-2701/A-2701. (Tony Lloyd photo)

In the 70s the Netherlands air force leased a couple of their Troopships to NLM to be used for domestic flights. Photographer unknown

Test reg PH-EXI before delivery to Midstate Airlines as N240MA in 1984. To Jersey European Airways as G-JEAB in 1988 then to UP Air as VT-UPC in 1995. Withdrawn from use at Delhi in 1999. Still there in 2019. Later scrapped.

Date range is an estimate. Photographer unknown

Registered in June 1968 and sold to MSA Malaysia-Singapore Airlines as 9V-BCN in August 1970. Photographer unknown

They tried to tape over the Business Express logos, but did not really succeed.