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F-GGPN_1988-06-25_MUC_1290_SB

 

Photo taken by Stephan Barth, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

1988-06-25 (25 June 1988)

 

F-GGPN

Fairchild Hiller FH-227B

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Uni-Air

 

Still wearing an Air Polynésie colour scheme, F-GGPN visited Munich on a flight for its new operator Uni Air. Nearly ten years after this visit, the aircraft was sold to Ecuador as HC-BXC. It flew for Austro Aero and was retired at Cuenca after a few years - and is probably still existant, it was last seen there in derelict condition in 2021. (Source: Stephan Barth on airhistory.net)

 

The Viscount behind is Hot Air’s G-BAPF.

 

This FH-227B started out as N7813M with Mohawk Airlines in February 1967 and was later operated by Allegheny Airlines. Pan Adria Airways / Aero Servis / Transadria used it as YU-ALD between November 1974 and January 1980, Air Polynésie / Air Tahiti as F-ODMR between May 1980 and April 1988 when it went on to Uni-Air as F-GGPN. The final operator was Ecuador’s Austro Aéreo from May 1997. Since that airline’s demise the impounded Fairchild rested in a parking lot next to Mariscal La Mar Airport in Cuenca. (Sources: scramble.nl, airhistory.net). The most recent photo I found is from October 2013.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/F27_162

 

This airframe as N7813M with Mohawk Airlines at PHL in September 1969:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/1/30981_1184174363.jpg

 

This airframe as YU-ALD with Pan Adria at ZAG in August 1978:

www.planes.cz/photo/1074/1074509/1074509.jpg

 

This airframe as F-ODMR with Air Polynésie in 1985:

www.flickr.com/photos/90072326@N04/8189755187

 

F-GGPN with Uni-Air ca. late 1980s (full colours, no titles):

www.fokker-aircraft.info/uniair-fggpn.jpg

 

F-GGPN at Dinard, France, in April 1996 (all white):

www.flickr.com/photos/133813370@N04/53193956494

 

This airframe as F-WQFK mit Med Air International at OPF in February 1997:

www.flickr.com/photos/128485084@N08/32913696997

 

This airframe as HC-BXC with Austro Aéreo ca. late 1990s:

blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBdrS...

 

HC-BXC stored at Cuenca-Mariscal Lamar, Ecuador, in October 2021:

www.airhistory.net/photo/408407/HC-BXC

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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Uploaded on December 28, 2024
Taken on June 25, 1988