This aircraft was built by Short Brothers PLC, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 1980

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BIFG (CofR G-BIFG/R1) - October 02, 1980

Registered to Short Brothers Ltd. Belfast

First flown at Belfast - September 26, 1980

Sold to Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas SA, Argentina - November 1980

Sold to SAAB Aircraft Holdings Inc - December 09, 1987

Entered onto the Uunited States Aircraft Register as N487NS - April 11, 1988

Registered to Opex Aviation Inc. Santa Paula, California

Sold to Skyport, Australia - October 30, 1988

Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - March 23, 1989

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HUS - May 03, 1989

Registered to the Skyport Group, Australia

Leased to Sunstate Airlines, Brisbane - September 24, 1989

Returned to  the Skyport Group at the end of the lease - April 11, 1991

Sold to Syncom Australia Pty Limited, Milton, Queensland - August 1992

Leased to the Skyport Group as the registered operator - August 1992

Leased to Chartair, Alice Springs, as the registered operator - April 1993

Sub-leased to Air Kangaroo Island, Adelaide, South Australia as the registered operator - September 1995

Returned to Chartair, Alice Springs - March 01, 1996

Sub-leased to Air Tiwi, Darwin, Northern Territory as the registered operator - April 1996

Returned to Syncom Australia Pty Ltd - January 1997

Leased to Capiteq, Darwin as the registered operator - January 1997

Sub-leased to Air North Regional, Darwin - January 1997

Sub-leased to Air Tiwi, Darwin - January 1997

Returned to Air North Regional at the end of the sub-lease - November 1998

Withdrawn from use and ferried to Alice Springs for overhaul - November, 1998

Sold to Sunflower Airlines, Nadi, Fiji - December 1998

Delivered to Sunflower Airlines, Fiji - January 1999

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - March 03, 1999

Entered onto the Fiji Aircraft Register as DQ-SUN - March 04, 1999

Sold to Deraya Air Taxi, Jakarta, Indonesia - October 2000

Cancelled from the Fiji Aircraft Register - October 19, 2000

Entered onto the Indonesian Aircraft Register as PK-DSB - October 19, 2000

Registered to Deraya Air Taxi, Jakarta

Deraya Air Taxi changed its name to Dabi Air Nusantara - March, 2009

Current with Dari Air Nusantara

VH-HUS. Air Tiwi - in the standard livery at Melbourne Essendon Airport, date unknown.

(R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 1040-147.)