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.
- 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.