NZFF

Just curious were there ever any YS-11's operated in NZ?

Bendy , Negatory on that one , I do know the closets one got to the NZ was Fiji and that was a Japanese AF research aircraft , Elint type in the late 1980's .

Thanks, thought as much. I have recently revisited the AFG YS-11 (last on my list of a year long reconstruction of FSX on the PC following a catastrophic HD glitch [A HP thing apparently], which apart from a few quirks (due to it being a 2004 model) is simply excellent, flies well, systems all work and there is a wealth of proper data and documents to help you get to know this aircraft. It seems the design is good much better payload than the HS 748 and good short field performance yet they just could not get a foothold in the turboprop market. It seems they all bit the dust with the introduction of TCAS as mandatory fit in this category of aircraft as it was going to cost more to put it in than the aircraft was worth. Guess the JSDF will just have to do a lot of visiting to NZ skies.

In its time when this YS-11 was released , it really was the head of the class, so it is doing damn well to still get mention.