
VH-TFC Fokker F.27
Friendship ' James
Grant'
c/n 10113
Third Friendship delivered. First TAA
flight on 9 July 1959. TAA, having delivered a list of
aircraft
names to
Fokkers, changed them all around before the aircraft were put into
service. -TFC was to
have
been 'Arthur Phillip'. This Friendship flew faithfully with TAA
until sold to the broker
Australian
Aircraft
Sales in 1977. Greg Banfield shot the above image at Mascot in
1962 whilst the aircraft was
wearing a
slightly modified first livery. It became F-BYAP with Uni-Air in
1977 although was leased
to a couple of
Belgian charter outfits as OO-SVL before being withdrawn from service
and scrapped
in 1992.