Which livery best suits each aircraft? My opinions (I’m gonna do Boeing, Airbus, DC,MD, Lockheed, Bombardier, and Embraer):
707: Pan Am
717: TWA Final
727: NW Bowling Shoe
731: Lufthansa 1970s
732: Pan Am
733: UA Battleship Grey
734: BA Landor
735: UA Battleship Grey
736: SAS
737: WN Desert Gold
738: AA Bare Metal
739: KLM
738M: Ryanair
739M: United with gold 787 Stripe
741: Lufthansa 1970s
742: TWA Final
743: Swissair
74SP: UA Battleship Grey
744: Too many good ones to choose from. I’m gonna go with Iberia 1977, but almost any livery looks good on this majestic bird.
748: Lufthansa yellow crane
752: IB 1977, TWA Final, UA Battleship Grey, BA Negus, NW Bowling Shoe. Again, lots of good ones to choose from.
752WL: AA Bare Metal
753: NW Bowling Shoe
762: JAL 1990s
763: AA Bare Metal
764: United
772: Air New Zealand
773: Thai
77W: Etihad
788: Aeromexico
789: ANZ All Blacks or KLM
78X: KLM

A300: Lufthansa 1970s
A310: Delta 1960s
A318: Air France
A319: Iberia 1977
A320: United Frienship Retro
A321: Current AA
A320neo: Lufthansa
A321neo: Starlux
A332: Qantas
A333: Turkish
A342/A343: Swiss
A345: Etihad or Las Vegas Sands
A346: Lufthansa Yellow Crane
A359/A35K: Qatar
A380: Emirates
A220: Swiss

DC-1: TWA
DC-2: TWA Lindbergh Line
DC-3: AA 1930s
DC-4: Buffalo Airways
DC-6: SAS Viking
DC-7: SAS Viking, Swissair, AA 1930s.
DC-8: KLM or Iberia
DC-9: NW Bowling Shoe, SAS Viking, KLM, Iberia 1977
DC-10: BA Landor
MD-11: KLM
MD-80: AA Bare Metal, Iberia 1977, Aeromexico Bare Metal
MD-90: SAS

Early Electras: TWA
L-188: Braniff Jellybean
L1011: Eastern

CRJ-200: Old Air Nostrum
CRJ-700: Air India Regional or United Express Battleship Grey
CRJ-900: SAS with red engines. BTW, if I write just “SAS”, I mean the red engine livery.
CRJ-1000: Old Air Nostrum

E135: Air France
E140: Old American Eagle
E145: Loganair
E145XR: United Express new livery
E170: S7 or LOT
E175: Alaska
E190: Current American
E195: Flybe
E190-E2: Helvetic
E195-E2: Binter

Whew, I did it. These are all subject to change, and as you can see, there were some that I couldn’t decide on.

I like in all the threads of "choose the best *one*" it's anything but....

Great topic - and that's a lot of planes to get through! A few favorites come to mind:
Braniff 727
Braniff Calder DC8
United Saul Bass 727
AIr New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines 767
Air New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines DC10
TWA with the globe on the tail 707
Aer Lingus BAC111
New Air France on anything Airbus (320,350,220)
Air France Concorde

Honorable mention: ANA 727

Midwest had the best 717 livery to me. I might be a bit biased, though.

Okay, let's see.....

707: Ecuatoriana
717: Volotea
721: TransBrasil
722: Iran Aseman Airlines (last livery)
731: America West "Phoenix Suns"
732: Canadian North
733: Nauru Airlines
734: Thai Airways
735: SmartWings
736: WestJet
737: Luxair
738: Royal Air Maroc
739: SkyUp
7M8: Norwegian
7M9: Alaska Airlines
741: Air Pacific
742: Garuda Indonesia
743: Corsair
74SP: South African Airways 1997
744: Qantas
748: Boeing
752: Jet2 Holidays
753: Condor (current livery)
762: Eastern
763: Air Seychelles
764: Delta
772: Alitalia (newest livery)
773: China Airlines
788: Aeromexico
789: Etihad
78X: KLM

A300: Monarch (last livery)
A310: Air Transat
A318: Mexicana
A319: TAP Air Portugal
A320: Cebu Pacific
A321: Wizzair
A320N: Viva Air
A321N: Aeroflot
A332: Malaysia Airlines "Negaraku livery"
A333: Sichuan Airlines "Chengdu 2021 31st Summer Universiade livery"
A338: Uganda Airlines
A339: Citilink
A342: Air Tahiti NUI
A343: Aerolineas Argentinas
A345: Azerbaijan Airlines
A346: China Eastern "Expo 2010"
A359: FrenchBee
A35K: Air Caraïbes
A380: Emirates
A221: Swiss
A223: EgyptAir

