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  1. "Quetzalcoatl" livery for the LES DC3 /C47

    "Quetzalcoatl" livery for the LES DC3 /C47
    This is a livery-paint made by Leen "Flybike" de Jager for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3.
    Not just a normal average paint , no, this time a real thrill for those who want someting "obscure and spectacular"
    This paint depicts (more or less) the N9012 in a livery for "Bird of the Sun" Air Travel Club.(1978)
    Special for this livery is the fact both sides of the plane have different textures.
    Both textures show the Maya-god "Quetzalcoatl" ( serpent-alike-symbol) , on the right with an animal-head ,on the left with a more human face , both known from the Maya-culture.
    Thats why I named this paint Quetzalcoatl.
    As usual this skin-package also includes customised cockpit/cabin texturing and normalmapping.
    New for this paint-job is the addition of some "virtual-cabin-windows"(exterior effect only)
    How to install:
    Just unzip Quetzalcoatl.zip in a temp folder.
    Start reading Quetzalcoatl Readme.PDF carefully FIRST.
    I really hope you`ll enjoy this very special and rare livery as much as I did during the extremely time-consuming process of making it.
    Cheers
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl


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  2. 118527 Jiminy Cricket for the LES DC3

    118527 Jiminy Cricket
    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
    Paint made by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This paint depicts (more or less,within the limitations of the model and its painter) the C47-D ,118527 "Jiminy Cricket "
    Historical Note:
    "Jiminy Cricket" is depicted as it flew for the Sicily operation in improvised night camouflage.
    It was one of the original 52 C-47s that deployed to Egypt with the 316thTCG in December 1942.
    "Jiminy Cricket" was one of the first from the 316th Sq. ATC, to visit Project 19, delivering worn out parts and returning rebuilt
    engines to the RAF.
    It eventually took part in the invasion of Sicily, where, the pilot, Sgt. George Quisenberry received wounds from German FLAK.
    The shell destroyed the nose of the Aircraft, knocking out all instruments except the stand by compass.
    Jiminy carried the crew back with nothing but the moon and the sticking standby compass.
    Jiminy Cricket was repaired and served through May 1, 1947, then was "salvaged"
    The skin-set includes cockpit- and (freighter-) cabin textures as well.
    Passenger-seats, luggage-racks ,airco etc.removed from the plane.( its a freighter now !!)
    Livery dedicated panel and cockpit colors
    How to install:
    Just unzip118527JiminyCricket.zip into a temp. folder , and start reading the readme file.
    Have fun and enjoy,
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  3. Aer Lingus DC-3

    The Aer Lingus EI-ACE Douglas DC-3 was the company's second oldest Dakota. Very little information about this aircraft is known. According to it's serial number, cn 42956 was sold to Royal Nepal Airlines. On July 12, 1969, while on a flight from Katmandu to Simra, the DC-3 collided with trees on a cloud covered mountain summit. The plane was 10 miles from its destination when it crashed. Weather was poor at the time of the accident. All aboard lost their lives that day.
    Installation:
    Place the complete folder (Aer Lingus DC-3) into your X-aviation--->Douglas DC-3--->liveries directory. On your next stratup, you should see the livery along with the others you have installed.

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  4. Aero Libertad DC-3

    The Aero Libertad DC-3 flew until the early to mid 1970s, serving the remote regions of Mexico. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
    Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.

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  5. Aero Oy for LES DC-3

    Aero Oy livery for Leading Edge Simulations DC-3

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  6. Aeroflot for LES DC-3

    Aeroflot livery from 50s for Lisunov Li-2 which is russian made dc-3

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  7. Aerotur DC-3

    The Aerotur DC-3 flew until the early to mid 1970s, serving the remote regions of Mexico. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
    Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.

