Hybrid Liveries

Oh yeah, I forgot about this one!!!

No, Sun Country stopped that lease agreement a few years ago. If I remember correctly, they may have bought a few 738s off of Transavia outright, though don’t quote me on that.

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I don’t recall Sun Country ever actually buying 737s from Transavia, though in 2006 Transavia actually bought two 737s from Sun Country. When they first arrived in Amsterdam they had a hybrid livery with Transavia titles slapped onto the Sun Country livery

N743PA, a 747-100 that American Airlines leased from Pan Am from March to October of 1970. Following that, she was named “Clipper Black Sea” and served with PA until the airline’s demise, being converted to a freighter in 1992 and subsequently seeing service with Tower Air, Logistic Air, and THT Air Services. Since 2010, she has been parked at Johor in Malaysia, and will be preserved as part of a hotel development.

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N426TW, an ex-TWA 717-200 photographed in the short-lived hybrid livery following TWA’s acquisition by American Airlines at DFW sometime in 2001. After a very brief stay stateside (less than 2 years with TWA and American combined), 426TW went Down Under and was re-registered as VH-VQG with Qantaslink. After 2 years as a QF girl, VQG went to Qantas’s low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar Airways, where she remained until 2004. That year, she was sold to National Jet Systems and re-registered yet again as VH-NXL. Once again wearing the Qantaslink livery, NXL went to Cobham Aviation until 2020, and named Daintree National Park. Cobham was the first operator to hold onto her for more than two years at a stretch. In 2020, Daintree retured to National Jet Systems and finished out her career with them, being withdrawn from service in December 2023. Since February of this year, she has been stored at Victorville with a number of her sisters, her ultimate fate uncertain but her flying days are likely over for the foreseeable future.

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Dang I gotta cross the crossway to see that

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Speaking of that, GOL had a similar contract (also with Transavia), where they’d lease some of their 737-800s to Transavia in the middle of the year. Due to the MAX grounding, there was a brief period in which GOL was the one receiving the Transavia aircraft as well.


https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8771433


https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/8144359


https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9378842


https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9484114

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When Canadian Airlines and Air Canada merged, several aircraft had the Air Canada livery with Canadian titles, like this 767

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Butter

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Didn’t some ex TWA 757s carry this hybrid livery as well?

Yeah they did. They eventually got the standard AA livery before they were sold off to cut down on the expenses of having 2 different engine types for the same aircraft. Here’s N702TW, back when she was an AA girl. Most of us know her now as the Mariano Rivera of Delta Air Lines, bearing the retired Yankees ballplayer’s signature and jersey number under the cockpit.

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I really liked this one, the BMI/British Airways hybrid livery on an Airbus A321.

Photo by JRC Aviation on Planespotters.net
https://www.planespotters.net/photo/324548/g-medl-british-airways-airbus-a321-231

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We need this when the Max Comes

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I found one of these but on the A350

Image credit: Niclas Karich on Planespotters.net

https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a350-900-b-18918-china-airlines/epwkx7

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