Arnold Bejeman sent us current photos of “Tizzy”, the Fokker F-28 Mk.1000 C-GTIZ (cn 11099) that is preserved in Canada. Beautiful images taken by Alex Praglowski on 10Oct2024. As you can see the plane is complete with the tail installed. Long live Tizzy!!!!
You can see the complete history of this aircraft at: About C-GTIZ
FF. 03Aug1967. PH-WEV. F-28-1000. Black & orange cs. Wfu Amsterdam May1972. Broken up in 1975. Cockpit preserved, seen at Boeing Avenue 351, Shiphol-Rijk 24Oct2016 by Johan Hetebrij.
FF. 16Jan1969. F-28 Mk.1000. PH-ZAD NV KNV Fokker 15Jan1969. LN-SUC Braathens SAFE 03Mar1969. Named “Olav Kyre”. I-TIAP Unifly Express 01Oct1986. Seen 11Apr1987 in Braathens – SAFE basic colors & Unifly ttls. Alinord May1988. Own Locafit May1988, ret Dec1990, wfu 1990 (auctioned 26Sep1991). Seen at Rome-Ciamp Nov1994, fs Jul1995. N37RT Rotor Trade Nov1995. OB-1636 Aero Continente Dec1995. Seen at Glasgow 23Feb1996, delivery flight in full Alinord colors. Seen 21Mar2000 with “100% Peruano” stickers on nose. Dismantled Lima by Aug2003, loaded on a ship in Callao Peru 27Aug2003. Shipment to Bodö, Norway museum. Transferred in Rotterdam, arr Bodö 07oct2003 to be painted in Braathens colors and put on display. Seen 2012 good condition, inside museum building. Preserved.
FF. 19Aug1969. F-28 Mk.1000. PH-ZAL Fokker 18Aug1969. N281FH Fairchild Hiller Corp 13Sep1969. Seen in Fairchild colors, blue and red cheatlines. N27W Temple Eastex Inc 05Apr1973, rr N930TL May1984. VR-BNC Seabaco T&SC 18Nov1991. rr. 06Jun1992. Seen at WOE Jun1992, 15Oct1993 ret. Parked at Zurich 11Jan1994. Parked at WOE 21Sep1994. Peregrine Air Charter, delivered 25Nov1994. C-FHFP Peregrine rgd 03Mar1995. Husby Forest Products r10Mar1998. N43AE Novell Corp 28Jun1998. General Aviation Svcs LLCGeneral Aviation Svcs LLC 03Jul2001. N500WN Desert Eagle LLC. r14Nov2001. Seen at Washington IAD 19Dec2001. Wayne Newton (US Entertainer) 28Mar2003, for sale repo 13Sep2005. Stored at Pontiac MI 27Apr2007, s12Mar2008. Sold to CSD LLC r18Aug2010, trucked to Las Vegas. Parked at southwest corner of Pecos and Sunset roads, at Wayne Newton home. Missing parts seen late Aug2010, but refurbised and open as visitors exhibit. Seen on Oct2018 as exhibit at Casa de Shenandoah Wayne Newton's home tour.Seen 05May2019 at the same location. Preserved.
FF. 29Apr1970. F-28 Mk.1018. PH-ZAS 29Apr1970 Fokker-VFW. VH-FKA MacRobertson Miller Airlines (MMA) 04Jun1970, named “RMA Pilbara II”. Airlines of Western Australia nn 01Jul1981. Incident on 26Sep1983, the passenger door (L1) opened shortly after the takeoff, the airplane flew 2 hours for burn fuel and returned to Perth. Ansett WA nn 01Oct1984. Air New South Wales li 10Aug1985. Ansett Express nn 28Nov1990. Ansett WA ret Jun1992. Ansett Australia mgd Sep1993. Wfu 09Dec1994 Brisbane. Reported in service Apr-May1995. Stored al Melbourne. LADECO due 1995 ntu. Reg canc 28Aug1995. First F-28 anywhere in the world to exceed 30,000 hours. Final flight AN460 Perth - Alice Springs 26May1995 after having flown 62,751 hours with 63,222 cycles. Scrapped at Melbourne Airport 20Jan1996. Parts by 20Jun1996. Cockpit section repo to exist in a garden front yard in Melbourne (Nov2006).
