Ugliest airplane in your logbook

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Here's mine. Belongs to a company I worked for one summer in college. Flew it around a bit on company errands. FSS briefer when filing a flight plan: "It's WHAT color?"
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Didn't log this, because I wasn't appropriately rated at the time. (See previous 46 threads concerning logging sole-manip PIC time.)

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Didn't log this, because I wasn't appropriately rated at the time. (See previous 46 threads concerning logging sole-manip PIC time.)

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The inherent sexiness of the King Air takes some of the ugliness out of that paint job.

Oh, and this one, before someone lost control and flipped it over into a ditch (nobody hurt, but they lost a brand new engine).

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I have got about 4000 hours in this airplane, flew it for over 10 years. At least the last 500 or so it had a better paint job, white with several red stripes. First time I noticed it was at DCA. I told the captain that I was flying with “What an ugly airplane wouldn’t you hate flying it". About 6 months later I was flying it with a 50% pay rise and it looked great to me then. Lemon yellow with sable brown striping.

The Vette was mine and it looked wonderful, better without the hardtop. 66 red on red with a 427.

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I have got about 4000 hours in this airplane, flew it for over 10 years. At least the last 500 or so it had a better paint job, white with several red stripes. First time I noticed it was at DCA. I told the captain that I was flying with “What an ugly airplane wouldn’t you hate flying it". About 6 months later I was flying it with a 50% pay rise and it looked great to me then. Lemon yellow with sable brown striping.

The Vette was mine and it looked wonderful, better without the hardtop. 66 red on red with a 427.

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uhh, traffic 4 o'clock nine miles in sight.
 
The ugliest and by FAR the worst airplane I've ever flown.
 

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That was the reason it was painted yellow. The owners wife had read that yellow stood out more than any other color, to avoid midair’s.
Hughes Airwest repainted their entire fleet yellow after an F-4 hit one of their DC-9s way back when. Then they ran with the whole "Top Banana in the West" slogan. Giggity.

I can't say I've really flown anything ugly other than the typical ratty 150/172. I have to say.... that T-41 (hah, who am I kidding, 172) actually looks kind of badass.
 
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