Originally Posted by
zlin77
Ansett-ANA Australia when they introduced the DC-6B with Ex-Braniff Aircraft retained with minor changes the Braniff livery, I think it was used on other types including the Convair 340 and Electra.
Indeed, the classic Braniff red/black striped livery. Although it came from when Ansett were independent, before merging as Ansett-ANA, and it was their first Convair, it came with the colours that Reg Ansett kept for his fleet. They did indeed then apply it to everything, subsequent DC-6s and Electras, as well as what they inherited from ANA, and even into the 1970s their 727s and DC9s had a scheme which recognisably was based on aspects of it.
Ansett had orders for new Convairs in hand, but this Braniff aircraft built a few months before was surplus and it had been placed from new in store, so it still had the manufacturers new paint on it. Like the subsequent Ansett Convairs they didn't fit it with supplementary fuel tanks for delivery from California, but it came the "long way round", through Gander, London and across Asia.