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Historical paint schemes are adapted to one standardized aircraft. Reference photographs establish the paint, emblem and lettering; they do not identify the game aircraft’s model. Registration markings and anniversary decals are omitted.
Boeing 727-235, Pan Am JP52493.jpg — Pedro Aragão · CC BY-SA 3.0
TWA Boeing 727-100.jpg — Roland Arhelger · CC BY-SA 4.0
Eastern Air Lines N819EA, Las Vegas - Harry Reid International, October 1982.jpg — Leslie Snelleman · CC BY-SA 4.0
MIAMI MARCH 1995 NORTHWEST AIRLINES AIRBUS A320 N326US (47902325181).jpg — simon butler from halesowen, uk · CC BY 2.0
Boeing 737-291-Adv, Continental Airlines AN0472956.jpg — Guido Allieri - Italy · GFDL
Boeing 727-227(Adv), Braniff International Airways JP5938770.jpg — Jon Proctor · GFDL 1.2
MIAMI MARCH 2000 U.S. AIRWAYS BOEING 737-400 N406US (8737389611).jpg — simon butler from halesowen, uk · CC BY 2.0
N174AW Boeing 737 America West (8401797872).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boeing 727-214, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) JP5964380.jpg — Jon Proctor · GFDL 1.2
Western Airlines Boeing 737-200 N4520W Marmet.jpg — Eduard Marmet · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boeing 727-235, National Airlines AN0987417.jpg — Peter Duijnmayer · GFDL 1.2
British Airways (BOAC Retro Livery), G-BYGC, Boeing 747-436 (49597386297).jpg — Anna Zvereva from Tallinn, Estonia · CC BY-SA 2.0
G-EUPJ(BEA-Retro)A319-131.jpg — JCSigma2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, British Caledonian Airways AN1116908.jpg — Tim Rees · GFDL 1.2
Dan-Air London Boeing 737-200 Marmet.jpg — Eduard Marmet · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boeing 737-2T7(Adv), Monarch Airlines JP6105203.jpg — Pedro Aragão · CC BY-SA 3.0
Swissair Airbus A320-214; HB-IJD@ZRH;12.11.1995 (5216868533).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sabena Boeing 737-200; OO-SDM@FRA;27.12.1995 (6172565896).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Boeing 737-229C/Adv OO-SDR — full Sabena fuselage — JetPix / Torsten Maiwald collection · GFDL 1.2 only
Malev Boeing 737 HA-LOP Budapest 2006 (01).jpg — Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0
SX-BKA B737-484 Olympic Aws ZRH 31AUG98 (6310841104).jpg — Ken Fielding · CC BY-SA 3.0
95bg - Alitalia Airbus A320-214; I-BIKO@LHR;01.06.2000 (8190736264).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
D-ABFU Airbus A320 Air Berlin (7303063690).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
Air Inter Airbus A320 Gilliand.jpg — Michel Gilliand · GFDL 1.2
C-FNVV A320-211 Canadian Al YYZ 23AUG00 (5828372594).jpg — Ken Fielding · CC BY-SA 3.0
67cf - Ansett Australia Boeing 737-300; VH-CZJ@SYD;15.08.1999 (8232572080).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
VARIG Boeing 737-200; PP-VME, June 2003 (5683075640).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
PP-SPH Boeing 737 VASP (7321287038).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
VT-JAM Boeing 737 Jet Airways (8448378970).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kingfisher Airlines Airbus A320-200.jpg — marirs · CC BY-SA 2.0
Kingfisher Airlines tail.JPG — Prateek Karandikar · CC BY-SA 4.0
Air Afrique Airbus A300 Gilliand.jpg — Michel Gilliand · GFDL 1.2
N963AN Boeing 737 American Airlines (7630381328).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
American Airlines Astrojet N951AA.jpg — Nandhp · CC BY-SA 3.0
N475UA A320-232 United (retro) YVR 24JUL11 (5972478420).jpg — Ken Fielding · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boeing 727-22, United Airlines JP5955736.jpg — Jon Proctor · GFDL 1.2
