{"id":2971,"date":"2026-06-17T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jaermuseet.no\/flyhistorisk\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:57:50","slug":"fokker-f-27-100-friendship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jaermuseet.no\/flyhistorisk\/en\/fokker-f-27-100-friendship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fokker F.27-100\u00a0Friendship\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Fokker F.27 Friendship is perfect for rural Norway.\u00a0It was built to be able to land on short runways, of which\u00a0there are many in Norway. The aircraft is also equipped\u00a0with a pressurized cabin and turbine engines, enabling it\u00a0to fly both high and fast. These were remarkable\u00a0innovations when\u00a0the aircraft\u00a0was developed in the\u00a0mid-1950s. In addition, the engines are mounted so high\u00a0that there is room for large propellers, which makes the\u00a0aircraft safer if one of the engines should fail.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The museum\u2019s aircraft is painted in the livery it wore\u00a0while flying for\u00a0Braathens\u00a0SAFE from 1966 to 1976.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Braathens SAFE received its first of eight Fokker F.27 Friendship in 1958, at the same time the company began operating the routes Oslo-\u00c5lesund and Bergen-\u00c5lesund-Trondheim. With this aircraft, the company increased its capacity by 600 percent, from an annual passenger total of 101,000 in 1958 to 628,000 in 1959. At the time, the aircraft became the most dominant type on its domestic routes. It was also used to transport flowers from Italy, as well as distributing mail and newspapers throughout Norway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first pilots to operate the aircraft must have felt tremendous excitement. The pressurized cabin and powerful turbine engines were one thing, but the aircraft was also much lighter than comparable aircraft. Instead of being riveted together, many of the rivets were replaced with adhesives, and much of the metal was replaced with fiberglass. The landing gear can be raised and lowered using pneumatics (compressed air) instead of hydraulics. With all these innovations, the aircraft set a new standard for future smaller passenger aircraft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In January 1969, Braathens SAFE acquired its first jet aircraft, a Boeing 737-200. In March of the same year, the company acquired the Fokker F.28 Fellowship jet, which was the successor to the Fokker F.27 Friendship. Nevertheless, the old turboprop aircraft remained in service until Braathens SAFE\u2019s last scheduled flight with the type on 31 May 1976. The company sold its last three Fokker F.27 Friendship aircraft to Busy Bee Air Service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The museum\u2019s aircraft was purchased by\u00a0Braathens\u00a0SAFE in 1966 and sold to Busy\u00a0Bee Air\u00a0Service in 1976. When Busy Bee\u00a0went bankrupt in 1992, the aircraft was\u00a0bought back by\u00a0Braathens\u00a0SAFE, which\u00a0repainted it in the livery it had worn when\u00a0they owned it in the 1960s. Once fully\u00a0repainted, it was donated to Flyhistorisk\u00a0Museum Sola in 1993.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Type<\/strong><\/td>| Short-range passenger aircraft<\/td><\/tr> | First flight<\/strong><\/td> | 1955<\/td><\/tr> | Length<\/strong><\/td> | 23,6 m<\/td><\/tr> | Wingspan<\/strong><\/td> | 29 m<\/td><\/tr> | Height<\/strong><\/td> | 8,7 m<\/td><\/tr> | Weight, empty and max<\/strong><\/td> | 10\u00a0260 \/ 17\u00a0710 kg<\/td><\/tr> | Engines<\/strong><\/td> | 2x Rolls-Royce Dart<\/td><\/tr> | Engine power<\/strong><\/td> | 2x 2\u00a0320 hp<\/td><\/tr> | Maximum speed<\/strong><\/td> | 480 km\/h<\/td><\/tr> | Range<\/strong><\/td> | 2600 km<\/td><\/tr> | Crew<\/strong><\/td> | 2x pilot, 2x cabin crew<\/td><\/tr> | Passenger capacity<\/strong><\/td> | 44<\/td><\/tr> | Country of origin<\/strong><\/td> | The Netherlands<\/td><\/tr> | Museum number<\/strong><\/td> | FMSG2010.20.01<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n | <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Fokker F.27 Friendship is perfect for rural Norway.\u00a0It was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-image-size-large"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n |