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Richard Bach, writer and pilot
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

#17 • August 2026

№ 15/2

№ 16

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.

Airbus A340-600 Iberia

Registration:EC-JNQ
Named: Antonio Machado
Type:A340-642
Engines:4 × RR Trent 556-61
Serial Number: 727
First flight: Nuv 30, 2005

Iberia, legally incorporated as Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España, S.A. Operadora, Sociedad Unipersonal, is the flag carrier of Spain. Founded in 1927 and based in Madrid, it operates an international network of services from its main base of Madrid-Barajas Airport. Iberia Group airlines fly to over 109 destinations in 39 countries, and a further 90 destinations through code-sharing agreements with other airlines. Iberia, Compañía Aérea de Transportes, was incorporated on 28 June 1927. On 1 September 1999, the company joined the Oneworld alliance. Since 2003, Iberia has operated Airbus A340−600 aircraft, which have become the basis of a long-haul fleet for flights to Latin America until 2020.

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.

e-mail:
aleksey@aviaposter.com

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News from the Art Workshop

August Releases

Boeing 747-400BCF Western Global

Registration: N356KD
Type: 747-446BCF
Engines: 4 x GE CF6-80C2B1F
Serial Number: 26 356
First flight: Mar 22, 1994

Following the UPS MD-11 crash in November 2025, Western Global was forced to ground all of its remaining aircraft of that model until the investigation was complete. Boeing 747s were brought back into service to fill the gap. The flight restrictions on the MD-11 have since been lifted, but the airline is bringing them back very cautiously, and most of the fleet remains grounded. As a result, all four cargo "Jumbos" are currently airborne and being actively flown by the airline.

The unexpected return of these four-engine giants to the skies has revived interest in an older poster from our collection. Back in May of this year, I completely reworked a seven-year-old piece of mine to bring it up to modern standards. My bet paid off in full — the new poster has already been delivered to its buyer and is available in the site catalog.

Just as no two takeoffs or landings are ever quite the same for a pilot, working on each poster brings its own emotions and leaves its own memories for me. Let me share some fresh impressions and interesting facts with you.

Today’s roundup of catalog additions features the posters that came out during August. There aren’t that many — just four. The main event of the month was really my second eye surgery. But that’s all behind me now, and I’m getting back into my working rhythm. September is fast approaching — the season when things only get busier.

So, here’s what was published in August.

Bombardier CRJ900 Endeavor Air
operating for Delta Connection

Registration: N833SK
Type: 900LR (CL-600-2D24)
Engines: 2 × GE CF34-8C5
Serial Number: 15456
First flight: Jan 22, 2019

This one seemed pretty familiar at first — just another Delta Connection regional jet, and I've drawn dozens of those by now. But that WiFi satellite antenna caught me off guard. It's probably a new option the airline offers on its regional routes, since I hadn't come across it on this aircraft type before. A standard antenna radome, which you'd barely notice on a wide-body jet, looks disproportionately large on the small CRJ fuselage and immediately grabs your attention. Before long, this detail will feel just as ordinary as a wingtip winglet.

After carefully drawing this new detail for the CRJ900, all that was left was the usual routine: paint the background, assemble all the poster versions, prepare it for publication and add it to the catalog, print the piece, and ship it off to the buyer. Order complete!

Airbus A320 Gulf Air

Registration: A9C-AI
Type: A320-214
Engines: 2 × CFMI CFM56-5B4/3
Serial Number: 4255
First flight: Feb 24, 2010

At first I set out to update this poster, which had been sitting in the archives for years. But once I reviewed it and weighed how much work it would take, I realized it would be simpler and faster to just draw it fresh. The aircraft from the original version of the poster left the airline's fleet long ago and, by now, seems to be forgotten by everyone. At least there hadn't been any demand for it in a long while. So I picked the same A320 model, but with a different registration, still in the same Gulf Air livery relevant to that particular aircraft.

But forecasting demand is still part of the job, and the subject for the upcoming poster wasn't chosen by reading tea leaves. As always for this purpose, I looked into the topic carefully, and here's what I found: Gulf Air plans to retire all of its Airbus A320 CEO aircraft by the end of this year. That will complete the renewal of its entire narrow-body fleet. Along with this, the airline's previous livery will also disappear. Aircraft A9C-AI is the youngest of the outgoing veterans, and it has the best chance of becoming the airline's last example of this type. Prints like this usually attract interest from pilots and collectors. We'll see...

Boeing 737-8 MAX American Airlines

Registration: N314UT
Type: 737-8
Engines: 2 × CFMI LEAP-1B25
Serial Number: 68361
First flight: Oct 27, 2025

This one was simple: we took the order, I drew the new poster, and my wife shipped the package. The new piece features an updated aircraft model, and the livery includes new stickers near the front door reflecting 2026 — alongside the standard OneWorld logo, there's a "100 Years of American Airlines" sticker and a FIFA World Cup 2026 partner mark. We already had one American Airlines 737 MAX in our collection. Now there's more to choose from.

