American Airlines proudly commemorates its heritage with special livery schemes on a number of its aircraft fleet.
American today is the result of mergers with a number of other carriers, most notably US Airways in 2013, as well as AirCal, TWA, Reno Air and PSA in the past.
The liveries worn today reflect these former carriers, as well as US Airways’ predecessors Piedmont American West and Allegheny.
Having recently painted heritage liveries onto a new set of aircraft, these are the current details of the special livery fleet:
Photo (c) Arno Vesterholm
N162AA Airbus A321-200 Stand Up To Cancer livery
N167AN Airbus A321-200 Flagship Valor ‘Medal of Honor’ livery
Photo (c) American Airlines
N578UW Airbus A321-200 US Airways Retro Jet
N579UW Airbus A321-200 Allegheny Retro Jet
N580UW Airbus A321-200 America West Retro Jet
N581UW Airbus A321-200 Piedmont Retro Jet
N582UW Airbus A321-200 PSA Retro Jet
American AstroJet Livery. Photo (c) Arno Vesterholm
N905NN Boeing 737-800 American Airlines AstroJet livery
American TWA Heritage livery. Photo (c) Adam Moreira
N915NN Boeing 737-800 TWA Retro Jet
N916NN Boeing 737-800 Reno Air Retro Jet
American Airlines AirCal livery. Photo (c) Colin Cooke
N917NN Boeing 737-800 AirCal Retro Jet
Photo (c) Colin Cooke
N921NN Boeing 737-800 American Airlines Polished Metal Livery
American Airlines Oneworld Aircraft
Photo (c) TJDarmstadt
American Airlines is a part of the Oneworld alliance.
As a result, a number of its aircraft wear Oneworld titles and modified livery, including:
- N837NN Boeing 737-800
- N919NN Boeing 737-800
- N973AN Boeing 737-800
- N791AN Boeing 777-200ER
- N796AN Boeing 777-200ER
Title Image (c) The West End
Which is your favourite American Airlines special livery? Leave a comment below!
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I like them all. However, some are pretty hard to come, by eventhough, LGA and JFK are nearby. I seen the metal polished AA and TWA liveries on radar, at JFK. The piedmont, and Allegheny, at LGA. I did caught the American West livery, A320 at LGA by cellphone, camera. Air Calin, as well, and Stand up to cancer, albeit, at a distance. The other one’s, I have, no luck. They Seldom come by.
Oh, forgot to mention the retro and one world! I caught them before. =)
Many people who used to fly Tran Caribbean Airways-TCA have been requesting their livery but no answer from AA. American Airlines purchased TCA in 1971.