The Fokker F27-100 short-haul airliner suited the NAC provincial network perfectly and, like the Viscount, was Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop-powered would prove popular. The 'Friendship' had been flying since 1956.

Air New Zealand Flight 4374 was a flight from Gisborne which crashed while landing at Auckland in poor weather, killing two of the four people on board. [1][2] The Fokker Friendship F27-500 was eight years old at the time of the crash.

The Fokker F-27 Friendship is a 44 seat turboprop airliner which was designed in the Netherlands in the 1950’s as a replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. New Zealand’s National Airways Corporation (NAC), and later Air New Zealand operated 24 of these aircraft from 1960 until 1990, comprised of 13 F27-100 models and 11 F27-500 models.

2023年7月4日 · I've just completed the old 72nd Airfix F.27 as a series 100 in the delivery colours with NAC (own decals as worn by early non-radar equipped Friendships in 1960). I've made a number of mods, including the ride height of the main gear, adding height to the dorsal fillet, adding the bullet fairing...

The Fokker F27 Friendship is a turboprop airliner developed and manufactured by the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It is the most numerous post-war aircraft manufactured in the Netherlands; the F27 was also one of the most successful European airliners of its era.

2018年1月8日 · The F27 was especially popular in Australasia being selected in Australia itself for both Trans Australia and Ansett-ANA and across the ditch in New Zealand for the domestic national carrier National Airways Corporation. NAC’s first F27, ZK-BXA, arrived in Wellington on December 12, 1960.

Description: Air New Zealand Fokker F27 Friendship aircraft ZK-NAO on a sightseeing flight during the Wellington Airport 25th Anniversary Air Show. Photographs taken 21 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Greg King.

福克F27友誼式客機（Fokker F27 "Friendship"）是一款由荷蘭飛機製造商福克生產的渦輪螺旋槳飛機，屬32座等級的小型客機，經常被用於區域性或離島航線等航程較短的路線。

2023年8月4日 · It had the Vickers Viscount as its turboprop main trunk aircraft, the Fokker Friendship F27 was already the turboprop regional route mainstay as it phased out the Douglas DC-3. NAC was under pressure in the 1960s to order the British made BAC 1-11 as its first jet aircraft, but eventually convinced the Government of the day that it should order ...

2015年11月18日 · Fokker F27-500 Friendship; Airline: New Zealand National Airways Corporation (NAC) Serial #: 10365