FSX Canadian Airlines Airbus A380

This is a repaint for Project Airbus’ Airbus A380 in a fictional Canadian Airlines livery.  Includes base model, high-quality textures, and updated VC.

Mask Options

This livery also includes cockpit window “Mask Options”. Please see the included readme in the .zip file for instructions for applying these options.

Canadian Airlines never flew the A380, as by the time the company was absorbed by Air Canada in 1999, the aircraft did not exist. The largest aircraft flown by Canadian Airlines was the Boeing 747-427. However, in our new universe, Canadian Airlines has taken delivery of one single Airbus A380, available to fly any route of your choice. It flies under the registration C-CSPN and the tail number 383.

Livery Info

Upon its founding in 1987, Canadian Airlines revealed its new livery using the colours light grey, dark grey, navy blue, and red. The paint scheme was an adaptation of the recently introduced livery from its predecessor Canadian Pacific Airlines. The lower half of the aircraft’s body was navy blue, topped with light grey and red stripes, while the tail was blue, with approximately one-third taken up by the carrier’s new logo. The new Canadian Airlines logo was a combination of Canadian Pacific’s five grey stripes, representing the five continents served by the carrier. Over these stripes was a thick, bright red chevron. The chevron was a simplification of the Pacific Western Airlines logo. The chevron was placed over the stripes, which then represented “Wings over 5 continents”. It was also an ingenious and subtle way to represent the takeover of CP by PWA. The same logo, in a square form, became a clever alternative to a true bilingual name on the fuselage replacing the French “e”, and the third “a” in English (Canadian/Canadien).