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  8. Air France -KLM "Double-Livery" for the LES DC3

    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
    Paint made by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This paint depicts (more or less,within the limitations of the model and its painter) the DC3 F-AZTE ,flown by
    Air France/KLM.
    This plane flew under the french registration F-AZTE ( very small, under the H-stab ) .
    On the right side of the plane there is a retro Air France livery with the registration F-BBBE while on the left side of the plane we see a retro KLM livery registrated PH-PBA.
    This plane really existed in this livery and was used for for promotional purposes
    The skin-set includes cockpit and cabin textures as well.
    Livery dedicated panel and cockpit colors.
    Cabin seats and color more or less depicting the original one.
    Passenger-cabin-ceiling without airco-units , just like the original old Dakota-ceiling.
    Night-time navigation trough the dome enabled. ( you`ll have to use your own sextant )
    How to install:
    Just unzip F-AZTE.zip into a temp. folder , and start reading the readme file.
    Enjoy
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl



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  9. Airborne Imaging for LES DC-3

    N737H.ZIP , Airborne Imaging livery for the LES DC3, by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3.
    This paint depicts (more or less) the DC3 N737H wich flies for Airborne Imagine Inc. USA,wich is a leader in the airborne-data-aquisition.
    How to install:
    Just unzip the N737H.zip in a temp folder , you`ll find a folder named Airborne_Imaging , two files and a README FIRST.PDF.
    Start reading this PDF carefully!!
    Please follow these instructions exactly.
    Enjoy,
    Leen de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  10. American Airlines Douglas Sleeper Traveller for LES DC3.

    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
    Paint made by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    Photo-research and "mental coaching" by Harvey Stein
    Thanks Harvey ,for encouraging me to lay my hands on this fabulous Douglas Sleeper Traveller !!!!
    This paint depicts (more or less,within the limitations of the model) the DST , Douglas Sleeper Traveller , wich was in fact an enlarged version of the DC2 , made by Douglas on request by American Airlines. ( round 1935 )
    After a production of about seven DST`s the plane was rebaptised and became the name Douglas Commercial nr 3 , the DC3 was born and a new era in aviation started.
    So we can say, this is a kinda "Mama-Dakota"
    The original model had wing-registration , due to the limitations of the texture-mapping of this model , this could not be reproduced. ( grrrrrrrrr..........!!)
    The skin-set includes cockpit and cabin textures as well.
    New features : Main wingfairing more visible ( texture and normals) , new right-side passengers-door AND sleper-windows.
    How to install:
    Just unzip DST-NC28325.zip into a temp. folder , and start reading the readme file.
    Enjoy
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  11. Bonanza Air Lines - N491

    This is a mostly authentic recreation of N491's livery from somewhere between 1949 (when Bonanza Air Lines started operations) and 1963 (when they stopped flying DC-3s). It is only "mostly authentic" because there are not very many reference photos available, and not from all angles, and the ones I do have are not dated.
    There are a few technical bits and bobs that aren't right, especially with the reflections/normal maps, as I didn't want to fight with it any longer and the paint kit is lacking. But I think it's 90% there! Please report any glaring issues you find.
    Bonanza flew DC-3s in the Southwest/West USA in the 1950s. Included in the zip file are a couple of images of the January 1959 timetable brochure, which shows all their routes at the time.
     
    As with all LES DC-3 liveries, there is both a livery folder (put in your liveries directory) and an "output" folder, which contains the ini files required for airframe management. Drag this output folder into your X-Plane root directory, or copy the ini files within manually to Output/DC3/Modern[and/or Classic].

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  12. Braniff N25672 for the LES DC3

    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager, LES DC3/C47-livery nr 8 * ,
    This paint depicts (more or less) the DC3, N25672 in the Braniff livery.
    The original model had wing-registration and Braniff-text on the wings, due to the limitations of the mapping of this model, this could not be reproduced.
    As Braniff was the first (or at least one of the first) airliners making commercial flights with the Douglas DC3, this was a paint wich had to be done ( I was told ;-).
    How to install:
    Just unzip Braniff.zip to a temp folder and start reading the Readme.PDF carefully
    Enjoy,
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://http://www.flybike-paints.nl

    *previously published LES DC3/C47 liveries by Leen de Jager :
    Flottilje 56S French Navy
    Airborne-Imaging
    Royal Australian Air Force
    Fuerza Aerea Argentina
    Quetzalcoatl = double-scheme livery <->
    Classic Air/Alrodo = double-scheme livery <->
    G-AMSV Air Atlantique anniversary 50th year Dakota

