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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Last Friendship visitor at Ardmore?

Arriving in Auckland 27 July 2004 on completion of its ferry flight from Bali was GT Air’s sole Fokker F27-500 PK-LTP (10398). The ferry route had taken the Friendship via Darwin, Brisbane and Norfolk Island. Auckland was not quite its final destination as the F27 flew onwards to Ardmore 28 July 2004 where it underwent a cabin refurbishment with Airwork before returning to Indonesia. This machine has been sitting idle in Bali since April 2004 after having an engine failure.

The F27 positioned from Ardmore to Auckland on 12 September 2004 for further work at Airwork's Mangere facility. It finally departed our shores on 05 November 2004 embarking from Auckland to Norfolk Island, Brisbane and Longreach.

A web search would indicate the aircraft is still going strong in 2010 and wears a modified livery:
http://www.fokker-aircraft.info/gtair-pkltp.jpg


Conducting engine runs on the disused runway at Ardmore 30 July 2004, Mike Condon photo
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