Fokker F28 Fellowship

The Fokker F-28 Fellowship is a short-range transport aircraft of the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.

History

In 1962, the F- 28 was billed as a co-production of European aircraft manufacturer Fokker, Messerschmitt AG, VFW - Fokker and Short. Fokker was responsible for the construction of the cockpit and the center fuselage section including inner wing, MBB / VFW made ​​the front and rear fuselage and the tail, the outer wing was prepared at Short. The final assembly took place at the airport Schiphol in Amsterdam.

The aircraft was a low-wing monoplane with two at the rear mounted Rolls- Royce Spey engines, similar to competitors BAC 1-11 and the Douglas DC - ninth There were 65 passengers.

The first prototype flew on 9 May 1967 and the approval was granted in 1969. Launch customers were LTU and Braathens, 1969 placed the aircraft into service. When production ceased in 1987, 241 aircraft had been built. Successor was the Fokker 100 As of January 2013, a total of 241 yet 31 built F-28 in active service.

Versions

The first version was created in 1971 -1000 supplemented by extended by 2.5 meters -2000 for 79 passengers. The -5000 and -6000 were stronger Spey engines and slats, there were ten copies of this version produced. In 1976 the -3000 and -4000 versions with extended wings on the market.

Incidents

The rate of loss of the aircraft is 4.65, total losses per 1 million flights. Thus, the F -28, according to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, the third-highest loss rate of any aircraft still in use in 2010.

Specifications

Military user

Civilian buyers

The following airlines bought the Fokker F-28 (new and used aircraft ):

  • Aerolíneas Argentinas
  • Aero Peru
  • Air Anglia
  • Air Gabon
  • Air Ivoire
  • Air Nauru
  • Air Niugini
  • Air Ontario
  • Air Tanzania
  • Aviaction
  • Ansett Airlines of Australia
  • Biman Bangladesh Airlines
  • Braathens
  • Burma Airways
  • Canadian Regional Airlines
  • Cimber Air
  • Delta Air Transport
  • East - West Airlines
  • Garuda Indonesia
  • Germanair
  • Ghana Airways
  • Iberia Airlines
  • Itavia
  • KLM
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