Delivered 29th Oct 1991 and then to JetsGo as C-GKZF 15th June 2004

Delivered 10th Jan 1995 and returned to the Dutch register as PH-HSP 31st Aug 2004

Ex PH-CFB and registered 27th Aug 1993

Former USAir Fokker 100, N893US.

This was a welcome visitor to Brisbane and I managed to get this shot before a torrential downpour.

One of the rewards of having full airport access is being there when a new aircraft is towed from the hangar while still in the stages of being made ready for service with Alliance Airlines. This airframe started life as N889US with US Air as N889US and finished life as P2-ANA with Air Niugini after a mercury spill rendered it totally unserviceable. Sadly the next step was the airport fire dump at Brisbane.

Still in her original US Airways livery on arrival to Brisbane the aircraft later became VH-FKD with Alliance.

Registered to APS Trading Services in Aug 2014 as YR-CRY, it was delivered to Ghadames Airlines (طيران غدامس) 10 Oct 2014, still in the colours of previous operator FlyCAA (Compagnie Africaine D'Aviation ex 9Q-CHO. Reports indicate that the aircraft flew to Malta and remained there until 24 Sep 2015 when it was ferried to Maastricht to be readied for a new Spanish airline, Skycity Airlines, which in fact never got off the ground. In May 2017 it was registered to SAMCO as PH-ABW and intended for a new Dutch airline, Air Hollandia. That airline was declared bankrupt in 2018 having also never got off the ground!

From April 2015 to February 2016, Denim Air established FlyDenim as a new brand and corporate design for their charter operations.