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The totally
new livery of green and gold designed by London design consultants Negus
and Negus was introduced on PIA's first Boeing 747-200B delivered to
the airline on April 16,
1976.This livery made good use of the national colors of green and
white, enhanced by a gold cabin window line above a broad peacock green
band extending the length of the fuselage. The new livery for the first
time introduced stylized Urdu script PIA initials designed by a
London-based Chinese artist. Pakistan International titles
in green alongside stylized Urdu script PIA initials in gold, were
displayed on the upper forward fuselage. White PIA initials
highlighted the all green tail fin.
Old timers
recall that in the late 70s, when the green and gold livery was first
introduced, it used to turn heads and earn admiring comments. Even at
busy international airports worldwide, the PIA aircraft's peacock green
tail helped it to stand out in the crowd.
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Boeing
747-282B (Copyright © Peter
Frei) |
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AP-AYV
landing at Frankfurt Airport in late 1970s.
Note blade style golden cheatline; both AP-AYV and AP-AYW (PIA's
first two Boeing 747s) sported this style of cheatline during
their early years with PIA |
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (Abbas
Ali Collection) |
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PIA McDonnell
Douglas DC-10-30 aircraft registration AP-AXE |
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Airbus
A300B4-203 (Copyright
© ATDB) |
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In
this photo you can see PIA's brand new A300B4 with French
pre-delivery registration F-WZER at Toulouse in France. This
A300 was delivered to PIA as AP-BAY in 1980 |
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Boeing 707-351B (Abbas
Ali Collection) |
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PIA Boeing 707
aircraft registration AP-BAA |
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Fokker F27 Friendship Mark 200 (Abbas
Ali Collection) |
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PIA Fokker F27
Friendship aircraft registration AP-AXB at Karachi Airport in
December 1984 |
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de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (Abbas
Ali Collection) |
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AP-BCG at Chitral Airport |
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Boeing
737-340 (Copyright © Dave Campbell
via Peter
Frei) |
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Brand new
AP-BCE seen at London-Heathrow Airport in United Kingdom. The aircraft
made technical stop at
this airport during its delivery flight from USA to Pakistan in 1985 |
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Boeing
747-282B (Copyright © PIA) |
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AP-AYW
landing at Karachi Airport in late 1970s.
Note blade style golden cheatline; both AP-AYV and AP-AYW (PIA's
first two Boeing 747s) sported this style of cheatline during
their early years with PIA |
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Boeing
747-282B (Copyright © Johan
Ljungdahl) |
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Here
AP-AYV is painted with standard golden cheatline. Johan took this
photo at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, on August 25, 1982 |
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