8cd - United Airlines Boeing 737-500; N948UA@MIA;24.01.1998 (4693822036).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Delta Shuttle 727-200 N553PE at LGA (22235331105).jpg — G B_NZ · CC BY-SA 2.0
N3760C Boeing 737 Delta (8401800640).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
Delta Flight Museum — logo chronology — Delta Flight Museum · Copyrighted historical reference
Classic Colors Southwest Airlines N648SW Boeing 737-3H4 SJC.jpg — Dylan Ashe from San Jose, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
N949WN Southwest Airlines 2010 Boeing 737-7H4 - cn 36663 - 3358 (35273372832).jpg — Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
British Airways (Negus Retro Livery), G-CIVB, Boeing 747-436.jpg — Anna Zvereva · CC BY-SA 2.0
British Airways (Landor livery) Boeing 747-436 G-BNLY (City of Swansea) departing JFK Airport.jpg — Adam Moreira (AEMoreira042281) · CC BY-SA 4.0
British Airways Landor livery — colour and identity history — Heritage Concorde
Qantas (VH-VXQ) Boeing 737-838(WL) "Retro Roo II" taxiing at Sydney Airport (2).jpg — Bidgee · CC BY-SA 3.0 au
Qantas Boeing 737 VH-XZP Perth 2023 (01).jpg — Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0
Air Canada McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 C-FTLQ at Toronto Pearson International Airport, 17 October 1980.jpg — Stuart Jessup · CC BY-SA 2.0
C-FTJQ A320-211 Air Canada FLL 27APR00 (5827822991).jpg — Ken Fielding · CC BY-SA 3.0
D-AIDV Airbus A321 Lufthansa in Retro Colours (8633507057).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
F-GFKJ Airbus A320 Air France in retro C-s (7302354130).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
KLM DC-8 (7141224105).jpg — clipperarctic · CC BY-SA 2.0
SAS A319 OY-KBO (Retro Scheme) (6191144919) (2).jpg — RHL Images from England · CC BY-SA 2.0
EI-DVM A320 Aer Lingus SCQ.jpg — Bene Riobó · CC BY-SA 4.0
Iberia Airbus A320-214 EC-ILQ.jpg — Gerry Stegmeier · GFDL 1.2
TAP Air Portugal Airbus A330-300 CS-TOV (39888690774).jpg — BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0
OE-LBP Airbus A320 Austrian Airlines in Retro Colours (8137991069).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
Finnair Boeing 757-2Q8; OH-LBT@PDL;11.07.2011 606ag (5939943252).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Finnair Annual Report 2000 — original cover emblem and wordmark — Finnair Oyj · Copyrighted brand artwork
Cathay Pacific Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 at Kai Tak Airport.jpg — Richard Vandervord · CC BY-SA 4.0
17di - JAL Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400; JA8078@ZRH;30.03.1998 (8063506038).jpg — Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Japan Airlines Boeing 767-200 JA8232 tsurumaru.jpg — contri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan · CC BY-SA 2.0
Air New Zealand Airbus A320-200 ZK-OJC Melbourne.jpg — Jeffrey from Christchurch, New Zealand · CC BY-SA 2.0
ANA JA602A B767-381 mohican-revival.jpg — Comyu (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0
PK-GFN Boeing 737 Garuda Indonesia in Retro C-s (7919849058).jpg — Aeroprints.com · CC BY-SA 3.0
9M-MXA (26430136269).jpg — Alec Wilson from Khon Kaen, Thailand · CC BY-SA 2.0
These sources include artwork being prepared for the collection. Brand marks remain associated with their respective airlines. Each source page provides its attribution and usage information.
Maarten Visser from Capelle aan den IJssel, Nederland
Vector contours of the source artwork; palette normalized and photographic background excluded. Crop and thresholds retained in the research script.
Piergiuliano Chesi
Public domain
Vector contours of the source artwork; palette normalized and photographic background excluded. Crop and thresholds retained in the research script.
