AP-BDQ - All Pakistan Aircraft Registration Marks

Registration:

AP-BDQ

Certificate of Registration Number:

616

Registration Date:

January 11, 1990

Operator/Owner:

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)

Aircraft Type:

Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200

Construction Number:

10253

Line Number:

Year Built:

1964

SelCal Code:

First Flight:

June 4, 1964

Test Flight Registration:

Delivery Date:

Aircraft Name:

"City of R.Y.Khan"

Previous Registration:

PT-LDJ

Previous Operator:

Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais

Fate:

Withdrawn from use in July 2006

Next Registration:

Next Operator:

Additional Remarks:

Construction number 10253. Built in 1964. Registered in the Netherlands as PH-FFU, N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek (KNV) Fokker, June 3, 1964. First flight on June 4, 1964. Registered in Japan as JA8631. Delivered to ANA - All Nippon Airways, June 17, 1964. Number '31' painted on aircraft nose. Registration PH-FFU cancelled on June 25,1964. Sold to Sold to TAA (Trans Australia Airlines), May 12, 1972. Registered in Australia as VH-TFW, June 5, 1972. Arrived in Melbourne, Australia, June 14, 1972. Operated by TAA (Trans Australia Airlines), December 20, 1972. Operated last flight for TAA (Trans Australia Airlines), February 5, 1982. Stored at Brisbane Airport. Registration VH-TFW cancelled on September 16, 1982. Sold to Rio Sul Serviços Aéreos Regionais (RIO-SUL), September 16, 1982. Registered in Brazil as PT-LDJ. Withdrawn from use, October 26, 1989. Sold to PIA, November 1989. Registered in Pakistan as AP-BDQ for PIA. In 1997, AP-BDQ was named "City of R.Y.Khan" to celebrate Pakistan's 50 years of independence. Withdrawn from use in July 2006 and parked at Karachi Airport. In August 2006, during Monsoon rains, AP-BDQ starboard wingtip was broken by bare hulk of PIA's retired Airbus A300B4-203 (AP-BAZ) which was lifted off its jacks by strong winds and struck wing of adjacently parked AP-BDQ. Registration AP-BDQ removed from Pakistan Aircraft Register on December 19, 2007.

Photo:

Fokker F27 Friendship Mk 200

Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200 (Abbas Ali Collection)

Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200 (registration AP-BDQ)