By: tenthije - 10th July 2004 at 13:05
not in the near term, there are too many 2nd hand planes available. They do have plans to make it in the future.
By: Hand87_5 - 10th July 2004 at 12:42
Any plan for the beautiful F100 ?
By: tenthije - 10th July 2004 at 12:18
Rekkof has been attempting to restart the F70 production since 1996 now. They say they are very close to starting production of improved F70s in a few months. Apparantly an announcement is to be made at Farnborough show two weeks from now.
According to a few newspapers including (German) Handelsblatt and (Dutch) Telegraaf and Spits the idea is to make 45 planes a year at Lelystad airport. At the moment Rekkof claims to have sold 50 planes to 2 airlines, but won’t reveal the buyers.
On JP.net someone who has often given inside information mentioned that KLM Cityhopper wants to get 10 with another 10 on option. Who the other buyer is was not revealed. Probably Air France. VLM is also a good possibilitiy considering that VLM is owned by the same guy that wants to restart the production. In the past VLM has often stated that they want to get F70s.
So that sounds all nice and well. Remember though that similar announcements have been made for almost every Farnborough Air Show and Paris Air Show since 1996. I hope they will pull through, but for me seeing is believing.
By: by738 - 10th July 2004 at 12:03
The Rekkof rumour has surfaced a few times before over past few years but has never come to anything.
An Airliners.net search will no doubt reveal the multiple previous rumours.
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