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- Owner: pliam96 (View all images and albums)
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- Album Carolina Air
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In 1950, Carolina Air opened up trans-national flights using the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. This was replaced by the DC-7 in the late 1950s. Though by the late 1950s, the DC-7 was considered obsolete with the advent of the De Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 series and Douglas DC-8 series, Carolina Air executives saw the DC-7 as a short-term solution to replacing the vastly obsoleted Boeing 377. It took many years, but, in the end, Carolina Air decided on the DC-9-30 to further continue East Coast and Canadian services. In 1965, Carolina Air ordered 44, later reducing to 42 DC-9-30s. With the introduction of the Boeing 727-100, the DC-9-30 would operate on routes with less demand, such as RDU-RIC, in comparison to CLT-JFK.
The arrival of the DC-9-30 would revolutionize Carolina Air's image, and so, a new livery was needed. In 1967, upon the arrival of the first DC-9-30, Carolina Air unveiled it's new livery to the world. This paint scheme would be used on all Fokker F-27s, Boeing 727s, DC-7s (During replacement).
The livery would be utilized from 1967-1983.
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