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  13. Buffalo C-GPNR DC3 / C47

    Buffalo C-GPNR ("Buffalo-Joe" McBryan`s favorit plane) for the LES DC3/C47
    Probably the most famous flying C47 these days, we even can say she is a movie-star.
    Making a repaint wich already exists is always tricky , people start to compare and gues which one is the best.
    Be assured I do not like to see it as a competition.
    Even more tricky is making a repaint based on a default livery wich comes with the aircraft ,
    Normally I do not make paints on request , let alone ,one based on an existing defeault livery..
    For this "movie-star" I am happy to make an exception.
    Taking the default LES DC3 in its default Buffalo livery to start with was quiet logic.
    In the end not much of this original livery has left the way it was , shapes were changed , text reshaped and logos reversed.
    Neverteless there are some lines and shapes wich I did not enterely by myself.
    My main goal was to reproduce a C-GPNR wich comes as close to reality as I am abble to make it.
    Big problem is the fact the plane changed its looks so many times ( as all pretty girls do ) , its hard to tell exactly how and what.
    Outside made close to reality.
    Cockpit colors giving a C-GPNR experience.
    Cabin ,giving a Buffalo-Air feeling.
    I hope you`ll enjoy this flying legend.
    Leen de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl




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  14. C47 Fuerza Aerea Argentina for the LES DC3

    FUERZA.zip , C47 Fuerza Aerea Argentina livery by Leen de Jager, for the LES DC3.
    As all my paints for the LES DC3 do, this livery also comes with a customised cockpit-color-scheme, including custom-normalmapping.
    Just unzip FUERZA.zip into a temp folder and read Fuerza Aerea Argentina Readme First.pdf carefully.
    I hope you`ll enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed painting it.
    Regards
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  15. C47-D-Flottille 56S nr 87

    C47-D-Flottille 56S nr 87, livery by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This repaint is inspired by the French Navy livery for the C47 D It depicts ( more or less ) the nr 87 at the end of its career with the 52S Flottille.
    Unless her age, she was a reliable workhorse.
    These days she doesn't fly anymore but she still exists, standing at the entrance of the Nimes Naval base.
    As I wanted to give an over-all impression of the bird I aimed my brushes on the outside and to the interior, including the panel and cockpit as well.
    Did some additional bumpmapping (editing the normals accordingly the changes to the exterior).
    At the last moment a found a French crew, willing to fly this bird to you.
    Merci beaucoup mes amis
    I hope you`ll all enjoy this skin as much as I enjoyed making it.
    Leen de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  16. Cruzeiro do Sul

    The Cruzeiro DC-3 flew until the early 1970s, serving the remote regions of Brazil. It is a recreation, as close as the old photos allowed. It also serves as a tribute to the Leading Edge Simulations remarkable DC-3. You need to own the payware aircraft in order to use these textures.
    Finally, I salute the crews who flew on its wings, so many years ago.

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  17. DC-3 Rosinenbomber

    This a livery for the LES Douglas DC3.
    First of all i want to thank LES for their model, it's really one of my favorites.
    A very good model like this inspires me (like others before). My intention was to make it look a little more like the real thing by adding the lines of joints and rivets, more or less accurate, like original aircraft (yes, maybe that's typical german …).
    I also created normal-maps, made by using the try and error method and looking how it works. Just after work was done, i read here in the forums that there a plug-ins available to create them. But i think it works pretty well, so i'll leave them for now.
    For the first try i chose the Berlin "Rosinenbomber" (which is already included in the models liveries pack) as i found a lot of pictures available on the web.
    I tried to depict it most accurately to the original airplane (within the restrictions of the model and my skills) with it's dark silver paint covered all over, only the engine cowlings spared out in bare metal, it's black typeface and markings of emergency exits. With it's mostly plain livery it's just the joints and rivets (and the somewhat crumpled old surface) that characterize the appearance of the airplane much more than with a coloured one.
    Leen de Jager's impressing liveries with special cockpits included, made me add specific cockpit and cabin liveries too.
    The airplane was built in 1944 and served as an original "Rosinenbomber" in the Berlin Airlift, then flew under the registration G-AMPZ for various airlines in Britain, least Air Atlantique. From there it was transferred to Air Service Berlin where it was used for round trips.
    The military green cockpit of the former C47 was painted all over in black, cockpit walls without coverings, panel and all the rest looking somewhat stuck together- it appears a bit dark and disorderly, but that's what the original looks like, concerning to the pictures available.
    Unfortunately the plane had a crash landing in june 2011 after the crank shaft in the right engine broke shortly after take off. The crew succeeded in an emergency landing in a field nearby the new Berlin Schöneberg Airport construction site. Fortunately no one was seriously injured, but the plane was damaged and is being restored now. This takes more time and money as first estimated, but hopefully the airplane will fly for round trips over Berlin skies once again.
    How to install:
    Just unzip "D-CXXX Rosinenbomber" into a temp-folder an read the "_readme_first.pdf".
    Hope you enjoy it.
    Andreas

