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[Nilsfr91]

Hello everyone !
After being quite busy with work, and paint some present day liveries, I am coming back here to share some 'retro' liveries again.

I decided to do a remaster of my earlier liveries (Air France long-haul fleet circa early 2000's, Corsair's 747-300/A330-200's and leased aircrafts circa early 2000's, Air Austral...), and so I started with the Air France liveries.

First is the 777-300ER, the included variations are:
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and GE logos on engines
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and GE logos on engines (dirty early 2010's)
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and 'Crevette' logos on engines
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines - high density 'Caraïbes and Indian Ocean' cabin
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines (dirty early 2010's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines - high density 'Caraïbes and Indian Ocean' cabin (dirty 2010's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines wifi (F-GZNB late 2016-late 2019)

Accurate time periods for each AF -300ER for each variations are included in the fltsim.txt file.



The 777-200ER will soon follow, then the 747-200/300/400 and to finish the A330-200/A340-300.
As usual the liveries are available in my Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xfEJWbBtUiiOyf2A6Mi7U9SkoG1qZqC7?usp=sharing).

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And now here are the 777-200's. These are the included variations:

- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and GE logos on engines and additional 'France 98' stickers for the soccer World Cup held in France in 1998 (wore by the first 3 -200ER F-GSPA, F-GSPB and F-GSPC delivered in early 1998)
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and GE logos on engines circa late 90's
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers and GE logos on engines + Skyteam logo (2000's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines (2000's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' +GE logos on engines (2000's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines (dirty 2010's/2020's)

Same as the -300ER, accurate time periods for each variations are included in the fltsim.txt file.

[Nilsfr91]

Here we go with the first Airbuses: the A340's.

The -200's come with 4 variations: 2 AF liveries (one for the early 90's, the other for the late 90's) and 2 AF Asie liveries (early 1994 livery with the Asie titles under the windows and the 1994-1997 livery)

For the -300's, there's two variations (large 3rd door and small 3rd door) for each era, which are: 1990's Groupe Air France pre Skyteam, 2000's Groupe Air France Skyteam logo and 2000's AF-KLM logo + 'Crevette' engine logos.
Note that there is 2 additional variations for the A340-300: 2000's AF-KLM logo without engine logos (only seen on 2 aircrafts for 1 year) and the sole AF A340 to have kept the old livery well into the 2010's (F-GLZU who exited the fleet in december 2018).

[Nilsfr91]

Now onto the A330's. The liveries variations are:

- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers (early 2000's)
- old AF livery with 'Groupe Air France' stickers (late 2000's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines (late 2000's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines (2010's)
- old AF livery with "new" 'Air France-KLM stickers' and 'Crevette' logos on engines wifi dome F-GZCF (2018-2020)



The 747-400 fleet is now in the works, the pack will include all the livery variations from the first -400 delivered in early 1991, 3 experimental liveries and all variations from the early 1990's to the 2000's (including the -400M and the Asie livery).

[Nilsfr91]

The 747-400 fleet is done!
17 variations of the AF 747-400 from the early liveries of the early 90's, the few 'experimental' liveries, the -400M's, the Air France Asie livery and regular AF livery + AF Asie tail, the Soccer World Cup 1998 stickers, the regular 'Groupe Air France' liveries and the 'Air France-KLM' + 'Crevette' logo ones.



Those 747's as well as the 777's, A340's and A330's are now all in the Air France folder on my Google Drive.
Next up are the AF 747-100, -200, -200SUD and -300.

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And now here are the AF 747-200, -200SUD and -300!
I've added to the 747-200's pack the first eurowhite livery with metallic engines circa late 70's-late 80's, and then several variations from the early 90's to the early 2000's.
And even though the -200SUD and -300 had no visual differences (+AF weirdly put "Boeing 747-300" titles on the 2 ex-UTA's -200SUD), for both the 90's and the 2000's there's a livery representing one of the 2 SUD's and one of the 2 -300's, + some near end of service variations circa 2006.

Here are the thumbnails:





Next up will be the 747-100's.

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Here we go with the 747-100, included in the pack are 12 variations starting in 1977 up to the last AF 747-100 to fly in mid 2000.

