After the marketing agreement with Fairchild was dissolved, Fokker set up Fokker USA and had a bit more success with the F28. New aircraft were sold to Mid Pacific, Pilgrim (just one), Piedmont, Altair and Empire. The last three all merged up and the aircraft ended up with US Air. There were a larger number of secondhand sales, Piedmont buying the bulk of the old Garuda fleet and ended up with over 40 in their fleet. The Garuda aircraft had been traded to Fokker for larger models so were a further Fokker sale.
Canadian Airlines also built up a good number of secondhand ones at the end which passed to Air Canada but didn't last too much longer there. These were all secondhand, as although Transair was merged into Canadian, they had sold their pair, the only new ones in Canada, well before this, to New Guinea, where they were doubtless flown by Australian pilots well familiar with the type from Fokker's many Antipodean sales.
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