AP-BDB - All Pakistan Aircraft Registration Marks

Registration:

AP-BDB

Certificate of Registration Number:

602

Registration Date:

February 16, 1988

Operator/Owner:

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)

Aircraft Type:

Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200

Construction Number:

10292

Line Number:

Year Built:

1966

SelCal Code:

First Flight:

January 10, 1966

Test Flight Registration:

Delivery Date:

Aircraft Name:

"City of Jhelum"

Previous Registration:

VH-FNM

Previous Operator:

Air Queensland

Fate:

Withdrawn from use in July 2006

Next Registration:

Next Operator:

Additional Remarks:

Construction number 10292. Built in 1966. Registered in the Netherlands as PH-FIK, N.V. Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek (KNV) Fokker, January 6, 1966. First flight on January 10, 1966. Registered in Australia as VH-FNM, January 14, 1966. Registration PH-FIK cancelled on January 15, 1966. Delivered to Ansett-ANA (Ansett-Australian National Airways), January 15, 1966. Leased to ASA (Airlines of South Australia), November 1966. Operated by Ansett-MAL (Mandated Air Lines), Papua New Guinea, February 17, 1967. Ansett-MAL renamed as Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea, June 24, 1968. Returned to Ansett Airlines of Australia, November 1, 1973. Leased to Bush Pilots Airways (BPA), October 25, 1980. BPA renamed as Air Queensland, January 4, 1982. Sold to Air Queensland, October 10, 1985. Withdrawn from service at Brisbane Airport, June 1987. Sold to PIA, December 12, 1987. Registration VH-FNM cancelled on January 22, 1988. Registered in Pakistan as AP-BDB, January 24, 1988. In 1997, AP-BDB was named "City of Jhelum" to celebrate Pakistan's 50 years of independence. Aircraft withdrawn from use in July 2006. Registration AP-BDB removed from Pakistan Aircraft Register on May 7, 2007. Aircraft sold to Pakistan Navy, May 18, 2007. Pak Navy aircraft serial AR-NZX, April 12, 2008.

Photo:

PIA Fokker F27 Friendship Mk 200

Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200 (registration AP-BDB)