VH-FNC  Fokker F.27 Friendship 200                           (c/n  10143)

                                  

                                       First delivered to Ansett-ANA early in 1960, this Friendship was sold in in 1977 to Merpati
                                       Nusantara Airlines in Indonesia as PK-MFR.   Barry Maclean's shot (above) was taken
                                       at Essendon in the mid 1960s.  The aircraft had been re-painted almost from the outset in
                                       the livery of the Airlines of N.S.W. subsidiary.   In 1969 it received a minor titling change
                                       becoming "Ansett  - Airlines of New South Wales" with the pseudo "Delta" tail  logo.  Greg
                                       Banfield's shot of it thus adorned (below) was taken at Mascot in September 1974