AircraftColor’s drawings appear on the Website in color. Final plans provided to paint shop include details and plan view.

We recently walked the ramp at a mid-sized muni airport and drew this conclusion about airplane paint jobs: Most are workmanlike if ordinary, a small number are abysmally ugly and an even smaller number are exceptionally good looking. The reason is that even good paint shops concentrate on competent application at the expense of not straying far from conservative, factory based color schemes.

Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. A couple of years ago, we saw a banana-yellow Bonanza with black and silver trim that made us want to hunt down the owner and ask him: what in the name of God’s creation were you thinking? Clearly, some owners…