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Northwest Orient, later Northwest Airlines, was the launch customer for the Pratt & Whitney-powered version of the DC-10, the DC-10-20. Northwest wanted fleet commonality with it’s 747 fleet, so the longer-ranged DC-10 was developed with JT9D engines, and per Northwest’s request became the DC-10-40 so to not be considered inferior to the DC-10-30 which Douglas was also developing. The final irony to follow was Northwest obtaining second-hand DC-10-30s which were all operated after the DC-10-40’s retirement. -
This decal is designed for the British Airways Concorde fleet painted in the final “Union Flag” paint scheme. Each Concorde had a slightly different variation of the tail design, and this decal depicts G-BOAC. -
Hewa Bora Airways was the national airline of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hewa Bora was shut down in 2011 after a fatal crash of a 727-100. This decal depicts the 727-200s operated by Hewa Bora prior to their demise. -
At one point South African Airways operated over 25 of the venerable 737-200 in passenger service. In 1995, South African then converted two of them into freighters as our decal depicts. -
For two years from 1969 to 1971, Purdue Airlines, based in West Lafayette, Indiana, operated three McDonnell-Douglas DC-9-30s. The jet aircraft were a step up from Purdue's previous DC-6 and DC-3 props. In reality, Purdue operated four DC-9s - the other being Hugh Hefner's Black Bunny, for which the airline provided both crews and maintenance. The airline DC-9s wore a blue and white color scheme.
About Draw Decal
Offering High Quality and Unique Aircraft Decals Since 1999!
How did we get our Name?
My father is a US Army-trained draftsman, and he always signed his drawings with the initials “DRAW.” Since we have to DRAW our decals, and DRAW is also the first four letters of my last name, it seemed to be a natural name for our company.
What is the idea behind DRAW Decal?
I produce airline decals that normally would not be popular enough to justify mass producing. Each decal is printed as demand warrants, one page at a time by a professional print house. This makes for slow production, but it allows us to individually inspect each decal and to also update the decal sets as the need arises. While these production sets are all currently available, they are only produced (i.e. printed) as they are ordered. I have no large pile of unsold, unpopular decals to contend with this way. Our decals are as close to custom-made as possible.
Who creates your art?
The art work for our decals is created by a group of artists, with each one contributing sets of their own unique design and preference. Currently, DRAW Decal offers decals designed by: Tim Bradley, Mike Egan, Norm Filer, Mike Jernfors, Jeff Thomsen and yours truly, Greg Drawbaugh. Each set is identified by whom designed it unless I was the one who designed it.
How do I do that?
Our decals are printed in our exclusive Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process using a large format digital printer that prints white ink. We do NOT sell ANY laser-printed decals. Laser printers are for printing instruction sheets, not printing decals.
We are made the switch to our latest Next Generation DIGITAL Silk process to provide what we believe to be among the highest quality decals in the industry. We also want to be able to provide subjects that just would not print well using any other process. Quality and value have always been our driving force, and we continue to push the limits of what our printer and artwork is capable of producing. We operate under a continual improvement process for all of our decals.
Do you run out of stock?
No, as I print decals only as they are ordered. This ensures that the decals are fresh and never out of stock. This also allows me to make corrections and additions to each set as they occur.
Once applied, these decals will look just like they were painted on, rather than just “stickers” applied over a paint job. Remember, the art of decaling is making it look like you did not use any decals!
Thanks for stopping by, and come back often to see what we have added.