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Five Awesome, Retro-Painted Airplanes

October 13, 2010 at 9:35 AM | by | Comments (3)

Hmm...why does that airplane look different from all the others? If you're lucky, sometime during your travels you'll be saying or thinking that very thing, because you've happened to spot a jet done up in retro livery. Every so often, an airline celebrates a special occasion like an anniversary by giving one of their planes a throwback paintjob, just like British Airways just did this month. Check out five such retro aircraft below.

British Airways' Boeing 757 (above), which celebrates BA's history of using 757s. The last British Airways 757 will be retired on October 30 after flying the skies since 1983. This baby has a seriously limited life. [Photo: BA/Key.aero]

American Airlines's 737 Astrojet retro livery began flying in 2000, commemorating the 50th next gen Boeing 737 to be delivered to AA. This particular Astrojet paintjob was used on 727s in the 1960s. [Photo: Flickr/Djof]

Continental Airlines' Boeing 737-900ER with the retro "Blue Skyway" livery is the one we most want to spot. The look is from way back in the 1940s, and it's been brought back for this one plane to celebrate Continental's 75th anniversary. [Photo: Jeffrey DeVore/Continental]

KLM Royal Dutch celebrated their 90th Anniversary of flight by painting one of their Boeing 737s up in striking blue stripes. It's actually one of their retro liveries, of course, but man does that look good. She's still flying, so keep an eye out! [Photo: Flickr/Kok Vermeulen]

Lufthansa's Airbus A321 is the only Airbus on this list...hmm. In 2005, the airline reached its 50th year of service, and so they turned out this beautiful livery from the 1950s. [Photo: Flickr/hartlandmartin]

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Continential's 737

I saw this retro aircraft at FLL last week! It caught my attention as I was walking to meet an aircraft on C9... LOVE this look!
tvlkidd on October 13, 2010 at 12:24 PM #Permalink

Paint Jobs

The Lufthansa paint job reminds me of a classic tuxedo.
catawba57 on October 13, 2010 at 1:35 PM #Permalink

Continental "Blue Skyway"

I saw this plane in Houston at IAH on 12-5-10. I had just enough time to snap a quick pic while we taxied by to our gate. It was at night and the pic was not as clear as I had hoped, but it is a very nice plane. It was a treat to see it.
thigpenes on January 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM #Permalink

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