Holmes 767 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Hi All I have been working at the airport in Trinidad since 2001... One of my favorite liveries in the Md80s comes from ALM a Curacao based Airline. Its known as Air ALM / ALM Antillean Airlines Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij. In the mid 90s I grew up seeing this plane pass high over my house early after 6AM heading west whenever it was going Curacao..It was back in 2001 I got close up to this bird while working in the Airport.. sometime 2002-03 the livery changed at it was named Dutch Caribbean Airlines and then DAE I am not sure if they still exist... any way this was a Minicraft Models Md 80 that I did as ALM, The decals was a mixture of FC decal and Flying colors Md 80 detail sheet..The Registration I did was PJ-SEH.. The thing that made me like this livery one it was an Md80 and to the livery was kind of close to BWIA Sunjet livery.. in the sky I use to mistake it for BWIA but only looking at the buttom it didn't have the blue stripe on the rear like BWIA lol... Hope you guys enjoy it!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme H Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Very nice, not a scheme I have seen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes 767 Posted April 1, 2014 Author Share Posted April 1, 2014 Very nice, not a scheme I have seen before. Yes thats because its from Curacao north of Venezuela and the company closed in 2001 they reopened as Dutch Caribbean Ailines which didn't last long either till 2005, the next name was Dutch Antillean Express which ceased operations last year 2013.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Fond memories here. I flew in one of these in the early 80's from Puerto Rico to Sint Maarten. As we were turning onto the runway for the take off, a passenger who had tried, and been denied, entrance to the U.S. jumped up and ran to the front door, trying to open it and jump out. He was quickly subdued, and given a good talking to, and off we went, without any delay. Today, I'm sure we would all have been questioned under some very bright lights. Odd thing though, was that all the announcements explaining what was going were in Spanish, even though it was a Dutch airline flying out of the U.S., so I had to be filled in later, over a couple complimentary beverages. Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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