Category Aviation Photography

Alaska Airlines has come up with some eye-catching and unique special color schemes, along with their regular colorful livery. Here are a few of them from our photographers’ collections.

Photos by: Corey Beitler, Ken Middleton, Scott Jankowski and Ken Kula

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Airbus is a giant conglomerate of aviation businesses which, over time, were all rolled into one through mergers and purchases. As the company’s website states:

“Airbus is an international reference in the aerospace sector. We design, manufacture and deliver industry-leading commercial aircraft, helicopters, military transports, satellites and launch vehicles, as well as providing data services, navigation, secure communications, urban mobility and other solutions for customers on a global scale. With a forward-looking strategy based on cutting-edge technologies, digital and scientific excellence, we aim for a better-connected, safer and more prosperous world.”

We’ve put together a limited look at Airbus’s history in the commercial airframe market along with multiple military transports w...

Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer which operated in various forms from 1912 through 1996. Anthony Fokker’s company began its life in Germany before World War I, and ended up in The Netherlands, headquartered in Amsterdam before closing in bankruptcy.

Fokker built a series of jet airliners, with their FK-28 Fellowship twinjet being built from 1967 through 1987. The short to medium ranged airliner seated from 65 to 85 passengers, and was built in four major variants, the -1000 and -3000 short fuselage versions and the -2000 and -4000 series versions with a longer fuselage. A pair of -6000 series jets with lengthened fuselages were also produced. The FK-28 series utilized a tail-mounted clamshell-style air brake, assisting with steep approaches and short field landings.