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Richard Bach, writer and pilot
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

#12/2 • March 2026

№ 11

№ 12/1

A couple of past issues

For many years I have been drawing only civilian aircraft. I did not choose this direction of my creativity by chance. Civil aviation is the least represented topic among aviation artists.

My mission is to provide civil aviation pilots around the world with the opportunity to preserve the memory of the most important steps in their flying career, to remember every plane they flew and pass this memory on to descendants.

I am one of those who looks at the sky.

Boeing 737-200 Nolinor

Registration: C-GNLN
Type: 737-2B6C A
Engines: 2 × PW JT8D-15A(HK3)
Serial Number: 23050
First flight: Jun 15, 1983

Les Investissements Nolinor Inc., trading as Nolinor Aviation, is a charter airline based in Mirabel, a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It operates passenger charter and cargo services within Canada and to the U.S. Its main base is Montréal-Mirabel International Airport. The airline was established in 1992 and started operations in 1997. It began operations mainly to service hunting and fishing outfitters in the Schefferville area, then provided charter services for passengers and freight. In 2007, Nolinor Aviation acquired two ex-Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737−200 combis (freight/passenger).

Fragments

All the drawings on this site are made by me from the beginning (creating an airplane template) to the final product — the design of the finished drawing into a full-fledged artwork. Unlike the technical drawing, our posters, in addition to the profile of the aircraft, include a photo collage unique for each poster, logically related to the depicted aircraft. We were the first to use such a combination in the world, offering also, along with the design background, two more background options — a Dark theme and a Plain one — for aesthetes and collectors.

Airliners Gallery

The main character of the posters is an airliner.
The planes I drew are on the next page.

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All logos and trademarks on and around the image of an aircraft belong to their respective owners.

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One Became Two

Starting from this issue, I decided to split the virtual newspaper "Aviaposter News" into two independent parts. One will contain only information about posters, while the second will cover all other topics. Since content for articles accumulates at different rates, each part will be published as it fills up.

New additions to our project are always a new story, a new discovery, and a new acquaintance. Even updated posters carry a new design and a fresh reading of history. The posters that appeared in our catalog over the past two weeks were no exception, and the first of them is "Lani".

Lani

There are three of them — three enormous Airbus A380 aircraft belonging to Japan's flagship carrier, All Nippon Airways. All of them wear a highly original and unconventional livery for ANA. A sea turtle and two of her babies are painted across the entire fuselage. And considering the size of the "Superjumbo", it is clear that this is the largest turtle in the world!

But for now there is only one poster, dedicated, as I mentioned above, to the first of the three aircraft, bearing the beautiful Hawaiian name "Lani", which translates from Hawaiian as "Sky". Yes, Hawaiian! How did Japan's flagship carrier's aircraft end up with a Hawaiian name? It turned out that all three aircraft operate on just one route, connecting Japan with the Hawaiian Islands.

When orders come in for the remaining two aircraft, I will draw them as well and will certainly write about it on my blog.

"Little Green Men" in the Sky

This is the first poster in our collection featuring the most memorable and original livery of Russian airline S7 Airlines. Twenty years ago, these aircraft immediately stood out against the backdrop of the traditional white-and-blue jets. The use of complementary colors — green, red, and pure white in perfectly balanced proportions — commanded attention for a long time.

This concept was introduced in 2005–2006 as part of a large-scale rebranding of Siberia Airlines. The author of the classic livery featuring human silhouettes is the legendary British branding agency Landor Associates. The list of airlines for which they have created an unforgettable image is impressive — from global giants to national carriers: British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Etihad Airways, Cathay Pacific, Saudia, Royal Jordanian, Thai Airways, and many others. One could talk about their work for a long time, and there simply isn't enough space in a news issue to do it justice. I will tell you more about this on my blog soon.

A Classic from Brazil's Budget Carrier

Twenty-six years ago, airline GOL had just one Boeing 737-700, and ten days after its first flight, four more arrived. Its rapid expansion led to the carrier facing a shortage of aircraft that were needed immediately. Leasing companies could not provide the required number of jets of the necessary model in such a short timeframe. An unusual solution was found: older classic-series Boeing 737-300s were brought into the fleet. There were fifteen of them in total; they served the company for six years and helped bridge the aircraft deficit until more modern planes arrived. One of them is featured on our new poster.

Remembering Past Works

What you see here is neither a new release nor an update — it is simply an old poster. I no longer remember when it was drawn, but it was last updated in 2022. That year, our website had just migrated to a new platform and had only a couple of pages, with the rest still in development. That same year we introduced the new "Dark Theme" option. There were still many open questions about how to implement this version of the posters: how saturated the background should be, how logos would look in inversion, and how to optimize the creation process. I will tell the full story in more detail someday.

