Alliance Airlines celebrated the 100th years of the Royal Australian Air Force on March 31, 2021 with this special scheme featuring some of the major types in use with the Air Force since 1921 (C17, P-8, F-18, F-111, Canberra, Spitfire & S.E.5 biplane. Note the silhouette of a F-35A speeding through the 100 logo.
The Reds is the rugby union team for the Australian state of Queensland. Alliance Airlines and the club announced a 3-year partnership in January 2021.
This livery is an inverted variant of the Kingford Smith livery unveiled on VH-FGB. It commemorates the solo flight from Australia to England performed by Kingford Smith in a Avro Avian biplane, Southern Cross Minor, in the fall of 1931. He intended to gain publicity with an immediate return flight to Australia, but the return trip was abandoned on medical advice.
In 1919 the Australian government offered a prize of £A10,000 for the first Australians in a British aircraft to fly from Great Britain to Australia. The Macpherson Smith brothers won the race with a modified Vickers Vimy bomber in late 1919.
Alliance Airlines is a partner of charity BCNA. This standalone livery replaced the small titles that could be seen on company Fokker 70 VH-JNB since 2015.
These short-lived stickers were added when the aircraft flew for the 2018 State of Origin series, the 37th annual best-of-three series between the Queensland and New South Wales rugby league teams.
Famous Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly headlined a special charity event in Dirranbandi on June 2, aimed at specifically supporting the South West Queensland town’s school students.
Following Qantas in 2003, Alliance also celebrated Charles Kingsford Smith 's maiden Pacific crossing onboard the 'Southern Cross' Fokker F.VII between May 31 and June 09, 1928. Alliance Airlines is headquartered in Brisbane Eagle Farm, precisely where "Smithy" landed its Fokker aircraft in 1928. This aircraft retraced the final part of that historic flight and landed at Brisbane Airport at 10:50 am, exactly 90 years to the minute of the historic Southern Cross land. Alliance is also a sizeable Fokker aircraft operator. The airline also teamed up with Newstead Brewing to offer an exclusive Alliance Airlines beer onboard its aircraft - the “Smithy’s FGB” Golden Ale.
In June 2017 Alliance Air flew the Queensland Maroons rugby team to Mackay for their Fan Day 2017. Very short-lived stickers were added on the port side of a F100 for the occasion.
In June 2016 Alliance Air flew the Queensland Maroons rugby team to Gladstone for their 2016 Fan Day. Very short-lived stickers were added on the port side of a F100 for the occasion.
Alliance Airlines is a partner of Australia's BCNA. The decal was originally added for the month of October to raise awareness of Breast Cancer Awareness Month but was in the end was kept permanently. Note the dark blue basic Ford Motor Company belly paint. In 2019 a standalone BCNA livery was unveiled on VH-NUU and JFB was repainted in the new livery without stickers.
Alliance Air flew the North Queensland Cowboys Rugby League team and supporters to the NFL Grand Final on October 4, 2015 when the team won the competition. Three F100 had small stickers added for the occasion.
In early October 2015 Alliance Airlines flew this Fokker 100 full of Brisbane people to Longreach on behalf of Ubet to help raise funds for the Western Queensland Drought Appeal.
Kate, Tim and Marty is an Australian drive radio show broadcast on Nova FM between 4 and 6pm. On the occasion of the release of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the team broadcast from this airplane with guests attending the show also onboard. Nova titles remained a little longer than the rest of the titles.