Airlines that adopted another's livery
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Airlines that adopted another's livery
Inspired by the Viscount thread running at the moment Channel Aiways adopted Continental's then colour scheme when they purchased their Viscount 810 fleet, and went on to use it on their Trident and 1-11 fleets.
More recently Jet2 has adopted the Allegiant scheme for their 'Holidays' aircraft.
Are there historical examples? I think the yellow livery that Northeast (UK) used before they were absorbed into British Airways was at least loosely based on their American namesake. Apart from that I can't recall any other instances.
More recently Jet2 has adopted the Allegiant scheme for their 'Holidays' aircraft.
Are there historical examples? I think the yellow livery that Northeast (UK) used before they were absorbed into British Airways was at least loosely based on their American namesake. Apart from that I can't recall any other instances.
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I seem to recall an American buying several DC-6s for hauling freight out of Miami. He also hired some ex-USAF mechanics to look after his fleet and instructed them to come up with a paint job - so he ended up with a quasi-MATS scheme.
Aviateca leased a Court 1-11 and adopted their scheme for a while?
Aviateca leased a Court 1-11 and adopted their scheme for a while?
That's not the same thing though. Throughout the seventies Aer Lingus 737-204 EI-ASH overwintered in Canada and spent the summer here in that operator's colours with a Shamrock on the tail.
Tomjet/Sunwing have some hybrid liveries too I think.
Was it Flying Colours* that shared a brace of 757s with BA in the mid eighties? I was working in Brentford at the time and would see them going past the office window on a regular basis in some sort of hybrid scheme.
*Not Flying Colours as the timeframe is wrong.
Tomjet/Sunwing have some hybrid liveries too I think.
Was it Flying Colours* that shared a brace of 757s with BA in the mid eighties? I was working in Brentford at the time and would see them going past the office window on a regular basis in some sort of hybrid scheme.
*Not Flying Colours as the timeframe is wrong.
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It wasn't just the leased 1-11 they had in that scheme, several other aircraft including their own 1-11s were painted in the same manner. They seem to change scheme several times over the years.
Fokker produced a scheme for an F27 which I think was the maritime patrol version.
Not long after, Mike Keegan introduced Heralds to BAF which he'd acquired a little earlier.
Their first Heralds rolled out of the hangar with a remarkably similar paint scheme.....
Not long after, Mike Keegan introduced Heralds to BAF which he'd acquired a little earlier.
Their first Heralds rolled out of the hangar with a remarkably similar paint scheme.....
That's not the same thing though. Throughout the seventies Aer Lingus 737-204 EI-ASH overwintered in Canada and spent the summer here in that operator's colours with a Shamrock on the tail.
Tomjet/Sunwing have some hybrid liveries too I think.
Was it Flying Colours* that shared a brace of 757s with BA in the mid eighties? I was working in Brentford at the time and would see them going past the office window on a regular basis in some sort of hybrid scheme.
*Not Flying Colours as the timeframe is wrong.
Tomjet/Sunwing have some hybrid liveries too I think.
Was it Flying Colours* that shared a brace of 757s with BA in the mid eighties? I was working in Brentford at the time and would see them going past the office window on a regular basis in some sort of hybrid scheme.
*Not Flying Colours as the timeframe is wrong.
Another Nigerian carrier, Okada Air, acquired several BAC 1-11s from BCAL and the livery worn resembled BCAL's, but with the lower stripe in navy blue. Other aircraft types in the fleet adopted this scheme also
Copa, the mainstream airline of Panama, has long had a dead ringer livery from United in the USA. But that's not AH&N.
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Copa, the mainstream airline of Panama, has long had a dead ringer livery from United in the USA. But that's not AH&N.
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SAS were a significant shareholder in the foundation of what we now know as Thai, and supplied early aircraft, notably swapping the Scandinavian dragon headed longship cheat line motif for a (very) slightly more exotic asian dragon head on the Thai aircraft...oh and a red lower cheat line.
Aviateca leased a Court Line 1-11 1970/71 and adopted their colour scheme for their new build BAC 1-11 500 - then later they leased another Court Line a/c, but did not adopt the OU livery on any other of their fleet.
Vacationair Canada adopted Air Europe's livery on their 737-200's.
