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Original Paint Schemes

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Does anybody have pictures or drawings of original paint schemes of the 140. I would like to get as authentic as possible when I repaint my aircraft.
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Re: Original Paint Schemes

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The original paint schemes involve a lot of polished aluminum...

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Re: Original Paint Schemes

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5765 wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:26 pm The original paint schemes involve a lot of polished aluminum...

Greg
Did they have stripes on them though? I've seen some that have piano key stripes on the cowl with 140 and 1 stripe along the side of the fuselage across
the tail and the cessna logo on the tail on top of polished aluminum but I could use a different background like white or some other light color.
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Re: Original Paint Schemes

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The schemes changed from year to year.
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Re: Original Paint Schemes

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Thayne,
I am sure there are others but here is one, hope it helps.
cessna-140-170-190-1940s-factory-brochure.jpg
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Re: Original Paint Schemes

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This one is dated 1948...
1948-cessna-airplane-sales_sm.jpg
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