Today I am revisiting the poster of the former African low-cost carrier Kulula. By some irony, the airline ceased operations right around the time I was working on its update. It was my first work within the Aviaposter project to represent the African continent.

News from the Art Workshop

Boeing 737-300 GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes

Registration: PR-GLQ
Type: 737-322
Engines: 2 × CFMI CFM56-3C1
Serial Number: 24247
First flight: Oct 27, 1988

GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A is a Brazilian low cost airline based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Its main hubs are São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport, Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport and Tancredo Neves International Airport near Belo Horizonte. The airline was established in 2000 as GOL Transportes Aéreos S.A. and started operations on 15 January 2001 with a flight from Brasília to São Paulo. It is a subsidiary of the Brazilian conglomerate Grupo Áurea, based in Minas Gerais state. The company's name is a Brazilian Portuguese word borrowing from the English word "goal" from association football. The company slogan is Nova GOL. Airline used the Boeing 737-300 as the base of its fleet from 2004, operating 15 units until 2010.

Boeing 737-500 S7 Airlines

Registration: VP-BTF
Type: 737-522
Engines: 2 × CFMI CFM56-3C1
Serial Number: 25009
First flight: Feb 6, 1991

S7 Airlines, legal name JSC Siberia Airlines, is an airline headquartered in Ob, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, with offices in Moscow. It Russia's large domestic airline, with its main bases at Domodedovo International Airport and Tolmachevo Airport. The airline was founded in 1957 as the "Tolmachevo united squadron", and in 1992 it was renamed as "Siberia". In the same year, IATA assigned it the S7 code, which later became the airline's brand. Since 2006, the Boeing 737-500 has been part of the airline's fleet. These "Classic" series aircraft were used to modernize the fleet. These were among the first aircraft to receive the distinctive bright green airline logo, introduced in 2006. In 2009 it was decommissioned and replaced by more modern narrow-body aircraft.

Airbus A380 All Nippon Airways

Registration: JA381A
Named: Lani
Type: A380-841
Engines: 4 × RR Trent 970-84
Serial Number: 262
First flight: Sep 17, 2018

All Nippon Airways is a Japanese airline headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. ANA operates services to both domestic and international destinations and is Japan's largest airline. ANA's earliest ancestor was Japan Helicopter and Aeroplane Transports Company, an airline company founded on 27 December 1952. In December 1957 Nippon Helicopter changed its name to All Nippon Airways Company. The airline joined as a Star Alliance member in October 1999. All Nippon Airways operates three Airbus A380s, each featuring a unique "Flying Honu" (Hawaiian green sea turtle) livery, introduced between 2019 and 2020 specifically for the Tokyo-Honolulu route. The JA381A was the first of three SuperJumbo aircraft delivered. It is named "Lani" (Sky) and is colored blue.

Boeing 737-800 Kulula.com

Registration: ZS-ZWE
Type: 737-8LD
Engines: 2 × CFMI CFM56-7BE
Serial Number: 40854
First flight: Jul 24, 2015

Kulula.com commonly referred to as Kulula is a South African low-cost airline, operating on major domestic routes from O. R. Tambo International Airport and Lanseria International Airport, both serving the city of Johannesburg. The airline's headquarters are located at Bonaero Park, Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. The name 'Kulula' comes from the Nguni languages of Zulu and Xhosa, meaning It's easy. Kulula was established in July 2001 and commenced operations as South Africa's first 'no-frills' carrier in August of that year.

1. The British Jumbo

British Airways was once the world’s largest operator of the Boeing 747−400, with a fleet of 57 aircraft. The "Queen of the Skies" served as the backbone of the airline’s long-haul operations for over 30 years. But the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 forced the airline to retire its entire Jumbo fleet. The aircraft featured on our poster, G-CIVG, had already left the British fleet as part of a planned fleet renewal back in 2019 — four months before the mass retirement.

This poster first appeared on our website back in 2017. The current update marks its revival after nearly four years of absence.

2. Sky Express — Russia’s First Low-Cost Carrier

The first fully-fledged low-cost carrier in Russia was Sky Express, founded in 2006. Its inaugural flight on the Moscow-Sochi route was operated by a Boeing 737−300 registered VP-BBN — yes, the very same aircraft depicted on our poster.

