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The great success that Fokker achieved with its F27 model encouraged the Dutch manufacturer to go one step further. In this way, in Apr1962 the new project was announced: The F28 Fellowship.
On the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the prototype´s first flight, -May 9, 1967-, we glad to invite you to the launch of this new Blog fokkerfellowship28.blogspot.com, dedicated absolutely to the Fellowship.
We invite all those who are passionate about this small Dutch colossus to share their experiences, photographs, or information in this space. The site is under development, and we hope all readers will like it.
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Gonzalo Carballo, Esteban Lerín & Carlos Abella

Never delivered #30

 

On October 30, 1975, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and her husband, Prince Consort Henrik, visited the Fokker factory facilities during a state visit to the Netherlands. They were accompanied by Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands).

They toured the F-28 Fellowship production line, where they were able to observe several aircraft under construction, including a Fokker F-28 Mk.1000C for Air Gabon, cn.11102 (TR-LTS) and the rear section of the “A105”, future F-28 Mk.1000 cn.11105 for Garuda Indonesia Airways (PK-GVV).

At the time, this state visit did not spark any interest from Danish airlines. By 1975, Maersk Air was operating Fokker F-27s—what would have happened if they had decided to replace them with the Fokker F-28 Fellowship?

Four years later, in 1979, Cimber Air purchased two F-28 Mk.3000s.

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