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  18. DC-3 v2 / That's All, Brother

    LIVERY PAINTERS INFO:
    Use this livery package as guidance on how to structure your paints. You can start from this package, and change the file and names where is needed.
    INSTALLATION:
    Extract the zip file and you'll get 2 folders; Aircraft and Output. Drop those folders in X-Plane's root directory, and make sure to merge folders.
    About the livery:
    That's All, Brother is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft (the military version of the civilian DC-3) that led the formation of 800 others from which approximately 13,000 U.S. paratroopers jumped on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the beginning of the liberation of France in the last two years of World War II. After the war it was returned to the United States and sold to civilian owners, eventually falling victim to neglect until it was found in an Oshkosh, Wisconsin, boneyard in 2015, facing imminent disassembly to be converted into a modern turbine aircraft. It has since been restored and is part of the Commemorative Air Force. (source: Wikipedia)
     

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  19. DC3 Swissair HB-IRD

    This is a livery-paint for the LES DC3.

    It depicts – more or less – within the restrictions of the model, the Swissair-DC3 HB-IRD.
    This was one of several ex-military DC-3/C-47s Swissair bought in 1946/47. It was built as C47B-5-DK with USAAF serial 43-48793 and flew for Swissair from 1946, used as a freighter, operating postal services. In 1950 it was sold to Israel where it was in service for Arkia and the Israeli Air Force. In 1999 it was transferred to the USA, registered as N472D and flew until 2006.

    Swissair planes in this period had an overall bare metal skin, logo and lettering on the fuselage and the red fin with the white swiss-cross. Although i'm aware that real reflections on a shiny bare metal skin can't be exactly reproduced in X-Plane, i tried to give it the appearance of such a surface. As just for a bare metal skin the lines of rivets and platelines determine the appearance a lot, my aim was to depict these as accurate as possible, added normal-maps to reproduce the uneven riveted surface and 3d-detail.

    As there's only one paint-file available for both of the wings, the big registration markings on top and underneath the wings can't be reproduced.

    The livery includes cockpit and cargo-cabin, adapted from the pictures available at the eth-library as far as possible within the possibilities of the model. Though colours are merely an assumption as these photos are black and white only.

    The plane in it's early configuration as shown here had no de-icing-systems, so be careful and avoid flying in icy weather conditions (markings on the related switches are removed - of course the system would work if you turn them on).

    I want to thank LES for their exceptionally model of the DC3 and most of all Leen de Jager, whose paintwork and discussions gave me a lot of hints and inspiration.

    How to install:
    Unzip "Swissair_HB-IRD" to a temp-folder and read the "_readme_first.pdf":

    Place folder named "Swissair_HB-IRD" in the liveries folder.

    For X-Plane 9:
    The cabin-textures are in 4K resolution for better detail, so if you use XP9, place the 2K cabin-files in the "Cabin_XP9_2K"-folder into the "Swissair_HB-IRD/objects"-folder, overwriting the existing 4K-ones.

    If you like to use the added propdisk with a slightly grey shade to reproduce the reflections of the metal propblades in front of dark backgrounds, just pace the file "LES_Douglas_DC-3(Wheels)_prop" in the "X-Aviation/Douglas DC-3" main-folder, overwriting the existing file (backup-file of the original included)

    Have fun and hope you enjoy it.

