Since doing my LAN Ecuador post, I was looking on jetphotos of the old Quito Airport, discovered a small airline called Icaro,
I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to find the fate of a certain aircraft HC-CDT, which had an accident due to a rejected takeoff and collision with ILS equipment. The aircraft was DBR but it wasn’t all that badly damaged and no one was injured so it was put on display at a hostel in Salcedo,
A little thing I like doing is going looking for these displayed/abandoned aircraft, all beginning with the hundreds dumped across Brazil, and I noticed it vanished off Google Earth in the late 2010s, supposedly being moved to Santa Isabel. Anyway, still can’t find it in its new spot but discovered this cool page detailing Ecuador’s history with the Fokker aircraft including the above.
If we’re going off a 2010 cutoff point for airlines and liveries, the only airline outside of small African ones that operated it was Biman who kept theirs going till late 2012, though if this was pushed back to say 2005, it would open up a lot more operators such as Tame and some Indonesian airlines, plus if we get a South African airport, SAA Express operated them until 2008.
I love Tame’s livery and it really suits this aircraft,
Such a lovely little aircraft and it would be fantastic to see it one day.