Fair use
Removed the separate corporate wordmark, retaining the native tail emblem.
Michel Gilliand
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
ויקיפדיה באנגלית
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Aeroprints.com
White aircraft-specific capsule and letter cutout traced from the selected A320 photograph, perspective mapped to the shared fin. Corporate logo inversion is not used.
Stuart Jessup
white colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Stuart Jessup
white colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained. Leaf retained within the roundel; compression-damaged perimeter replaced with a clean circular stroke and the lower stem restored.
Ken Fielding
red colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Ken Fielding
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Aeroprints.com
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Michel Gilliand
redblue colour separation and vector contours; palette normalized, source orientation retained.
Air New Zealand
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Jeffrey from Christchurch, New Zealand
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette. Red inset restored inside the A; crop-edge stripe excluded.
America West Airlines
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Aeroprints.com
Layered teal fin bands redrawn as clean low-contrast boundaries behind the native AW emblem. No photographic posterization or panel highlights retained.
America West Airlines
Public domain
Native lettering recoloured red with a thin dark teal outline as shown on N174AW; emblem and AIRLINES text excluded by viewBox.
Fair use
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Bezier contour reconstruction from the 2048px 1962 emblem reproduction; transparent background removed. Original thick-pole red ring, complete eagle, paired A letters and AMERICAN wording preserved; checked against N951AA tail photograph.
Fair use
Isolated the native A/star emblem from the corporate artwork.
Fair use
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Nicky Kelvin / The Points Guy (source photograph); British Airways (emblem)
No reuse licence specified by source
Clean Bezier reconstruction of the unobstructed G-BNLY crest close-up, crop [725,169,976,419] on 1400px image. Preserves winged horse, winged lion, sun/crown, helmet, quarter-flag shield and motto ribbon. Paint panel seam and photo background excluded. Photographer Nicky Kelvin / The Points Guy; no reuse licence asserted.
Adam Moreira (AEMoreira042281)
dark colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Anna Zvereva
dark colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Mliu92
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Jon Proctor
gold colour separation and vector contours; palette normalized, source orientation retained.
Tim Rees
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Imperial Airways / BOAC / Theyre Lee-Elliott (died in 1988, see Commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:British Overseas Airways Corporation (logo).svg)
PD
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Fair use
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Ken Fielding
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Richard Vandervord
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Smooth ellipse and five sweeping negative-space bands reconstructed with cubic Bezier curves, compared with the red Jetstream reproduction on PDF page 42 and selected Continental aircraft. No low-resolution stair-step contours.
Guido Allieri - Italy
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Cropped the native compass and recoloured its coloured flag segments dark blue to match the selected period aircraft roundel.
Delta Air Lines
Public domain (text logo)
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Aeroprints.com
Red, blue and pale-blue swept fields reconstructed as smooth cubic Bezier boundaries with restrained paint gradients. Photographic leading-edge glare, panel seams and mottled pixel patches excluded. Adapted to shared fin geometry.
User:Jj98
Public domain
Native corporate lettering given the white outline and dark-blue fill shown on the selected polished-metal Eastern aircraft.
Finnair Oyj
Copyrighted brand artwork
Native vector paths extracted from the cover of Finnair Annual Report 2000; isolated emblem/title, recoloured for the selected blue-tail aircraft.
Finnair Oyj
Copyrighted brand artwork
Native vector paths extracted from the cover of Finnair Annual Report 2000; isolated emblem/title, recoloured for the selected blue-tail aircraft.
Aeroprints.com
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Aeroprints.com
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A.
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Iberia
No reuse licence specified by source
Native 2010 report emblem including detailed crown, with reduced shear to match port-side EC-IZR tail application; crown remains inside upper red I. Full transformed extent retained without clipping.
