slide scan from the NK collection. - Lauda operated three FK-27s in the early 80ies. The aircraft shown here was lost as D-AELB ten years later. Conducting a test flight for FTG, it had to carry out an emergency landing in a snow covered field near Bergisch Gladbach; the pilots managed to get out, but the aircraft caught fire and was destroyed.

Basic Aviaco livery

K25 slide scan. Built 1977, retained by Fokker as PH-YEM. Leased to Libyan Arab 1978-1979. Lauda Air OE-ILB 1980, leased to Egyptair 1981-1982 and to Aviaco as EC-DSS 1983-1984. WDL OE-ILB 1984, reregistered D-AELB 1985, leased to DLT 1986, leased to FTG 1989. Written off in forced landing on a training flight near Cologne 24 February 1990. Seen here operating a scheduled DLT passenger flight.

K25 slide scan. Built 1959 as VH-RMA for Ansett, converted to freighter 1972. TPI N356Q 1984, various leases, briefly registered N356WS while being operated by Air Bridge in 1989. Amerer Air OE-ILB 1996, stored 2002. Buffalo Airways C-FBAQ 2006. Dual titles.

Lauda Air started its career with the Fokker F-27.

I believe this aircraft was bringing in someone for a spot of golf at the nearby St Andrew's course.