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1979
1979 - 3946.PDF
1396 FLIGHT International, 27 October /979 Commercial Aircraft of the World Carudo is Fokker's biggest single F.28 customer, and nas now taken delivery of the not-cnd-high Mk 3000 version Australia Airlines 4, Burma Airways Corporation 5, Corporate and government 5. Total 115 lw* F.27 Mk 300 orders: Icelandair 1, KLM 2, LTU 1, Netherlands Government (Troopships) 9. Total 13 ^einenand F.27 Mk 400/600 orders: AeroPeru 2, Aero Trasporti Italiani 5 Air Zaire 8, Air.Tanzania 3, Air France 2, Air Niger 1 Aka 1, Algeria 3, Ansett Airlines of Papua (New Guinea) 2 Aramco 2 Bangladesh Biman 4, Burma Airways 6, Condor Flugdienst 2, Danish Aero Lease 2, Deta 1, Garuda Indonesian LYhT^A^K^T-^f011 *' Iberia 8, Indian XlrSt M S , oaxr-6' .Llna. Congo l> Luxair 1. Maersk Air (AP Moeller) 2, Nigena Airways 2, Pakistan International Airlines 3, Royal Air Maroc 2, Sobelair 1, Schreiner Airways 1, Somali Airlines 2 Swift Aire Lines 3, Swissair 2, Taag 1 Tmns- ^US32M ' undisclosed 2' corporate and government F.27 Mk 500 orders: Air Inter 10, Air Rouergue 1, ALM Dutch F?S wL^9 ^ 2' AAnse« Transport Industries 6, Aramco 5, KFTSZZ~L'A^I^±m?s 3' Malaysia-Singapore Airline^ KitfnL^S'f™ Zeol3Sd NAC <Air New Zealand) 4, ?i^> V ^g, Mrwa*s 2> French Government (Ministere des Postes et Telecommunications) 15. Undisclosed 2. Total 70 F.27 Maritime orders: Peru Navy 2> SAR 3 F;M Orders for Fokker's small twinjet are continuing steaddy but. slowly. Production is running at 15 Saft a year and may be increased to 24 if demand remains healtL Production versions are the Mk 4000 and the smaller: capacity "hot-rod" Mk 3000, with the extended wing originally developed for the slatted Mk 6000 but with fixed leading edges. Cimber Air has been added to the list of commercial cus tomers ,n the past year, but the US market remains unbroken despite sales efforts in 1978. In Europe, studies of S as a Caravelle replacement are continuing, while British AlTyS™andMlm,ent of some domestic routes may mean further F.28 sales. Certification of the F.28 for Air AngUa was achieved m June this year, and Air UK, newly formed by The merger of Air Anglia with British Island Airways, is likelv to order F.28s if its services are extended V QJ^ Dfmestic Airways' decision to delay its choice of a Stol replacement for the YS-11 until its widebody replace! F^kWPwwamme V3.™1**6 seems to have terminated Fokker-VFW interest in the stretched F.28 Mk 6600 proposed last year. Fokker's interest in Japan now centres on the F.29. F.28 orders: Aerolineas Argentinas 3, AeroPeru 3, Air Gabon Wh wT 2' t?"? T™™*0™ Industries (Airlines of New South Wales, MacRobeitson Miller Airline Services) 5 Ayiaction 3, Bavaria Germanair 4, Braathens SAFE 5 Burma Airways 1, Garuda 31, Iberia 3, Itavia 3, Linjeflyg 13,' LTU 4 SS?^.1, S'ffi3. ASTm'8 10' Pelita p«rtamina ^Govern! ment of the Netherlands 1, Government of Nigeria 1 THY 5 Transair 2, Eastex 1 Ghana Airways 2, Government of Malay! sia 2, People's Republic of Congo 1, Australian Government th^7Zn^MfJh% ^^ °f Gabm !' Government of the Republic of the Ivory Coast 5, Government of Peru I Government of Togo 1, NLM CityHopper (KLM) 4, Air Anglia O,™ i rZ1 ' Governinent of Tanzania 1, Government of SK \ ^^T^o °* A1-^11*^ 10, Government of Colombia 1, Cumber Air 2. Total 146 fhfrn^61"'8/^681183^118 of a Programme to sustain, the company following the end of F-16 production in the t^TvXl^ t %?« ^^ --dLblTla"^ tne t 2B-2/F£8-5/Super F.28 project under study last vear The all-new F.28 could now emerge with as many asTeO slate in a new six-abreast fuselage section. Fokker's design work on a new supercritical wing for the F.28 derivative would be applied directly to the new rear-engined aircraft as could its work on composite materials <»rcrart, as Rovc^R1^^-2,8 an^itS first-Choice Powerplant, the Rolls- Koyce RB.432, could be launched as part of a massive Euro-Japanese programme. Fokker approached both Boeing and Lockheed as possible partners on the airframe earlS ms y ^r' b« although the US option is open it is not nkelv that fnthatmSarPrUfafUr^ WiU. be intereSted - colSation in that market sector. Discussions with the Japanese Ministrv of International Trade and Industry (W) appear to W been given priority, and a large share in the programme fe
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