Mad Dog Central 1: An Americas MD-80 Wishlist

The MD-80 has not had a lot of love in 400 scale. There have been over 100 made, albeit that isn't 100 individual liveries and the moulds are all obsolescent or just not very good. In fact, the range of schemes that has been made has been low because there have been multiples of the same scheme quite a bit. There are literally tons of MD-80s that deserve to get made so here in part 1 I take a look at just those from the Americas.

With the new NG MD-80 samples close to ready a wishlist is worthwhile and illustrating how many MD-80 options there are here are 88 possibilities just from the New World organised as follows:

• American Airlines
• Trans World Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Continental, Frontier & New York Air
• Alaska Airlines
• Republic & Northwest
• PSA & USAir
• Other 80s US Airlines
• Other 90s US Airlines
• Argentina & Brasil
• Venezuela
• Colombia
• Central America & Caribbean
• Mexico

NOTE: Many of these airlines operated both pointy and screwdriver tailcone MD-80s at various points so there are often two versions that could be made for a single scheme.

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PROTOTYPE

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AMERICAN AIRLINES

There are a surprising number of MD-80 livery variants worn by AA Mad Dogs.

Below are 6 of the 7 variants:

Scheme 1:

Scheme 2:

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Scheme 3 (ex-Reno Air):

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Scheme 4 (No Super 80):

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Scheme 6 (Grey nosecone pointy tail):

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Scheme 7 (Grey nosecone screwdriver tail):

aeroprints.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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TRANS WORLD AIRLINES

TWA also had several scheme variants:

Black anti-glare

Jon Proctor (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

No anti-glare

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Wings of Pride

​Globe scheme:

TWA LLC

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

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DELTA AIR LINES

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

James Willamor from Raleigh, NC, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Cory W. Watts from Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, FRONTIER & NEW YORK AIR

Black meatball

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

JetPix (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

AlainDurand (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

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ALASKA AIRLINES

Ted Quackenbush (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Airwim (GFDL or GFDL ), via Wikimedia Commons

Speech bubble scheme

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REPUBLIC & NORTHWEST AIRLINES

G B_NZ, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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PSA / USAir

Ted Quackenbush (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Ted Quackenbush (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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OTHER 80s US AIRLINES

Ted Quackenbush (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Jon Proctor (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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OTHER 90s US AIRLINES

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Ken Fielding/https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Brian McDonough, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Konstantin von Wedelstaedt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Richard Silagi, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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ARGENTINA & BRASIL

Kambui, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Gary Watt (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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VENEZUELA

Eduard Marmet, CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons

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COLOMBIA

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Ward Callens (GFDL or GFDL ), via Wikimedia Commons

Juan David Diazgranados Lacouture (Diazgranados SSC), CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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CENTRAL AMERICA / CARIBBEAN

Peter Bakema (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Terrazzo, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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MEXICO

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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