Transamazon A350-941 (1st A350 livery)

Transamazon was founded in 1929 as Táxi Aéreo Amazônico. The airline specialized in Air Taxi flight at the time, and only rose to prominence after the war, when they became the national airline of Brazil. By their peak in the late 1990s, they operated 132 aircraft, consisting of Embrear e120s,737 classic/NG, 767-200/300, MD-11s, and the 747-400, with 9 A340-600s on order. However, in the early 2000s, thing started to go wrong at the airline, due to increased competition by new low-cost carriers, as well as less demand due to the September 11 attacks. By 2006, the airline was in severe debt and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their restructuring plans consisted of getting rid of all MD-11s and 747s, as well as shrinking their 767 fleet in half. This along with many other cost saving measures, took the airline back to a financially healthy state in 2011. In 2015 Transamazon ordered 20 Airbus A350-900s, along with 60 A320neo family aircraft and 15 A330neos. The first A350 arrived in 2019, and was painted in the livery shown above, colored in vibrant shades of blue and teal, which symbolized the oceans and seas the aircraft would overfly on long haul flights. This was also a test for a new paint that was much lighter than conventional aircraft paint, thus making the aircraft less heavy and have more range even with full body paint schemes like this one.