Livery
Hughes Airwest's planes were rather recognizable by their banana-yellow fuselage and tail colors. Because of this, their airplanes were often dubbed "flying bananas" and the airline even launched an advertising campaign with the catchphrase "Top Banana in the West". Most nicknames given to Hughes Airwest airplanes in aviation books and magazines have to do with bananas. Apart from their all-yellow scheme, the airplanes also featured a blue logo that resembled three diamonds on their tails (and was possibly a reference to the initials of Howard Hughes.) The name Hughes Airwest, in stylized lettering, was featured below the front passenger windows.
This unique livery was devised by the southern California design firm of Mario Armond Zamparelli, following the crash of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 after it was involved in a midair collision with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B jet fighter near Duarte, California, on June 6, 1971. The company thought the plane's all-white fuselage, now called "Eurowhite," was a contributing factor, so the whole fleet was repainted. The cabin windows also had a metallized PET film coating originally, but this proved too costly to maintain.
Following 1980, the all-yellow paint scheme was gradually replaced by Republic's white with blue and green trim.
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