Belize Airways Ltd. Boeing 720 Collection

[John Keane - HJG]

Early in the sim..working on her right now..





Close up of the nose logo


Does anyone know the actual call-sign for Belize Airways Ltd? I've been looking for this to include with the CFG I'll be sending along. Any info on that would be greatly appreciated!

Enjoy
John

[Tony Madge - HJG]

Sorry John I have no idea on the callsign....

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

This's definitely gonna be one of our rarest B720 liveries .... and a great addition to the HJG inventory too John .... thanks for taking it on !

It's looking great so far !

Does anyone know the actual call-sign for Belize Airways Ltd?

I "might possibly" have something .... but .... will be unable to access that information until I return to NZ during December.

In cases where I can't find "official" airline callsigns I simply use the airline name .... or at least part of it. In this case I´d simply write ....

"BELIZE" .... or maybe "BELIZE_AIR".

Mark C
BOG/CO

[John Keane - HJG]

Thanks Guys!

I've completely remade the tail logo and the fuselage titles with this one. Have the livery now on both sides. I had fun flying it last night from Belize to Guatemala City then onto Managua. ;D She's essentially done now, all I have to add are the engine titles which will catch some eyes {Grin}

I'll preview it once I get two more variants of this livery cranked out, one a pax model with bare metal on the bottom {VP-HCM "Belmopan"}, and a rare Belize Airways Cargo version, {VP-HCN "Altun-Ha"} without the cargo door, windows were blanked out over most of the fuselage. They used 3 of their 6 strong -022 fleets as freighters with the passenger seats ripped out. No cargo door fitted on the left side forward. It's an interesting little carrier. Then I have another Caribbean surprise {a 707-120 and a 720-022} after these three are done.

Regards
John

[John Keane - HJG]

Okay..Here we go..ALMOST finished with this one...I still have some very minor editing of the "B" with the BAL lettering on the tail.

I have the bare metal bottom version ready to ROCK once I get this base model all done, then onto the cargo version. It will complete overall very soon and cover a very rarely known carrier with this airplane.

Okay let's roll the screenshots..





Engine "Boeing 707 - 720" detail


Lightened up "Belize City" ship name


Right Side panoramic view showing engine detail, new tail detail and new resized and set fuselage "Belize Airways LTD." lettering


Enjoy..this one is getting interesting..2 more are after this one..a Bare Metal bottom and Cargo version to follow..{I would have had the bare metal bottom one DONE tonight had it not been for one of my Mollies giving birth in the main fish tank tonight..saved 23 of the little critters..BIG Molly fry at that..half black and half golden that took up around 1.5 hours getting solved. I'm pretty sure my new shoal of Zebra Angelfish enjoyed snacking on them before I saw what was happening..sheesh..}

{PS..does anyone know if the REG Numbers were painted on the wings with these Belize Airways planes? Any info would be appreciated!!!)


Regards
John

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

That's looking spot-on to me John

I didn't realise BELIZE AIRWAYS ever operated a freighter version of the B720 .... interesting !

Just for those who may be unaware .... these BELIZE AIRWAYS aircraft really did feature that unusual "BOEING 707 - 720" branding on the engine nacelles as appears in John's most recent images above.

Mark C
BOG/CO

[gus]

Hello,

Interesting link about Belize Airways ....

www.aerotransport.org/php/go.php?query=operator&qstring=Belize+Airways&where=10394&luck=

Regards.

[John Keane - HJG]

Okay Guys..only the lightmaps to edit and then these will be AIRBORNE!

Presenting a RARE 720-022F, VP-HCN "Altun-Ha".

Belize Airways had 3 720-022F Freighters. These did not have a main-deck cargo door fitted, rather they used the 4 large cabin doors of the ex-UAL -022's. Looks like they used the "Airborne Express" method to carry cargo, with a stripped floor with tie-down/restraint points for small packages/pallets.







Cargo lettering on both rear fuselage sides. Note the new "Blanked out windows" I made these from existing window shades on the 720 textures, then tinkered with them and colored them to look like a window shade pulled down as they appear in the few pictures available of this ship.


Ship name detail "Altun-Ha"


Here's a rare Bare metal bottomed 720-022 VP-HCM "Belmopan", the only one so painted that I can find courtesy of the Jon Proctor "Boeing 720" book. Interesting look with the metal underneath.







Ship name detail "Belmopan" {This name in particular was very difficult to find with any scans or online images. So I found the closest font I could {"Forelle"} and "started playing with it" many times over before getting it reasonably right and close to the real look. I like the final results. It took two tries to get it right, I almost settled on the original version I made, lettering looked too small so I canned that idea and reworked it today.}


Last but not least, a revised VP-HCO "Belize City" with small black forward windscreen shading. I added this to all the Belize 720s after eye-balling them closely.



Three Belize Airways Ltd 720s in various paint and rig headed at you very soon!

Regards
John

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

This great looking stuff John !

I'm itching to have a play with these rarebirds .... as I'm sure any number of our other community members will be too.

Mark C
BOG/CO

[John Keane - HJG]

AIRBORNE!

Lightmaps adjusted, last minute look over, text files edited and everything zipped. Unchock the tires and light the fires! We're 'outta Dodge City baby! Next stop Bogota'

;D ;D

Check your mail Mark..

Regards
John

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

"SAFELY DOWN" .... Got all 3 of'em John .... Thanks !

I'll process them them for you accordingly

Mark C
BOG/CO