Japan Airlines
Public domain
Vector contours of the source artwork; palette normalized and photographic background excluded. Crop and thresholds retained in the research script.
contri from Yonezawa-Shi, Yamagata, Japan
Vector contours from the 4720px original, red separation with photographic grain filtered. Counter-rotated 13 degrees to remove the aircraft climb angle; historical lettering retained.
Fair use
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Aeroprints.com
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Designed by F.H.K. Henrion, in 1961. Modified by Chris Ludlow at Henrion, Ludlow & Schmidt, in 1991.
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Prateek Karandikar
Manual smooth vector reconstruction of the aircraft-specific diving kingfisher, two feathered blue wings, orange chest, white throat, long downward beak, feet and bordered landscape disc. Close-up used for contours and colour relationships; feather and landscape detail simplified at game scale, without photographic grain.
Kingfisher Airlines
Public domain
Removed the black drop-shadow paths to match the aircraft title treatment.
Aeroprints.com
Crane contour from the 3456px original, separating the dark mark from the yellow oval.
Aeroprints.com
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Roundel artwork traced from a clean secondary reproduction and checked against 9M-MXA tribute-aircraft photograph. Red segments rendered white for the fin.
Malev
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Monarch Airlines
PD
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Pedro Aragão
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Fair use
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Ken Fielding
dark colour separation and vector contours; palette normalized, source orientation retained.
Fair use
Added the thin white keyline seen around the painted historical rings. White keyline width corrected in native path coordinates to remain visible after the embedded transform.
Jetijonez
Retained native PSA letter shapes; removed corporate colour bars and deep drop shadow, added thin dark outline to match the selected aircraft title.
Pan Am Systems
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Pan Am Systems
Public domain
Isolated the negative-space native PAN AM wordmark from the original globe vector, rendered at 10x and traced; compared against the N4736 billboard photograph.
Red kangaroo contours from Qantas archive emblem; outer circular border excluded.
Vectorized the airline archive 1968 native wordmark and recoloured red to match the ochre-band retrojet.
Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark-Norway-Sweden
Public domain (text logo), as recorded on Commons
Clean Bezier outlines of the large SAS initials in the 1940s native artwork. Aircraft-specific condensed proportions checked against OY-KBO. Lower corporate-name lines excluded; no modern SAS substitute.
Scandinavian Airlines System Denmark-Norway-Sweden
Public domain (text logo), as recorded on Commons
Period SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM lettering reconstructed as smooth Bezier outlines from the 1940s logo, arranged on one fuselage line. Replaces the noisy small photograph-derived lettering; checked against the OY-KBO reference.
Unknown authorUnknown author
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
The original uploader was Vargklo at English Wikipedia.
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Clean Bezier contours of the 1953 Passarola and extended-bar TAP lettering. Transparent source avoids photographic background fragments. Tail aspect is adapted to the selected retro A330 reference.
BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
Trans World Airlines, Inc. (now American Airlines, Inc.)
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Roland Arhelger
Photographed period lettering isolated with adaptive dark separation; smoothed vector contours and standardized palette.
US Airways
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
UAL Corporation
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Ken Fielding
dark colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Ken Fielding
dark colour separation and vector contours; standardized palette; source orientation retained.
Viação Aérea São Paulo
Public domain
Original vector artwork cropped, scaled and, where documented by the selected aircraft photograph, recoloured for the game illustration.
Viação Aérea São Paulo
Public domain
Native 2001 roundel with white aircraft keylines and green/gold fills matched to the selected aircraft; title excluded by the crop.
Varig
Public domain
Gold Brasil paths isolated from the native vector; blue title excluded; cropped to the lower script in the paint definition.
Varig
Public domain
Recoloured the dark radial rays white for the photographed navy fin, preserving gold star faces.
Varig
Public domain
Blue VARIG paths isolated from the native vector to avoid the overlapping gold Brasil script; cropped to the title.
Eduard Marmet
dark colour separation and vector contours; palette normalized, source orientation retained.
Ken Fielding
Photographed paint fields rectified onto the common fin, normalized to three colours. Lettering and emblem removed before rectification and restored separately in their readable orientation.