Big Fokkers: An F100 Wishlist

Production of the F100 in 1:400 scale has been rather lopsided with only a small variety of models made focusing on the two US giants and a group of later operators. There is certainly plenty of scope for more F100s if only JC Wings and Gemini Jets can be convinced.

Fokker’s bankruptcy in 1996 was not a reflection of the excellence of their Fokker 100 product line, which had proven itself more than a worthy successor to the F28 and successfully managed to break into the US marketplace with mainline airlines such as American and USAir. ​

​The F100 mould owned by JC Wings, as part of their broad and decent regional aircraft line, and used by Gemini is excellent. It is a shame that it has been quite ignored by both manufacturers especially when the F100 got over the hump of losing its original manufacturer and the subsequent spare parts shortage to gain something of a second life with a variety of operators in Europe and Australia. 

​Having not really made much of a dent in Asia it isn’t especially surprising that JC Wings have largely ignored their mould but even they would you expect have produced a China Eastern version. Gemini have less excuse but they are after all Gemini and models from the last century simply rarely fit their criteria for being made.

The Mandarin release was a surprise

​A few F100 releases over the past couple of years show the mould is still available and I think there is fertile ground for more F100s, especially when Europe is taken into the equation. It is quite easy to come up with over 50 big Fokkers just begging to be made. Here’s a rundown by geographic region of 52:

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UK

The most important Fokker region for me is the UK where the type saw plenty of service with smaller scheduled airlines like:

AirUK / KLM UK

G B_NZ [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Air Europe

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

British Midland

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Ken Fielding/https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

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Northern & Mid Europe

​Swissair – As launch customer for the F100 it is very surprising that no Swissair examples have been made at all. Plus there are multiple available liveries, although surely the chocolate stripe is the best:

Michel Gilliand [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

​The F100 was popular with a variety of well-known and long-standing regional airlines:

Air Inter

Michel Gilliand [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Brit Air

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

TAT

christian hanuise [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Portugalia

Pieter van Marion from Netherlands [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Transwede

Torsten Maiwald [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Helvetic

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

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Germany

​Later in life Germany became an important F100 bolthole:

Air Berlin

Sergey Ryabtsev [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Deutsche BA / dBA

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Rob Hodgkins [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Germania

Juergen Lehle [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

Hapag Lloyd Express

Michael Frische [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

OLT Express

Björn Strey [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

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The Med

The Mediterranean region also saw a variety of F100 operators often for smaller national airlines from countries under-represented in 1:400:

Alpi Eagles

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Carpatair

Fabrizio Berni [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]

Palair Macedonian

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Torsten Maiwald [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Montenegro Airlines

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North America

​American (with 75) and USAir (with 40) were the big US operators but F100s also wore the attractive yellow of Midway and hopped across the border to serve with JetsGo. InterCanadien has already been done but it’s short-lived rename to Intair is still a possibility.

Midway Airlines

Anthony92931 [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Intair

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

JetsGo

RuthAS [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]

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Latin America

​Fokkers were popular in Latin America especially at Mexicana where the type wore many scheme variants over the years. TAM of Brasil was also a major operator.

Avianca

Rafael Luiz Canossa [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

AVIACSA

https://www.planespotters.net/photo/310569/xa-rkm-aviacsa-fokker-f100

Mexicana

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Richard Silagi [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

Mexicana Click

André Du-pont (Mexico Air Spotters) [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

André Du-pont (Mexico Air Spotters) [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

André Du-pont (Mexico Air Spotters) [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Ocean Air

Morio [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]

TAM

Pedro Aragão [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL]

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

Wayraperu

Christian Volpati [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

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Asia

​Never a major seller in widebody happy Asia the F100 has in recent years become a popular type in Iran.

China Eastern

JetPix [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Iran Air

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Iran Asseman

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Korean Air

Qeshm Air

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Australia

​The most F100s left in service operate in OZ where Alliance keep over 20 online:

Air Niugini

Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Alliance

Jeff Gilbert [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]

Skywest

Darren Koch [GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html) or GFDL 1.2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html)]