Here's the thumbnail:



Next I'll do some Air France 737's (-200, -300 and -300QC, -500)

[Nilsfr91]

The first part of the Air France 737 family is here with the -500 variant.
Air France operated a fleet of 30 737-500 starting in 1991 with the joint-operation of 3 Euralair planes in full AF colors (in the first eurowhite scheme), and ending in mid/late 2007 with only 4 -500's left.

The pack includes 11 variations, including the 737's wearing the Euralair titles, the first AF eurowhite scheme with 'Groupe Air France' titles, the ex-Euralair 737's still in the early 90's AF colors, the only ex-Euralair -500 to have kept the old 'Crevette' AF logo through the mid 90's, F-GHUL with a slight difference in the tail logo circa 1992-1998, a World Cup France 1998 logojet and multiple variations of the 90's-2000's AF livery going from the early 90's to late 2007.

Here's the thumbnail:



Coming next will be the 737-300/-300QC's

[Nilsfr91]

Just before I really start on the Air France 737-300's, I've decided to paint some 737-300QC of L'Aeropostale operated by Air France in hybrid AFR/ARP colors, but I ended up painting regular L'Aeropostale 737's too to consolidate the fleet given that ARP was mostly owned by AF (and the french public mail service 'La Poste') operating cargo flights by night to carry mail (named 'La Postale de Nuit' in France) and operated passenger flights during the day for Air France, Air Inter, Air Charter or even sometimes Corsair.

Liveries variations goes from the first ARP 737-300QC circa 1991 to the moment when AF sold their shares in the airline which was then renamed Europe Airpost (the 'new' airline kept the basic ARP livery until 2005-2006 until it introduced it's yellow-ish livery).

Here's the thumbnail:

[Nilsfr91]

Annnd here's the regular AF 737-300 fleet.
Air France operated a small fleet of 9 737-300, 5 of them inherited from UTA's subsidiary Aéromaritime in 1991/1992, one from Air Guadeloupe in 1992 and 3 other taken up in 1998. Most of the -300's left the fleet in the early 2000's, with the last one leaving in late 2004.

Here's the thumbnail:

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Annnnnd finally here are the AF 737-200/-200adv!
There's 14 variations in this pack, going from the 2 737-200 leased from Western Airlines in the 70's until 1980 to fly the regional Caribbean AF routes, to the regular -200adv from the 80's then 90's, with some special liveries including one wearing the logos of Air Guyane/Air Guadeloupe/Air Martinique, one the silver cheatline 'test' livery (circa 1991-1992) and one wearing the logo of the candidate city, Paris, for the 1992 Olympics, to finally the last 737-200adv to fly for Air France in early 2002.

Here's the thumbnail:

[noob21]

Any intention of AFR A300s? I might be wrong but to this day I can’t seem to find any TFS A300 paints for the A300 in the old 70s AFR livery.

[Nilsfr91]

Dec 5, 2021 17:56:39 GMT -5 noob21 said:

Any intention of AFR A300s? I might be wrong but to this day I can’t seem to find any TFS A300 paints for the A300 in the old 70s AFR livery.

Probably yes! First I'll paint some 707's in the old 60's-70's scheme and also the few who got painted in the first eurowhite scheme, then maybe some 727's, but I was already thinking about the lack of AF A300 in the old colors so you can expect them pretty soon.

[noob21]

Dec 5, 2021 18:14:21 GMT -5 Nilsfr91 said:

Dec 5, 2021 17:56:39 GMT -5 noob21 said:

Any intention of AFR A300s? I might be wrong but to this day I can’t seem to find any TFS A300 paints for the A300 in the old 70s AFR livery.

Probably yes! First I'll paint some 707's in the old 60's-70's scheme and also the few who got painted in the first eurowhite scheme, then maybe some 727's, but I was already thinking about the lack of AF A300 in the old colors so you can expect them pretty soon.

Good to hear, fully fleshing out AFR would be quite nice.

[Nilsfr91]

Here goes the Air France 707's, painted on the NAAI model.
Since the -300A isn't modeled, I used the -300B to paint the first variation representing the early AF 707's. Variations representing the -300B, -300C, -300C 'Pélican', -300C Cargo in the 60's colors and also in the late 70's colors are available in this pack.

Here's the thumbnail: