BRAND-NEW
SPECI AL ON T R AN SPORTATION
AkzoNobel and Icelandair Let Fly With Stunning New Livery
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celand’s rich and vivid history is being celebrated with colourful new livery launched by Icelandair, which was specially
created using AkzoNobel products. The Icelandic national airline’s new Boeing 757300 looks stunning with its tri-colour red, white and blue fuselage, which represents the colours of Iceland’s flag (Fig. 1). It was developed
to mark the 100th anniversary of Iceland’s independence and sovereignty. Featuring the company’s latest generation base coat/clear coat system and Aerodur 3001/3002 range, the aircraft is also coated with Aeroflex wing coatings and Aerofine interior cabin coatings. One of its first jobs was to fly Iceland
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Figure 1: The Icelandic national airline’s new Boeing 757-300 coated using AkzoNobel products.
coatings will continue to provide the kind
these milestones in Iceland’s history,
“We have been partners with Icelandair for
of protection and endurance that has
Iceland’s sovereignty and the Icelandic
many years and were delighted to supply
helped Icelandic culture and heritage to
National team’s debut at the World Cup,
products for their eye-catching new livery,”
thrive for so many years.”
and are thrilled with the result. AkzoNobel
said John Griffin, Director of AkzoNobel’s
Added Icelandair’s Jón Skafti Kristjánsson,
products are used on the entire Icelandair
Aerospace Coatings business. “The design
Director of Marketing: “We wanted to
fleet and we couldn’t be happier with the
looks stunning and our high performance
do something remarkable to celebrate
quality and efficiency of the solutions the
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football fans to Russia.
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Figure 2: The Boeing 757 ‘Hekla Aurora’ based on the Northern Lights.
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N. 52 - JULY/AUGUST 2018 - international PAINT&COATING magazine