Heritage aircraft

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B-25 Mitchell, believed to be a B-25J, a historic aircraft at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA

A Scandinavian Airlines Airbus A319 retrojet

Heritage aircraft is a term applied to both old aircraft from preceding generations with correct period aircraft livery (called a historic aircraft) and currently in-service aircraft painted in a historic livery (called a retrojet aircraft).^[1]

1 Historic aircraft
2 Retrojet aircraft
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Historic aircraft

Historic aircraft are generally located in an aviation museum. However the term is evolving to include modern aircraft painted in a historic livery still in service with airlines.

[edit] Retrojet aircraft

A retrojet is a modern aircraft with a historic livery frequently used to commemorate and celebrate the history of an airline and advertise airline itself. A retrojet scheme is usually a livery that had been disused for at least twenty years. Retrojets became a widespread phenomenon in the late 1990s.^{[citation needed]}