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Fokker 50: Mature and Flexible
Mature aircraft
The aircraft structure is based on 40 years of experience with the unsurpassed F27 Friendship. This has resulted in an economic repair life of 90,000 landings. In fact, operators use the Fokker 50 on networks with as many as 10 landings per day. The fleetleader has made over 45,000 landings to date as an illustration of the durability of the aircraft. Reliable systems, dependable Pratt & Whitney Canada PW125B engines and extensive operating experience combine to create an impressive 99,6 % technical dispatch reliability.
High operational flexibility
The Fokker 50 offers a choice of design weights to suit any operator's needs: increased range through higher MTOW or reduced navigation and landing charges with standard MTOW / MLW and higher payload offered by the higher MZFW and MLW.
The Fokker 50 long range capability enables a wide variety of destinations to be served and allows long range charter flights - up to 1,800 nm! The high MLW and low fuel burn enable 600 nm out-and-return flights to remote destinations without fuel supply. Alternatively, up to 5 flights of 200 nm range can be made with a full passenger payload without refueling: a truly outstanding multi-hop capability.
The Fokker 50 also has excellent short field performance, which includes London City steep approach capability. Exterior noise levels well below Chapter 3 allow virtually unlimited airport access.
The Fokker 50 also has excellent experience with operations from unpaved runways. Together with its low runway bearing strength requirements an even wider scope of airfields may thus be served.
All Fokker 50s are equipped with integral airstairs making them independent of ground equipment and facilitating comfortable passenger boarding and disembarkation. For increased independence of ground equipment an APU may be installed or may already be available on some aircraft.
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