Aircraft livery
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Aircraft livery is a paint scheme applied to an aircraft, generally to fuselage, wings, tailfin or jet engines.
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[edit] Types of aircraft livery
[edit] Heritage or retrojet
- See also: Heritage aircraft
Heritage or retrojet livery is a livery that an airline has used in the past (apart from any modern livery used by an airline). Aircraft in a heritage or retrojet livery is called heritage aircraft.
[edit] Cheatline
A cheatline is decorative, horizontal, single or multiple, bands of color applied to both sides of a fuselage.
[edit] Commemorative
Commemorative liveries are one off paint schemes applied by airlines to celebrate a milestone in their history. One such example would be ATA Airlines 25th anniversary paint scheme, celebrating the airline's inception under George Mikelson, the founder of American Trans Air[1], or SkyWest paint scheme used to commemorate 30th anniversary of that airline.
[edit] Eurowhite
Eurowhite is a livery that uses paint schemes which are predominantly white.
[edit] Jelly Bean
A "Jelly Bean" livery is a color scheme in which an airlines corporate logo and image is displayed in multiple colors or hues upon its aircraft. Among the most notable "Jelly Bean" type liveries used among North America airlines would be that used by Braniff International Airlines, although other airlines such as Air Canada's Jazz & Zip and Vanguard Airlines, have used this concept. A slight variant of the "Jelly Bean" concept is the Jelly Tails of JetBlue Airways, Mexicana, and Frontier Airlines. These liveries are characterized by the the vertical stabilizer and sometimes aft fuselage being painted in multiple designs as is the case with British Airway's short lived Newell and Sorrell World Tails design.
[edit] Logo
Airlines can paint airplanes in special liveries, examples being:
- the logo of a sports team
- images of a city, usually a hub or other city of importance to the airline
- advertising for a company (logojet)
[edit] Military
Military air force generally paint non-combat aircraft in a national livery, however combat aircraft are normally camouflaged.
[edit] Government
The US President's aircraft uses a light-blue and sky-blue color scheme, with the Seal of the President of the United States just above front gear and the flag of the United States on the tailfin.
An aircraft used to transport state or government leaders is often painted in a livery that represents national colors of a country or colors of a particular government office, and most of the time is coordinated with flag, seal and other insignia.