Interestingly, the original order that came in was for a poster of this airline, but with the registration N527AD. That’s the same aircraft, but before it received its permanent Russian registration — N527AD being the seller’s temporary registration. I completed the order and sent the drawing as requested, but decided to add the aircraft to the catalogue under its VP-BBN number. Incidentally, it wasn’t just the tail number that needed changing — all the technical stickers and markings had to be updated too, as they differed significantly from the original version.

The version with the American registration is still in my files, so feel free to get in touch if you’d like this rare variant. N527AD is of particular interest to scale modellers, as a model of this aircraft was produced by the modelling industry. The main reason for the popularity of this registration is the Eastern Express 1:144 scale kit, whose decal sheet maker chose to include markings with the US registration. This version gained even wider circulation in the collector community thanks to JC Wings, which released a highly detailed 1:200 scale model specifically under the N527AD registration.

3. Helios Airways — Not the Luckiest Start-Up from Cyprus

I should say upfront — this is not the aircraft that became tragically famous! Our poster is dedicated to the very first aircraft in the Helios Airways fleet, which flew with the company for about a year before moving on. For someone, this particular aircraft was something special — special enough to order a poster of it as a keepsake. Was it the aircraft on which they took their first flight as a pilot? Or perhaps the one on which they first took to the skies as a passenger? Who among us doesn’t remember their first encounter with the sky? Either way, these are warm memories — and I help preserve them for years to come.

4 & 5. One Aircraft, Two Lives

These two posters are inseparable, because they depict the same aircraft — just at different points in its life.

From its very first days, it flew in the livery of German cargo carrier Lufthansa Cargo. In those years it was beloved by spotters and aviation enthusiasts alike, and its registration D-ALCN was known by heart. Whenever the aircraft came into view of those in the know, there was a stir in the crowd — enormous lenses swung skyward, and an excited "It's him!" swept through the gathering. And no wonder, for this aircraft was the last MD-11 ever built, marking the end of an era of legendary giants. In 2018, it took its place on one of our posters.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, Lufthansa began hastily disposing of its ageing MD-11 fleet. D-ALCN passed to American carrier UPS and in April of that year received its current registration, N262UP. By the end of the same year, a new poster appeared showing the MD-11 in its new guise.

Following a tragic incident last year, UPS retired its entire MD-11 fleet, including the 262nd. Whether it will ever fly again remains to be seen. In the meantime, we have preserved it for lasting memory in our posters, which I recently updated.

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Poster Additions

Seven years ago, I drew a poster featuring the CRJ550 of the American regional airline GoJet in its new United Express livery for the first time. For a while, it became the best-selling poster. We sold twenty copies in just the first day! But time flies, and it feels like it was only yesterday. Gradually the excitement died down, and the time came to refresh the poster.

In the previous version, the aircraft stood against the backdrop of the famous Gateway Arch, located in St. Louis, Missouri. Over time, sales experience showed that posters featuring landmarks have a limited audience — precisely because of their tight connection to a specific place. That's why all new posters feature a neutral yet unique background. This doesn't mean that scenic locations will disappear from posters forever. I've kept the St. Louis backdrop. It will be polished up and added to a library of landmark backgrounds that I'm putting together. Slipped up? Well, let's consider it a teaser.

Now let me tell you about the second poster that joined the world aviation fleet of our Aviaposter project. As I wrote in the preview on the first page, it features an airline not currently in our catalog. I used that phrasing deliberately, because one Air Transat poster did exist within our project — but it's currently set aside for an update, and it will be a special edition. But that's a different story. Today I'm presenting the Air Transat poster with the brand-new Airbus A321NX. Its livery, flowing from deep blue to light blue and back again, seems to mirror the colors of the sky across different latitudes — from north to south — where the popular destinations lie.

The next two posters managed to "jump" into the news feed at the very last moment.

Say hello to the African giant — the Airbus A340-600 of South African Airways. We already have one A340 from this airline, but this time it's the -600 variant on display. Every time I have to draw the six-hundred, its length makes me want to change the poster proportions, widening it from 900 to 1200 mm. It really is an enormously long aircraft! Unfortunately — or fortunately — the lab's technical capabilities don't allow for that without a loss in print quality. In the meantime, the printed poster has already set off on its journey across the ocean to the United States.

And finally, the fourth and last poster. It is the updated McDonnell Douglas MD-11F of FedEx Express — the patriarch of express delivery. I placed the livery of aircraft N596FE onto the updated model template, where I swapped out the set of highlights and refined a number of details. Then I drew a new landscape and sky. The result is an entirely new poster, which wrapped up the January work.

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