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Old 22nd Feb 2018, 09:42
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As we seem to be interested in PH-MOL, it was third off the line, the first two were scrapped quite early on but MOL was leased out all over the place, often for quite lengthy periods of a year or so (as with Air Anglia). It went around Europe, Africa, Asia, and got as far as New Guinea. After Fokker finally sold it off, long after the F28 was out of production, it was dumped in Bamako, Mali, where the Dutch Aviodrome museum made quite some efforts to get it airworthy again to bring it back home, but to no avail.

Google Earth seems to show a couple of F28s pushed out into the weeds at Bamako, here. I hope, having now passed her 50th birthday, she's the one at the top and not the one at the bottom.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@12.53.../data=!3m1!1e3
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