Aviation Center Australia

After severe economic turbulences, the new Alitalia took off into a new future in January 2009 with a fleet downsized by about a third, and about 2,500 employees less. The original of this model with the new livery is I-BIXR, an A321-100 with the name Piazza Campidolio ROMA.

The N918WN “Illinois One”, registered in April 2008, currently sports the airline’s fifteenth special livery. It promotes the establishment of a new hub at Chicago-Midway airport, the airline’s second biggest hub from where it takes off 227 times a day to 47 destinations.

Continental Airlines of Texas has ordered 23 examples of the Boeing 737-900ER, among them also the original of our model, type 737-924ER with the registration N27241, which was taken on in August 2008 as the first of its kind. The model will be released in Herpa’s revised 737 version, on which among others things, the wings units are laterally mounted.

In 1999, Condor was the launching carrier of the Boeing 757-300, then still flown with Lufthansa code -330. The original of this limited-edition mold novelty is D-ABOH, one of thirteen 757-300s which Herpa premieres in Condor’s current outfit.

Herpa is premiering an Embraer ERJ-145 in the 1/500 scale in British Airways livery. In 1997, the original of this new limited-edition model was commissioned by the former British Regional Airlines with the registration G-EMBC. Soon after, it was transferred to BA CitiExpress, and then also temporarily operated by BA Connect until it was finally added to the fleet of the British low-cost airline Flybe. In October 2007, the Embraer ERJ-145 was taken out of service, and sold to Port One on the Cayman Islands in March 2008.

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As of 1951 on, six of the then ultramodern Douglas DC-6B flew for Swissair. Among them the original of this new limited-edition model with the registration HB-IBZ and the name of the canton “Baselland”. It was launched in 1953, and in 1961 transferred to the subsidiary Balair, from where it was sold to Africa only at the end of the 1970s as the last DC-6 still operated in Europe. The model will be released in the original’s final livery, and with the retroactively extended nose.

Lufthansa Cargo is the direct successor company of the former German Cargo Services, which was founded in 1977 as a freight charter subsidiary of Lufthansa. Five DC-8-73Fs were purchased from the US-owned Flying Tigers and – after a radical reorganization of the Lufthansa organization - added to the fleet of the newly founded Lufthansa Cargo. The original of this new model with the registration D-ADUE was manufactured for Flying Tigers in 1963.

Lufttransportgeschwader 61 of the German air force was established in 1957 and is based in Penzig in the Bavarian district of Landsberg. Its first airplanes were Douglas C-47s and the Nord-Aviation “Noratlas”. In 1971, the C-160D “Transall” was launched. For the squadron’s 50th anniversary, the C-160 was painted with a special livery by the Bavarian designer Walter Maurer, which depicts an intercultural dialogue. It campaigns for integration and speaks out against racism, ignorance and violence.