Flashback

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Air Namibia

Registration: V5-NMC
Type: MD-11 P
Engines: 3 × PW PW4460
Serial Number: 48484
First flight: Dec 9, 1991

As it turns out, our collection only grew a little this time. Although three finished pieces are already in preparation for publication and will show up in the catalog soon. But that's a good excuse to look back at some older drawings.

I came across a 2022 poster of my favorite trijet, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11. The aircraft, registration V5-NMC, belonged to the now-defunct Air Namibia, which operated it for about a year starting in late 2004. The airline shut down in 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. As for the aircraft itself, it was converted to a freighter in late 2005 and flew for UPS as N283UP right up until January 2025.

But in our collection, it still stands against the backdrop of the harsh Namib desert, wearing the colors of Namibia's national carrier — waiting for its passengers, just like in the good old days. Shall we fly?

Mostly Updates, For Now

This July turned out to be a busy one, and even among the things I'd planned, not everything got done. Urgent orders kept coming in, forcing me to adjust my schedule, and the unexpected kept barging into an otherwise orderly lineup of work. But that's what makes life more interesting — routine never gets a chance to take over.

This time, almost all the posters joining our collection in July are updates to my older work. Only one is entirely new — 100% from scratch. But let's go in order.

MD-83 Andes

I first took on this commission nearly eight years ago. Back then, the aircraft was still flying regional routes for Andes, as well as charter flights carrying tourists to the most popular destinations in Argentina and Brazil on behalf of local tour operators. The printed poster went off, as expected, to Argentina. And in the wave of global upheavals that followed, this piece got buried somewhere in my archives. The aircraft itself didn't come through that difficult period unscathed either — Andes retired these jets from service during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to some reports, LV-BEG is currently in storage at the airline's home airport in Salta. The airline is still flying today, though, just on newer aircraft.

Setting out to bring the poster back into the catalog, I pulled the model out of the archive and would have blown the dust off it, if digital files could gather dust — the last time I worked with an MD-80 was back in December 2023. The updated poster is now back on our site, ready once again to become a gift for some aviation veteran or a treat for a collector.

Boeing 787-9 Air Tahiti Nui

This Dreamliner wears one of my favorite liveries. So much encoded meaning and storytelling about its people and lands scattered across the Pacific. When I was asked to draw a poster of Air Tahiti Nui's first 787, registration F-OMUA, the aircraft was still on the factory floor, but the first photos of it were already starting to leak online. Working with that material, I realized I wasn't just looking at patterns — I was looking at an entire legend. Earlier, before my site had a blog, I'd written about the airline and its enigmatic livery on another, not particularly popular platform. And since that platform has, let's say, folded, I'm planning to move that article over to my blog soon. It's good, interesting material.

That's how the first poster of the Tahitian "Dreamliner," complete with a breakdown of its patterns, came to be. About a year later, again as a commission, I drew a second poster featuring F-ONUI, which recently returned to our catalog after a model update, improved background, and the addition of a "Dark Theme." In the past, these posters were popular across French Polynesia, in France, and beyond. I'm sure they'll remain in demand going forward.

Boeing 747-100 Pan American

This piece is steeped in legend, both the aircraft and the airline. After all, the Boeing 747 owes its very existence to Pan Am. It was conceived in response to the carrier's need for a jet twice the size of the 707, in order to bring down the cost of flying. The airline stopped flying in 1991, and although rumors occasionally surface about its revival as a premium charter operation, it has already become history. For that matter, the original version of the "Jumbo" is long gone from the skies too. Meanwhile, the updated poster is back in our catalog and available to buyers once again in its refreshed form.

Airbus A340-600 Iberia

Here's a poster that's both entirely new and updated at the same time — the Airbus A340-600 Iberia. Its first edition was in the works while the aircraft was still flying. But it was retired during the pandemic in 2020, and scrapped in 2022. So why is this both a new and an updated poster at once? Where's this duality coming from, to borrow a phrase from quantum physics?

Here's the story: once, five or six years ago, my computer suffered a crash. As you know, these things happen. At first glance, nothing seemed seriously wrong, but the very next day I noticed files starting to vanish. That was already an alarming sign. We replaced the hard drive right away, and saved backups helped bring almost the entire collection back to life. But three posters vanished without a trace regardless, and the Airbus A340-600 Iberia was one of them. So what you see here is, in fact, a completely new poster.

Airbus A321P2F Qantas Freight operated by Express Freighters Australia

Rounding out July's lineup is a brand-new poster built on a fresh model from my collection — the freighter version of the Airbus A321. It features Express Freighters Australia, a new airline for our project, operating flights on behalf of Qantas Freight — also appearing here for the first time. Everything about this poster is new, which makes the print something special.

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More new and updated posters are already on the way — some are ready for publication, others are in the process of being created right now, and a few more are still just plans in my head. The process doesn't stop, no matter what. Thanks for being with us!