We all thought at the time it was the usual seasonal 737 swaps that AE OM and KT did with US and Canadian Airlines but not so with Vacationair.
It could be said that Inex Adria adopted Alitalia's striped livery for their new DC-9's but the evidence is not to hand.
North American Airlines resembles Caledonian Airways (1988) and looks remarkably similar on their 757's and 767's
And obviously both Air Europe and Air Europa shared liveries' with Air Europa keeping the UK parent's livery for some years after their demise in 1991.
Air 2000 and Canada 3000 were the same too, with Canada 3000 keeping their original livery to their demise.
Of course all of these airlines had ''connections' at the formation of their lives, so not 'copied' as such.
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Vacationair Canada adopted Air Europe's livery on their 737-200's.
We all thought at the time it was the usual seasonal 737 swaps that AE OM and KT did with US and Canadian Airlines but not so with Vacationair.
It could be said that Inex Adria adopted Alitalia's striped livery for their new DC-9's but the evidence is not to hand.
North American Airlines resembles Caledonian Airways (1988) and looks remarkably similar on their 757's and 767's
And obviously both Air Europe and Air Europa shared liveries' with Air Europa keeping the UK parent's livery for some years after their demise in 1991.
Air 2000 and Canada 3000 were the same too, with Canada 3000 keeping their original livery to their demise.
Of course all of these airlines had ''connections' at the formation of their lives, so not 'copied' as such.
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Air 2000 in fact. Pre cursor to Flying Colours. One aircraft leased to BA for the winter season, which was generally the quiet season for charter outfits esp when starting up. And was also the reason that the Canada 3000 operation commenced, although that failed to pan out as originally planned.
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Another one is a range of Convair 580 operators who followed the style of onetime major user of them, Frontier, with three coloured bands which then kick up over the rear of the fuselage. Here's the original :
and here's a range of similar ones, from long after Frontier gave their fleet up. No other aircraft type seems to have gone for this scheme.
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They certainly did paint at least a pair of DC-6s in a Court Line style scheme, whether any other piston types they had around then succumbed I don't know... they seemed to have "rebranded" quite regularly judging by the number of different schemes one can see in a Google search. I see they had a Connie for a while, not sure if that would have looked fantastic or awful in Court colours!
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I'm not sure whether it was a manufacturers scheme or which airline had it first but I've seen pictures of G-AVCN with Aurigny and Loganair markings. G-AXKB also in the same scheme with Loganair markings.
Well I thought the Court scheme was one of the best ever. It certainly was more sophisticated than the Braniff "end of the plain plane" colours, which were just a single overall colour, different for each aircraft, with a white tail.
Nice story about the Court scheme. A meeting was set up at the factory at Hurn to discuss the detailed application of the scheme. On one side were the key personnel from the very 1970 design house who devised it, their offices just off Carnaby Street in London. Apparently they went down to Bournemouth in a multi-coloured custom painted Mini, and entered the offices in trendy-for-the-era Afghan coats and John Lennon-style clothes. On the other side of the table was the old hand paint shop foreman, in brown work coat, long serving, probably in 1970 still ex-WW2 RAF. Moderating all this were the BAC sales team in office suits.
Despite all the mismatch, BAC did a great job in applying the scheme just so. The foreman asked for the British Standard BS.2660 colour numbers, and the design team just rolled them straight off the top of their head.
Nice story about the Court scheme. A meeting was set up at the factory at Hurn to discuss the detailed application of the scheme. On one side were the key personnel from the very 1970 design house who devised it, their offices just off Carnaby Street in London. Apparently they went down to Bournemouth in a multi-coloured custom painted Mini, and entered the offices in trendy-for-the-era Afghan coats and John Lennon-style clothes. On the other side of the table was the old hand paint shop foreman, in brown work coat, long serving, probably in 1970 still ex-WW2 RAF. Moderating all this were the BAC sales team in office suits.
Despite all the mismatch, BAC did a great job in applying the scheme just so. The foreman asked for the British Standard BS.2660 colour numbers, and the design team just rolled them straight off the top of their head.
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I always thought how smart the two-tone blue Autair scheme looked; the Court pink, green and orange appeared to me garish, but beauty is as they say, in the eye of the beholder.