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Post by sierraair on Feb 20, 2022 16:01:09 GMT -5
The 80s' favorite flying bread box. MVA Mississippi Valley Airlines Shorts 330
MVA Mississippi Valley Airlines Shorts 330 (OC)
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Post by sierraair on Feb 21, 2022 20:19:03 GMT -5
Robert - thank you for this morning's coffee jumpstart!Though I haven't found actual confirmation, I suspect the VIASA blue is the same as the KLM blue. KLM provided a good amount of support when VIASA launched in 1960, including an ongoing pool service and aircraft leases. Through the KLM deal, VIASA was actually the first South American carrier to operate a widebody across the Atlantic. VIASA Douglas DC-8-63
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Post by darrenvox on Feb 26, 2022 10:30:22 GMT -5
sweet stuff
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Post by sierraair on Apr 2, 2022 23:07:45 GMT -5
Now available I've been wanting to do the Air Sinai Fokkers for years but there's never been any photos - the leases were short and there wasn't a lot of photography from Cairo in the 80s. As luck would have it, two photos showed up in some of my photo groups within the last week, one from each side! Alisarda Douglas DC-9-30
Air Sinai Fokker F27 Friendship 600
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Post by darrenvox on Apr 7, 2022 17:40:13 GMT -5
looking good!!
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Post by sierraair on Apr 11, 2022 19:08:17 GMT -5
Retiring a few more DWAI aircraft and expanding the number of liveries. If you've been following along at home for a while, ACA was the former Transair aircraft that played a game of cat-and-mouse in the Canadian Arctic with a creditor, before being flow to London to be sold to Biman. Bangladesh Biman Boeing 707-320C
Bangladesh Biman Boeing 707-320C (Big Stripe)
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Post by noob21 on Apr 11, 2022 20:51:10 GMT -5
interesting, I've never seen the biman 707s before
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Post by darrenvox on Apr 25, 2022 10:30:05 GMT -5
neither have i, i keep thinking of the dc-10s they used to have
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Post by sierraair on May 24, 2022 22:00:40 GMT -5
Now up on the blog. The Pan Am 747s come in two mid-80s varieties, with the original narrow blue stripe, and the wider stripe introduced in 1983/84. Best I can tell, only about two aircraft had the wider stripe in 1983.
Also by the mid-80s, all the aircraft had transitioned from their original celestial names to the nautical names. I suspect that the Clipper Ocean Spray name was a little tongue-in-cheek, since Ocean Spray the juice had been around for at least 50 years, and they had a national television ad campaign on the air, so no one can convince me Pan Am didn't know.
On the other side of the size spectrum - Gill Aviation of Newcastle later became Gill Airways, but at the time, they only had one Cessna and it was likely used for charters and corporate flights. Pan Am Boeing 747-100
Pan Am Boeing 747-100 (Wide Stripe)
Gill Aviation Cessna 402C
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Post by sierraair on Jun 10, 2022 19:47:12 GMT -5
Now uploaded. This one was fun. It has a bunch of little details left over from its time with Flying Tigers. For P3Dv4+ users, it also has a custom _m texture to really show off the features. The current AIG-converted DC-8s have rudder cuts that don't match the paintkit and don't match the _m texture, but Jay at AIG has been great and will be releasing updated models soon. Aer Turas Douglas DC-8-63CF
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Post by sierraair on Jun 18, 2022 14:25:24 GMT -5
I mostly made this for Carl ( perficad ), but I might also find use for it if I can figure out what it was doing in 1983. It was back from lease to Libyan Arab and didn't go to Arkia until late-1984; yet it wasn't included in any scheduled services so...either charters or stored in Dublin. Also the last Aer Lingus 707 in service. Stayed until 1986, long after all the others had gone. Aer Lingus Boeing 707-320C
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Post by perficad on Jun 18, 2022 14:30:21 GMT -5
I mostly made this for Carl ( perficad ), but I might also find use for it if I can figure out what it was doing in 1983. It was back from lease to Libyan Arab and didn't go to Arkia until late-1984; yet it wasn't included in any scheduled services so...either charters or stored in Dublin. Also the last Aer Lingus 707 in service. Stayed until 1986, long after all the others had gone. Aer Lingus Boeing 707-320C
This is excellent, thanks!! Also - if I can make a request, would you be able to produce a repaint of the 3 different Lingus 747 registrations? If you have not done so already? (maybe I missed) EI-ASI, ASJ, and the BED
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Post by darrenvox on Jun 18, 2022 19:54:21 GMT -5
nice work
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Post by sierraair on Jun 29, 2022 19:35:03 GMT -5
I've long suspected that the two Metros DLT leased from NFD wore the colored stripes but I wasn't ever able to prove it until recently. DLT Swearingen Metro III (lsf NFD)
DLT Swearingen Metro II (ex City-Flug)
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Post by sierraair on Jul 3, 2022 15:52:21 GMT -5
Not a lot of information about this one, but I think it came together pretty well. Norcanair Fairchild F-27J
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