    Andreas

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  20. French Marine version for XPFR Caudron Simoun

    Simoun Caudron C-635 French Marine livery
    by Leen "Flybike" de Jager for the Simoun Coudron C-635 available on XPFR.(Coudron is with an "o" there)
    This livery is not exact depicting a (former) existing livery , due to a lack of photomaterial showing one.
    Nevertheless I tried to come close to something "looking genuine".
    How to install:
    Unzip French Marine into a temp folder and read the Caudron Simoun French Marine .pdf
    Enjoy
    Leen "Flybike"de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  21. G-AMSV Fifty Years Dakota

    G-AMSV Fifty Years Dakota, the famous 50th anniversary livery from Air Atlantique, an eyecatching livery for the Leading Edge Simulations DC3/C47.
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager, LES DC3/C47-livery nr 7 * ,
    Bringing:
    New auto-pilot front panel.
    No antenna -wire over the fuselage
    As usual a new unique colorsceme for the cockpit**.
    Re-worked tail-wheel.
    How to install:
    Just unzip anniversary.zip in to a temp folder and start reading the readme file carefully.
    NEW
    Extra NML file for the landing gear to remove the gloss from the tyres to be placed in the main objects folder and active for all liveries, including default and add-on..
    Enjoy,
    Leen "Flybike" de Jagerhttp://www.flybike-paints.nl
    *previous published LES DC3/C47 liveries by Leen de Jager :
    Flottilje 56S French Navy
    Airborne-Imaging
    Royal Australian Air Force
    Fuerza Aerea Argentina
    Quetzalcoatl = double-sceme livery <->
    Classic Air/Alrodo = double-sceme livery <->
    **
    If you like to have a photo, picture, logo whatever on a personalised panel, just mail me.


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  22. HB-ISC "Alrodo" for the LES DC3

    HB-ISC "Alrodo" for the LES DC3 , repaint by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3.
    This paint depicts (more or less) the DC3 HB-ISC aka "The Alrodo DC3"
    The plane was owned by " Classic Air" in Switserland and had the Classic Air livery on the right side and was advertising "Alrodo-perfumes" on the left side.
    As usual this livery includes an complete new color and upholstery for the cockpit, making this livery unique on the inside as well.
    The old magnetic compass broke down, I installed a newer one (still second-hand naturally).
    How to install:
    Just unzip Alrodo.zip in a temp folder and start reading the Alrodo Readme First.PDF carefully!!
    Enjoy,
    Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  23. Iberia EC-ADR livery for LES DC3

    This is a livery-paint for the Leading Edge Simulations Douglas DC3/C47.
    by Leen "Flybike" de Jager
    This paint depicts (more or less) the DC3/C47, Iberia EC-ADR .
    The original model had wing-registration, due to the limitations of the texture-mapping of this model, this could not be reproduced. ( grrrrrrrrr..........!!)
    Outside-looks based on sparse photo-material, cockpit inside, just one of the many variants (artists impression if you like) and not representing the original one. This might have been the cockpit when this aicraft had been restored by ................ instead of ending on a scrap-yard.
    She is not anymore, the memory however is immortal.
    Another tribute to the bird I fell in love with.
    How to install:
    Just unzip Iberia.zip to a temp. folder and start reading the Iberia Readme First PDF carefully.
    Enjoy,
    Leen de Jager
    http://www.flybike-paints.nl

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  24. JAL 1964 Tokyo Olympics livery PMDG DC-6

    Japan Airlines 1964 Tokyo Olympics livery. 
    Reg:JA6206

    The livery differs from the standard only with the Tokyo Olympics logo at the front and the Olympic Flame text at the rear right fuselage. 
    This aircraft carried the Olympic flame from Athens and was painted with the olympic additions for the duration of 1963-1964

    There are some interesting features to this livery. For example a very unique Douglas logo at the rear door.

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  25. Kar Air livery for LES DC-3

    Kar Air DC-3 OH-VKB is the second of four Kar Air dc3s which is preserved at Finnish Aviation Museum at Vantaa.

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