News #16

Sorting Through Unpublished Work…

In the days leading up to my forced work pause, I was busy sorting through finished but unpublished drawings. This often happens: you submit an order, send a package to a client, and there is already another one waiting in line—and it’s urgent—followed by a third and a fourth… There is simply no time left to publish what has already been completed. As a result, I had accumulated finished drawings that were not yet in my catalog. And now is exactly the time to bring all unfinished projects to their logical conclusion.

Airbus A319 & A320 Spirit Airlines

I will start immediately with two posters from one airline—Spirit Airlines. In our last issue, I talked about the first poster in this series, featuring a bright yellow A320. This time we present two more prints that, together with the first one, illustrate a segment of the airline’s livery history starting from 2004.

The "Pixel" livery appeared in 2002 on McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft, but back then it was blue in color. In 2004, when new Airbus A320 family aircraft began joining Spirit’s fleet, it was modified to visually emphasize the beginning of a "new era." The color scheme underwent significant changes. It was the same livery, but now it was "Silver Pixel" on a light gray background.

Despite looking very solid, this new pixel livery lasted only three years. In 2007, the company introduced a completely new paint scheme that looked nothing like its previous sophisticated "suit." It was called "Birthday Cake." The second poster in today’s collection is dedicated to this.

I could talk about aviation liveries for a very long time—it's my favorite topic. I could write a blog article about how Spirit changed its styles, but for a complete picture I am missing a couple of posters from that era when they flew MD-80s. So maybe someday later if this material is in demand.
In conclusion, all three new posters from this airline (including one from our last news issue) were drawn by order of one of Spirit’s employees. And you can find several more posters drawn earlier in our catalog. Despite the relentless passage of time, Spirit will remain with us on Aviaposter prints.

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Alitalia

This past winter and spring saw increased interest in Alitalia posters, so we expanded our collection of this former national carrier. A new poster was drawn by order at the beginning of spring. Our collection already has one MD-11 Alitalia poster that you can still find in our catalog.
The aircraft on these posters have one difference that is imperceptible to an ordinary person but very significant for an aviation fan. On the new poster, the aircraft is in an all-passenger configuration, while on the previous one it was a combi (passenger-freighter) model. Indeed, in the early 90s, MD-11s delivered to Alitalia’s fleet straight from the factory had different configurations.
Now that I have dug up these files from my hard drive archives, my collection has become more complete.

Boeing 767−300 Transaero

The next poster from my winter work is now mature enough for publication in our catalog.
Founded in December 1990, Transaero entered history as the first private airline to receive permission for scheduled flights in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Over time, it grew into the country’s second-largest air carrier after state-owned Aeroflot.
The airline’s fleet numbered over a hundred aircraft, including these 17 beauties—the Boeing 767−300s. This poster is about one of them.

Boeing 737−200Adv America West Airlines

And again—a poster born last cold and snowy winter. The drawing was ordered and delivered to the client in "Dark Theme," so I created the background for it right before publishing it on the website.
For the landscape behind the aircraft, as usual, I used fragments of dozens of Arizona landscape photos. I did a bit of magic by equalizing their color palette and sharpness into a single picture. After that, all that was left was to "stitch" them together… and attach my version of the sky.
Every time this process starts with a blank canvas. Unfortunately, there is no button on my keyboard labeled "Background for Boeing 737−200Adv America West Airlines." And even that vaunted AI’s "eyes glaze over" at a request for an image at 12k resolution.

Douglas C-47 Four Star Air Cargo

In March we published a poster in our catalog featuring Tanzanian airline Indigo Aviation’s Douglas C-47 registered as 5H-DAK.
This time we have a similar story, but we move to another part of the world—to Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea.
A small Puerto Rican cargo airline, Four Star Air Cargo, connected Puerto Rico with the American and British Virgin Islands. Its fleet consisted of six Douglas DC-3/C-47s—old but still sturdy aircraft that handled their tasks well. But one of them stood out: N138FS had a small drawing on its nose fairing—the famous cartoon pilot Snoopy.
I never thought that as part of my project I would have to draw this dog. But here he is.

SAAB 2000 Aleutian Airways

The last poster in today’s selection is a turboprop from the Aleutian Islands. This is my fresh work that hasn’t made it into our archive yet.
It’s been a long time since I’ve drawn a SAAB 2000. To be honest, this is only my second poster with such an aircraft, so before starting I updated my template which was originally drawn back in 2019.
At the client’s request, the aircraft stands against the backdrop of Ballyhoo Mountain—a prominent peak 503 meters (1650 feet) high located on Amaknak Island within Unalaska city limits (Alaska). Being the highest point on the island, it juts sharply out of the water overhanging the local airport.

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That’s what we have for this selection of posters this time around. I found time to complete all unfinished projects and publish them.
True enough, I’ve already started drawing several new posters, but finishing them will have to wait until after my doctor allows me to return to work.
Wishing everyone all good things and success!

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