This is my drawing of Christian Waldemar Viking (OY-KBO). To illustrate that OY-KBO is a mix of different previous designs covering at least three decades - the 50s, the 60s and the 80s. To show you this mix, I've made a few more drawings to illustrate these main contributors.
But let us start with their first design from 1946 (based on photos of the DC-4 SE-BBC "Passad" - this aircraft was used on their first flight to New York on 17 September 1946):
You can't see any of the elements from this 1946 design on today's OY-KBO.
Now over to the main contributor - the late 50s design that came with the Metropolitans
The dark red and blue colours on OY-KBO came from this design, but the viking ship hull lie deeper in the water. The full SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM text also came from this design.
Now to the next main contributor - the design introducted with the long DC-8s and DC-9s around 1966:
The flat dragonhead on OY-KBO is more similar to this 1966 design and the curved line between the white upper fuselage and grey/metal belly on the sharp end also comes from this design. Missing is the black nose tip and the dull black colour in front of the cockpit windows (to reduce glare).
As you can see, non of these three designs had white motor cowling. The white cowling colour and the larger SAS logo came with the all white "Janne" design (the one with the belly strips in the colours of the flags of the three Scandinavian countries).
Is today's OY-KBO suitable for SAS' 60 years celebration? Definately yes, it will be an attraction at different airport around Europe. I'm only sorry that the Americans are left out since the first SAS flights were to USA - and the European SAS started operation first in 1948. Maybe we can hope for an ex. Air Canada A340-313X will get these colours?
Kurt