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Air France goes retro for 75th anniversary

Barbara Cockburn
 on November 20, 2008 9:55 AM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0) |

 

air france retro.jpgAir France has become the latest carrier to repaint one of its aircraft in a retro livery, decorating this Airbus A320 to commemorate the airline's 75th anniversary.

This particular A320 is a 19-year old aircraft, F-GFKJ, and is pictured at Toulouse Blagnac Airport.

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In the archives: This is how Flight recorded the birth of Air France...

Related retro content:

In May Flight reported in video and pictures that a Finnair A319 had been painted in a retro Finnish Airlines livery.

And Monarch Airlines celebrated its 40th anniversary in April with a celebratory flight from Luton to Menorca with six Monarch Cabin Crew dressed in the original 1968 uniform. 

For pictures on new liveries take a look at our gallery on AirSpace.

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2 Comments

Neil Higgins

I have been unable to find the aircraft order books for airbus and boeing by aircraft type ... can you guide me to a source please ?

thanks , Neil

Your blog is actually nice to read and i wishing there was more like this around. Thank you

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