'Painted Skies News' - special aircraft liveries - Mar 13

by Devesh Agarwal

This fortnight's edition of news on special liveries from Karsten Heiligtag. *cs = colour scheme

A320-214     4083     A9C-AD     Gulf Air
at DXB 08/02/13 in special cs now with "2013 Formular 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix" titles, ex "2012 Formular 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix"
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Gulf-Air/Airbus-A320-214/2230244/L/&sid=f2c9586395112746123c9cd54e781f18

A340-642     933     A6-EHJ     Etihad Airways (special "F1 Formula 1" cs)
seen at MEL 30/01/13 now with "Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2013" cs, ex "Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012" titles (was still seen as such at MAN 22/01/13)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Etihad-Airways/Airbus-A340-642X/2223746/L/&sid=670708f2dac910de638faec268faec24

B737-4K5(F)     24128 / 1715     S5-ABV     MNG Cargo Airlines / Solinair   
lst/opf Airstream Cargo (Nigeria) since 12/2012, seen at LOS 12/02/13 in full Airstream Cargo cs, ex full MNG Cargo cs
http://aviapix.ch/pics/FaAv/238/IMG_0809.jpg

B777-222(ER)     30222 / 317     N218UA     United Airlines (STAR ALLIANCE cs)   
in service since 04/02/13 now with the latest United titles/logo, last service with the old United titles/logo 22/01/13
http://airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-UnitedStates/United-Airlines/i-bcPvB4s/0/L/United%20777-200%20N218UA%20%2803-Star%20Alliance%29%28Grd%29%20SFO%20%28MDB%29%2846%29-L.jpg

B777-346(ER)     32433 / 527     JA734J     Japan Airlines
in service since 23/02/13 now in the latest cs & with additional "SKY ECO" / "2011-2020 United Nations Decade on Biodiversity" decals after paint
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Japan-Airlines--/Boeing-777-346-ER/2230831/L/&sid=97910dc0d1c3f6adb46bf444bc4c664f

DHC-8-402Q     4016     D-ADHQ     Augsburg Airways   
ferried 25/02/13 MUC-IGS for paint, ferried 01/03/13 IGS-MUC after paint into STAR ALLIANCE cs, ferried 03/03/13 MUC-EXT prior operations for Swiss from 01/04/13

A319-111     2578     G-EZIW     EasyJet
ferried 10/03/13 SEN-LGW after paint into special "Linate - Fiumicino   Per Tutti" cs on rear fuselage
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7570380

A319-132     3069     XA-VOE     Volaris
seen at MEX 17/02/13 in special "JOSE CUERVO EXPRESS" cs
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=7566038&nseq=1526

A320-214     607     EY-631     Asian Express Airline      
seen parked at THR 03/03/13 in full cs, reportedly for Qeshm Airlines
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Asian-Express-Airlines/Airbus-A320-214/2235484/L/&sid=9f1ade2f17e932481b56482694af7a1e

A320-214     4680     G-EZUG     EasyJet
at LPL 09/03/13 with additional special "Moscow" titles on rear fuselage
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1394975/

B717-2BD     55043 / 5131     N891AT     AirTran Airways (special "Atlanta Falcons" cs)
reportedly was painted back into full standard AirTran cs early 02/2013

B717-231     55073 / 5028     N932AT     AirTran Airways (special "Milwaukee Brewers" cs)
will reportedly be painted back into full standard AirTran cs very soon (or maybe is already in process of being repainted)

B737-446     29864 / 3111     JA8999     Japan Transocean Air 
at KIX 08/03/13 in special *SWAL Southwest Air Lines 1967 - 1993 retro cs*, ex JAL Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3TzsyPjzwE

B737-85P(WL)     28382 / 256     ZS-ZWR     Kulula
seen at JNB 12/03/13 with special "Europcar" fuselage cs & new Kulula tail cs, ex only "kulula" tail titles on white cs
http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=nav2&picid=8261

B737-8JP(WL)     39021 / 4371     LN-NGJ     Norwegian Air Shuttle
delivered 05-06/03/13 BFI-OSL with white tail cs, entered service 08/03/13 OSL-SXF, now with "John Bauer Swedish artist" tail cs
http://forum.flyprat.no/attachment.php?attachmentid=33997&d=1362810046

B777-381(ER)     32649 / 557     JA734A     All Nippon Airways
seen at FRA 03/03/13 with special "TOKYO 2020" titles
http://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/273442/ja734a-ana-all-nippon-airways-boeing-777-300er/

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