DC-2: KLM "Holland" (orange livery)
DC-3: McDonald's "Taupo Maccas" (green livery)
DC-4: Faucett Peru
DC-6: Transavia Holland
DC-7: Binter Canarias "Seven Seas"
DC-8: Hawaiian
DC-9: FlySax
DC-10: Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
MD-11: Finnair
MD-81: Spanair
MD-82: FlyNordic
MD-83: World Atlantic
MD-87: Air Liberté
MD-90: Hello Air

L-188: Air California
L1011: Maldivian

CRJ-200: Air Canada (Green Jazz livery)
CRJ-700: Adria
CRJ-900: Pluna
CRJ-1000: Hop!

E135: JetSuiteX
E145: California Pacific
E170: Estonian
E175: Egyptair Express
E190: Helvetic
E195: Azul
E190-E2: Widerøe
E195-E2: Belavia

I think I did a pretty good job, although some choices were tough. Either because there were too many beautiful liveries for a certain type or too few. Some aircraft I had to settle for the least bad, there was simply nothing better.

How exactly nobody has put the Air Greenland A330s (-200 or -800) on this list baffles me , the neo in particular is one of the most beautiful liveries I’ve ever seen

Swed3120 wrote:

How exactly nobody has put the Air Greenland A330s (-200 or -800) on this list baffles me , the neo in particular is one of the most beautiful liveries I’ve ever seen

I've never seen it before.

Too bad Airliners.Net does not let us upload photos to these threads, we would have a lot of fun on this one!

I’ll probably get hate on this one..

Spirit (Yellow livery with raccoon mask) A320neo

seat1a wrote:

Great topic - and that's a lot of planes to get through!

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks! And yeah, this took quite a while to make.

seat1a wrote:

A few favorites come to mind:
Braniff 727
Braniff Calder DC8
United Saul Bass 727
AIr New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines 767
Air New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines DC10
TWA with the globe on the tail 707
Aer Lingus BAC111
New Air France on anything Airbus (320,350,220)
Air France Concorde

Honorable mention: ANA 727

Personally I don't like the ANA livery nor UA's Saul Bass scheme (although I do love the look of the 727), but I agree with the other choices.
Regarding Air New Zealand, while the two-tone cheatline livery is great, I prefer the 1971 version due to the "Hockey Stick" cheatline.

1971 livery:

Interestingly enough, this is the NZ901 accident aircraft. I chose this photo because you can see one of my favorite airline/aircraft combos (KLM 747) in the background.

1983 redesign:

SXDFC wrote:

I’ll probably get hate on this one..

Spirit (Yellow livery with raccoon mask) A320neo

The Spirit A320neo looks great IMHO. Although it look even better with the raccoon mask.

BoeingERJ1000 wrote:

seat1a wrote:

Great topic - and that's a lot of planes to get through!

Sorry for the late reply, but thanks! And yeah, this took quite a while to make.

seat1a wrote:

A few favorites come to mind:
Braniff 727
Braniff Calder DC8
United Saul Bass 727
AIr New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines 767
Air New Zealand with two-tone blue cheat lines DC10
TWA with the globe on the tail 707
Aer Lingus BAC111
New Air France on anything Airbus (320,350,220)
Air France Concorde

Honorable mention: ANA 727

Personally I don't like the ANA livery nor UA's Saul Bass scheme (although I do love the look of the 727), but I agree with the other choices.
Regarding Air New Zealand, while the two-tone cheatline livery is great, I prefer the 1971 version due to the "Hockey Stick" cheatline.

1971 livery:

Interestingly enough, this is the NZ901 accident aircraft. I chose this photo because you can see one of my favorite airline/aircraft combos (KLM 747) in the background.

1983 redesign:

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Agree on the Air New Zealand hockey stick cheatline - great call out. The livery on their DC8 was fine, too. Any thoughts on the 737s that flew for NAC in New Zealand? They were 'plain-Jane' - but nice.

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707: The Air-India 707 livery was one of the best for that plane.....there were many others that looked really good on the 707 such as SQ, the old BOAC, QA, LH, TWA., Kuwait Airways, and a host of others....