We don't have the 727 prototypes? Me can fix it inmediately!
Long time ago I made the three -100 prototypes and the two -200 prototypes. They were published in flightsim.com and another places.
Here is part of the redme.txt file
"Today is February 9,1963, when the Cuba crisis has just happened, before the killing of Jhon F. Kennedy and before the making of the Basic lenguaje. Today you can seat in the left side and go back to the days when the new Boeing 727-100 was the "non plus ultra" of the aviation, when there wasn't any civilian plane with more than 1000 units build. Boeing, like any other airplane factory of this days, made prototypes of its planes. There were famous by its cream and chocolat colors (727-100, 737-100), until it changed, first red and white (727-200, 737-200, 747-100), later the white, blue and red used today (737-300, 757, 767, 777).
When Boeing launched the 727-100, there were build tree prototypes. The first one, or E1, carried the registration N7001U, and was sold to United Airlines. Today is in the Museum of Flight in Seattle and is being restored to its United Airlines decoration. If you want more information, conect to
rbogash.com/ual727tx.htm, this is the place where I found almost all the information to make this repaint.
The E2 was the Second Production Airplane. With the same paint scheme as E1, was registrated as N72700, and it is often mistaken for E1. The painting changes only in the lack of the launching customers on the nose. E2 remained a Boeing airplane throughout its life, re-registered N1784B in 1971, then re-registered again in its original N72700 tail number in May 1975. Today the forward fuselage is being used in Boeing's Everett Plant as a worker training device.
The E3, the Third Production Airplane, was painted in a hybrid Boeing-United color scheme (United colors with Boeing markings), and was registered N7002U. It was sold to United Airlines, lated donated to the City of San Francisco and today can be seen at the ramp of San Francisco Community College at KSFO.
On September 17, 1963, the fourth production plane, registered N7003U, made a promotion trip around the world: Montreal, Azores, Tokio, Roma, Beirut, Karachi (when meeted with its rival the Trident 1 Prototype), Calcuta, Bangkok, Manila, Australia, Johannesburg, Nairobi and back to the United States by November.
As I allways do before make a repaint, I looked for Flight Simulator's 727-100 in Boeing colors, but seems that nobody has done it before.
About the 727-200, The first flight of the 727-200 occurred on July 27 1967, with certification granted in late November that year. The -200 was placed into service by launch customer Northeast Airlines (this airline was later acquired by Delta) the following month, by which time total 727 orders for both models had exceeded 500.
There were at least two 727-200 prototypes. One of them, registered N47876, has some pictures and a textures only made by Kevin Stewart for use with the Mike Stone's FS2002 model (Kevin made a mistake in the color of the plane: is red and white, not black and white). I found a Kevin Sparkuhl' repaint of a Erick Cantu's model, too. But I couldn't find any actual info about it.
Plus, I found TWO info about a N7270C: The first B727-100C built, this aircraft was ordered by Northwest but delivered to Piedmont instead in 04/67, today is registered as C-GKFC, operated by Kelowna Flightcraft and the N7270C registration is asigned to a Cessna. The second info about N7270C is: The first B727-200, first flight July 27, 1967, delivered to Northeast.
I received too a Boeing magazine picture of a 727-200 in the old "cream and chocolat" colors.", (but with not enought quality to be usefull.)
As you can read, there was no UNIQUE prototype of the -100 and -200.
I'll be glad to make remaining four prototypes of the 727-100 and -200, probably in a couple of months. The pictures are from my "pre-hjg" time, so I must be doing all the research and color investigation again.
