VH-TFG  Fokker F.27 Friendship     'Dirk Hartog'                                   c/n  10122

                                       This was the aircraft name which TAA had requested Fokkers paint on VH-TFA.  Just why they
                                       were all switched around upon delivery I don't know.   To give the sign painter some work?   -TFG
                                       flew with the airline for twenty years (1959-1979) before being sold off through Australian Aircraft
                                       Sales to Evergreen International as N300AS.   A few months later (September of 1979) it went to
                                       Pilgrim Airlines as N142PM.   Jon Proctor caught it (below) at La Guardia in June of 1984 in full
                                       (latter day) Pilgrim livery.   Business Express, who took over Pilgrim Airlines sold it to to Air Dabia
                                       (of The Gambia) in 1996 but the deal did not go through and the machine was scrapped at Hernando
                                       County Airport, Brooksville, Florida.    I shall refrain from a further comment about TPLACs.
                                       I assume Business Express took it as a tax write off.