Group 1
Air Canadien
IATA: CN | ICAO: CAN | Country: Canada | Hub: YUL - Aéroport international Montréal-Dorval (now Aéroport International Montréal-Trudeau)
Bringing back one of the first brands I ever uploaded to the gallery (and also one of my best received) - Air Canadien, a major Canadian legacy carrier founded in Montreal in the the late 1940s. Shown here is the airline's 1965 livery on its first Fokker F28 Mk1000, delivered in 1968. Air Canadien would go on to fly the F28 Mk1000C, Mk2000, and Mk4000, as well as F70 and F100 - all Fokker jet airliners bar the F28 Mk3000. During the time period depicted here it operated a variety of DC-8 and -9 variants, and would soon after go on to fly the DC-10, Boeing 767, 747-400, various MD-80s and eventually 737s, 777s, and 787s. Throughout its history and to this day, Air Canadien has remained one of Canada's largest and most premium carriers.
This Fokker in its original form has been on the gallery for almost four years at this point, but has now been recreated using an improved template and and much better Photoshop techniques than the super rudimentary way I used to create liveries back in 2018.