• Aircraft:

  Fokker F27-500 Friendship

• Reg: VH-EWX photos
• Serial #:

  10639

• Airline: East-West Airlines
• Photo Date: Dec 24, 1984
• Uploaded: Jul 02, 2024
• Sydney Kingsford Smith Int'l Airport - YSSY, Australia

Port side view of East-West F-27-500RF Friendship VH-EWX at Sydney Airport YSSY on Christmas Eve 24Dec1984, taken after flying in this F-27 on a 0.7 hour trip from Canberra. VH-EWX Cn 10639, Named 'Sunshine Coast', was Delivered to East-West in Oct 1983 (ex PH-EXG). She was Sold in UK to Jersey European Airways as G-JEAG in Nov 1990. [East West aircraft were ‘turned around’ on the Trans Australia Airlines (TAA) apron, using support equipment (including vehicles/tow-motors) painted in TAA colours.]

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