Never delivered #34

 

The extensive demonstration tour carried out by the Fokker F-28 Mk.4000 in February and March 1978 also included Bolivia and Uruguay.

In Bolivia, the PH-JPV (c/n 11130) operated in the city of La Paz, where it demonstrated its capability to operate from the high altitude of El Alto Airport. It performed demonstration flights for Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano and Transporte Aéreo Militar, an air transport group of the Bolivian Air Force.

Once the demonstrations in Bolivia and Brazil were completed, the Fokker F-28 Mk.4000 landed in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, where the aircraft was showcased to PLUNA.

 We have chosen to illustrate the F-28 in the livery that PLUNA applied to the Boeing 737-200s it purchased to replace the three Boeing 727-030s it had been operating since 1978.

Never delivered #33

 

Several Fokker F-28s conducted demonstration and sales tours around the world. One of them, registration PH-FPT (c/n 11994), flew to Libya where it performed a series of demonstration flights that included landings on gravel runways. The aircraft carried stickers from the Libyan company Linair.

How would the PH-FPT have looked if it had been leased to Linair for a considerable period of time?.

Never delivered #32

 

The 1978 American promotional tour of the Fokker F-28 Mk.4000 also included Colombia, which was the first South American country visited by the new Fellowship model. While there, it performed demonstration flights for Avianca and its subsidiaries, SAM (Sociedad Aérea Medellín) and Aerocóndor. At that time, the Colombian government operated a Fokker F-28 Mk.1000 VIP for presidential transport.

 Although the 1978 tour did not yield any immediate orders or purchases from Colombian airlines, Fokker aircraft were indeed acquired in the following decades. SATENA purchased F-28 Mk.3000s in the 1980s, and Avianca, along with its subsidiary SAM, later acquired Fokker 50s and 100s.

What would have happened if these companies had purchased the Fokker F-28 Mk.4000 back in 1978?

Never delivered #31

 

In September 1973, Fokker conducted a promotional tour to Brazil, where they  took the opportunity to show case the Fokker F-28 Fellowship.

The Fokker F-28 Mk.1000 Fellowship PH-ZAV (cn.11032) landed in Brazil on September 11, 1973. Three days later, on September 14, it participated in an air show in the city of São Paulo. Between September 14 and 23, 1973, the first international aerospace show was held at São José dos Campos International Airport in the São Paulo metropolitan area, located 90 kilometers from São Paulo.

Finally, on September 24, 1973, the PH-ZAV performed demonstration flights for VARIG, VASP, and the Brazilian Civil Aviation Directorate.

What would have happened if VASP had purchased theFokker F-28 Fellowship?.

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.