TC-TOY Fokker F-27 Friendship                                    (c/n  10125)

                                  

                                        In 1960 Turk Hava Yollari (Turkish Airlines) ordered five Friendships from Fairchild and five
                                        from Fokker.  TC-TOY was the third of the Fokker batch and was delivered in October 1960.
                                        Not exactly a large fleet, and certainly not enough to replace their substantial quantity of DC-3s,
                                        which were not completely phased out until the DC-9s came on  board.  The two photos in this
                                        entry are from the Jerry Elmas collection.   The color slide take-off below shows the original 'Flag"
                                        initial livery, while the B&W above illustrates the ultimate paint job.   TC-TOY was operated for
                                        thirteen odd years, and then  wound up flying for OTAL-CTA in Angola in 1975 as D2-FPH. 
                                        It later went to TAAG-Angola as D2-TFK and was withdrawn from use by them sometime in the
                                        1980s.