List of Fokker F28 operators

The following is a list of past and present operators of the Fokker F28 including Fokker F28-0070 (Fokker 70) and Fokker F28-0100 (Fokker 100).

By 2019, no Fokker F28 aircraft remained in civil service (LADE mentioned below is organizationally part of the Argentine Air Force). Fly-SAX was the last airline operator of the F28 worldwide with the last aircraft in service stored in September 2019 due to lack of flight crew.^[1]

In late 2025, the World Air Forces publication by FlightGlobal, which tracks the aircraft inventories of world's air forces and publishes its counts annually, published the World Air Forces 2026 report. According to that report, there were no F28 aircraft in service in any air force (or other military unit) of the world.^[2] The World Air Forces 2026 report does not however list the aircraft of the LADE, and indeed Argentina, through LADE, is the last operator of F28 Fellowship aircraft.^[3]^[4]

The last 2 F28 aircraft in service (as of 2025) are operated by Argentina's LADE, an Argentinian governmental airline that is part of the Argentine Air Force (and thus variously classified as civilian or military or governmental or all of the above).^[3]^[4]

Civil operators

Many of these air carriers formerly operated Fokker F28 aircraft. Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 former operators when known are included as well.

Ansett Express F28 at Perth Airport in the early 1990s

Ansett NT F28 at Perth Airport in the early 1990s.

Germanair Fokker F28 at Frankfurt Airport in 1973

Argentina: Aerolíneas Argentinas; American Falcon; Dinar Líneas Aéreas; LAER - Líneas Aéreas de Entre Rios
Australia: Airlines of New South Wales; Ansett; Ansett Express; Ansett NT; Ansett W.A.; East-West Airlines; Flight West; MacRobertson Miller Airlines
Bangladesh: Biman Bangladesh Airlines
Canada: Air Canada (F28 aircraft operated by regional airline code sharing affiliates including Air Ontario flying Air Canada Connector service); Air Niagara; Air Ontario (operated Air Canada Connector F28 service on behalf of Air Canada); Atlantic Island Airways; Canadian North (operated Fokker 100 and F28 aircraft); Canadian Regional Airlines; Husby Forest Products (corporate operator)^[5]; Intair (Fokker 100 operator); Inter-Canadien (operated Fokker 100 and F28 aircraft); Jetsgo (Fokker 100 operator); Norcanair; Peregrine Air Charter; Time Air (largest F28 operator in Canada flying Canadian Partner service and later Canadian Regional Airlines service on behalf of Canadian Airlines International); Transair; Quebecair
Colombia: ACES Colombia; Satena
Denmark: Cimber Air; Scandinavian Airlines
Ecuador: Icaro Air; TAME
Finland: Blue1 (former operator); Air Botnia
Gabon: Air Gabon
Germany: Bavaria Germanair (Germanair in 1972-1976); LTU
Ghana: Ghana Airways
Guatemala: Aviateca
Indonesia: Garuda Indonesia (largest user with 62 F28 aircraft in the fleet); Kal Star Aviation; Merpati Nusantara Airlines; Pelita Air Service
Italy: Itavia; Unifly
Ivory Coast: Air Ivoire
Jordan: Royal Jordanian
South Korea: Korean Air
Mexico: Click Mexicana (Fokker 100 operator, Mexicana Airlines subsidiary); Mexicana Airlines (Fokker 100 operator); Aviacsa (Fokker 100 operator)
Montenegro: Montenegro Airlines
Myanmar: Myanma Airways
North Macedonia: Palair
Netherlands: KLM Cityhopper (Fokker 70 and Fokker 100 operator, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines subsidiary); Martinair; NLM CityHopper
Nigeria: Nigeria Airways
Norway: Braathens (Braathens S.A.F.E); Scandinavian Airlines
Nauru: Air Nauru
Papua New Guinea: Air Niugini
Peru: Aeroperú; TANS Perú (crashed as TANS Perú Flight 222 in 2003)
South Africa: Comair (South Africa) (1992–1996)
South Korea: Korean Air
Spain: Iberia
Eswatini: Royal Swazi National Airways
Sweden: Linjeflyg; Scandinavian Airlines
Tanzania: Air Tanzania
Turkey: Inter Airlines; Turkish Airlines
United Kingdom: Air Anglia; Air UK
United States: Air21; Altair Airlines; American Airlines (former Fokker 100 operator); America West Express (Fokker 70 aircraft operated by Desert Sun Airlines, a subsidiary of Mesa Airlines); Business Express (acquired a Pilgrim Airlines F28 but did not operate it in scheduled service); Empire Airlines (merged into Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989)); Horizon Air (wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska Air Group); Mid Pacific Air; Midway Airlines (Fokker 100 operator); Novell Inc. (corporate shuttle operator)^[6]; Piedmont Airlines (merged into USAir); Pilgrim Airlines (acquired by Business Express); Temple Eastex Inc. (corporate operator which became Temple-Inland)^[7]; USAir (former Fokker F28 and Fokker 100 operator, renamed US Airways); Wayne Newton (private operator)^[8]

Military and government operators

Military operators

Algeria: Algerian Air Force
Argentina: Argentine Air Force; Argentine Naval Aviation
Bolivia: Bolivian Air Force
Ivory Coast: Cote d'Ivoire Air Force
Colombia: Colombian Air Force - Aircraft retired by 2026.^[2]
Ecuador: Ecuadorian Air Force
Gabon: Gabon Air Force
Ghana: Ghana Air Force
Indonesia: Indonesian Air Force
Malaysia: Royal Malaysian Air Force
Netherlands: Royal Flight
Peru: Peruvian Air Force
Philippines: Philippine Air Force - 1 active in 2024.^[9] Retired by 2026.^[2]
Togo: Togo Air Force

Government operators

Argentina: LADE - Líneas Aéreas Del Estado (2 as of August 2024; being replaced in service by Embraer ERJ 140 and retired)^[3]^[4]
Australia: Department of Transport (1972–82); Airservices Australia (Civil Aviation Authority)
New Zealand: Airways Corporation of New Zealand (Operated by Civil Aviation Authority, Australia)
Tanzania: Tanzania Government Flight Agency

References

^ "World Airline Census 2018". Flightglobal.com. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hoyle, Craig (2025). World Air Forces 2026 (Report). FlightGlobal. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c GASTÓN SENA (23 August 2024). "LADE comienza a usar los Embraer ERJ 140 en vuelos comerciales ¿adiós al Fokker F-28 en América?". Aviacionline (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2026.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gonzalo Mary (1 September 2025). "La Fuerza Aérea Argentina incorpora un nuevo avión Embraer ERJ 140". Infodefensa (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2026.
^ https://www.airliners.net/photo/Fokker-F-28-1000-Fellowship/507908/L
^ https://www.airliners.net/photo/Fokker-F-28-1000-Fellowship/507908/L
^ https://www.airliners.net/photo/Fokker-F-28-1000-Fellowship/2160841/L
^ https://www.airliners.net/photo/Fokker-F-28-1000-Fellowship/474347/L
^ "World Air Forces 2025". Flightglobal Insight. 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.