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After the purchase of Alaska Coastal Airlines in 1967, Alaska Airlines became a Grumman Goose operator. Alaska operated four different Grumman Gooses in the "Golden Nugget" scheme: N2751A and N4773C from 1967 until 1972, N1019N during 1968 as well as N4772C. N2751 was also painted in the "Totem Pole" scheme as depicted in our set Goose-09. -
After the purchase of Alaska Coastal Airlines in 1967, Alaska Airlines became a Grumman Goose operator. Alaska operated N2751A from 1967 until 1972 in both the "Totem" as well as the "Golden Nugget" schemes. -
Avalon Air Transport started operations in 1953 with one Grumman Goose - N1503V. Based at southern California's Long Beach Airport, they ran daily round trips to the Pebbly Beach seaplane ramp near Avalon on Catalina Island, CA This decal sheet was inspired by a 1959 episode of "Sea Hunt" called "The Amphibian" Mike is taking a group of divers out to an island for a days dive by seaplane. The star of the show is the Goose, #5 "“ N1543V. The pilot in this episode is called Dick Talbert. His real name is Dick Probert, the pilot and owner of Avalon Air Transport. -
Long Beach, California based Catalina Flying Boats is a cargo and passenger airline operating between Long Beach and Catalina Island. Founded in 1984, Catalina operated Grumman Goose N69263 between 1984 and 1989. -
Bf-109 V14 D-ISLU was flown by famed World War I ace Ernst Udet, who was at the time chief of the Technischen Amt of the Reichluftfartministerium. D-ISLU was painted in a "Wine Red" color that Udet had popularized with all the aircraft he flew . This decal was originally released by Red Pegasus. We have updated the printing and it is now printed in our Next Generation DIGITAL Silk with double-struck white ink.
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.