Frontier JetExpress CRJ-700s

[botamern]

At the end of 2003, Horizon Air began operating flights on behalf of Frontier Airlines. The flights were operated to and from Frontier's Denver hub and marketed as Frontier JetExpress. There were 9 aircraft eventually dedicated to the Frontier flying, with 8 of the aircraft featuring a unique animal picture on the tail in keeping with the standard Frontier Airlines paint scheme. One aircraft was flown in a generic all white scheme, as it would regularly return to the Horizon Air route network. Additionally, aircraft in the standard Horizon Air colors would occasionally make their would out to Denver and into the JetExpress network. Horizon ended all Frontier JetExpress flying in November of 2007, when the regional flying for Frontier was taken over by Republic Airways using Embraer 170s.

Below are the 9 CRJ-700 aircraft that flew as part of the Frontier JetExpress system.

N601QX - Bald Eagle


N602QX - Grizzly Bear Cub


N604QX - Unpainted


N605QX - Wolf


N608QX - Raccoon


N609QX - Antelope


N609QX - Primer tail (This aircraft flew without the antelope for a brief period after entering service.)


N611QX - Fox


N616QX - Mountain Goat


N617QX - Elk

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

That's what I call "DARNED NICE" fleet representation

Very impressive Nick !

Please post file names here once you get'em up and publicly available at wherever your panning to send these.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[Tony Madge - HJG]

very impressive livery beaten by an even more impressive paint job, nice work Nick

[gus]

Hello,

A complete serie of Frontier liveries CRJ-700 is already available on Flightsim or Avsim

FS2004 Frontier JetExpress Bombardier CRJ-700 (animal tails). Model by Project Open Sky. Painted by Gary Hayes.

Nick .. you make a remake ?

Cheers.

[botamern]

Gus,

I did a remake, in a way. Gary only painted four of the aircraft, and did not paint the two aircraft (604 and 609 with a primer tail) that did not feature an animal on the tail. In Gary's release you only have 601, 605, 608 and 617.

Besides, there's nothing out there stating that two people can't paint the same scheme.

Nick

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

Besides, there's nothing out there stating that two people can't paint the same scheme.

I didn't know these had already been previously released by someone else (namely Gary) .... but .... so long as both parties are are respecting of each others work (which I'm sure they are anyway) then I don't see any problem at all.

Each textructors work becomes their personal statement about any particular duplicated subject .... which is what ends up making any such duplications individual/unique .... and the rest is then up to the community to vote per their Mouse.

The only thing I would jump on .... very smartly (knocking it on the head) .... in a case like this is if anyone here started saying something like "mine is better than Joe BLOGGS etc" .... but .... that hasn't happened here and I'm sure among respecting individuals (like both Gary, and Nick) that's not likely to happen either.

Mark C
AKL/NZ

[gus]

Hello,

Besides, there's nothing out there stating that two people can't paint the same scheme

I agree
Just for name one .. it's many many remakes of repaints for the Posky planes

Cheers.

[botamern]

Now available at:

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[qxductape]

Great Job as usual Nick!

It sad to think though that some of those birds are already being packed-up and sent to visit Phil Foglar over in South Africa. In fact one left today. Thanks for doing the "Dirty Bird" CRJ, too!

Funny how just one digit in a paint part number can make such a difference. The curious thing, was that it was not like the guys who painted wrong hadn't painted QX planes before, and should have noticed something wasn't right with the paint.

[botamern]

Ya know, I first thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I flew to Seattle and saw a cream colored QX RJ. It wasn't until I got off the plane I was on and went to the gate where it was sitting that I realized that 608 really wasn't white.

Go figure, maybe by the time they realized it was the wrong color it was too late and there wasn't enough time to stip it and paint it again.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

maybe by the time they realized it was the wrong color it was too late and there wasn't enough time to stip it and paint it again.

Probably more/if not just aas importantly .... don't forget the obvious cost of fixing up the "BOTCH UP" too.

I've seen evidence of some interesting "STUFF-UPS" over the years in the case of airline liveries .... among which include ....

An ANSETT AUSTRALIA B727-200 or DC9 (I forget which) that came out of maintenance briefly supporting fuselage titles reading "ANNSETT".

And even one of the (current) AIR NEW ZEALAND B747-400 fleet was which delivered to us from Boeing during the late 1990's featuring botched paint job (I think it's ZK-NBV) .... the trailing edge of the tail/"KORU" logo is too heavily overspreyed, and other parts of the aircraft were painted and which shouldn't have been painted .... and in tthe wrong shade of grey too.

The ANSETT "botch-up" was quickly resolved after about a week or so and a wee bit of public emabarrassment, I believe, because the aircraft was still required to fly some services with name error ... but .... the AIR NEW ZELAND livery has never since been rectified.

The main purpose of airlines is of course to use aircraft "make money" .... and I guess "pretty-ing them up" isn't at all really promoting of that fundamental intention/purpose.

There was even once a deliberate error made with an aircraft livery here too during the late 1980's/early 1990's. AIR NEW ZEALAND subsidiary SAFE AIR CARGO flew 2 ARGOSY freighters on domestic overnight freight operations throughought New Zealand. When AIR NEW ZEALAND suddenly announced it's intention to get rid of SAFE AIR's flying operations .... with a loss of some 110 jobs (all part of the airlines restructuring plan of the time), disgruntled engineers one night doctored the titles on 1 ARGOSY. Instead of reading "SAFE AIR CARGO" .... they now read "SAFE AIR CANGO" (meaning .... SAFE AIR can go !) as a political statement aimed directly at the then management of parent company AIR NEW ZEALAND. As luck would have it engineers had the last laugh when this aircraft was suddenly required to fly services for another week with these edited fuselage titles.

Mark C
AKL/NZ