Yankee Alberts: US Boeing 737-300s

Usage of the Panda Models 737-300 remains rather disappointing as it has only recently been used for a handful of models and most of those have been Asian retailer exclusives. What have been ignored are the large number of European and American 737-300s available to be made. Back in April 2020 I did a wishlist for the Europeans and now I turn to the States.

It is rather disappointing that since I published the European 737-300 wishlist back in April 2020 not a single one of the models has been made. However, given that there are multiple US and Canadian stores now working with Panda (El Aviador, Waffle Collectibles, Prairie Diecast and RM Model Store) I have some small hope that a list of US series 300s won't be as ignored as the Euro list.

Holiday: A Euro 737-300 Wishlist

Coverage of US 737-300s hasn't been awful - thanks largely to Aeroclassics using the Panda mould in the past. They produced 24 737-300s including some really sought after and nice models such as USAir and Piedmont. That doesn't mean there isn't still scope for plenty more US series 300s.

Additionally, Gemini Jets and JC Wings have been using their 737-300 a little in recent years but sadly the mould isn't great and some of the releases have been disappointing (United Saul Bass) or copies of already released Aeroclassics versions (USAir, American, Western).

Several of the older Gemini releases (mainly Southwest examples) use the Phoenix mould, which frankly is a piece of poo, so you can't even count on them. Lastly there are a variety of old Herpa and Dragon Wings versions - none of which are particularly great.

The result is that of the 70 or so North American 737-300s at least half of them are obsolete or just unimpressive. Others remain unmade altogether. Here are over 50 contenders from the US alone.

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1980s and Trunk Airlines

It is surprising that so many of these haven't been made or have only been made eons ago by Dragon Wings (aside from the Saul Bass United made recently very poorly by Gemini). I am especially surprised nobody has attempted a CO 737-300!

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

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

JetPix (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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Southwest Airlines

There have been 11 Southwest 737-300s made and Aeroclassics covered the standard schemes, however the only special schemes made using the Desert Gold scheme were a pair of old Herpas. Meanwhile all the wingletted Canyon Blue Gemini versions use the horrible Phoenix mould. So there is plenty of scope for proper treatments of the following:

Lonestar One N352SW

California One N609SW

Arizona One N383SW

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

Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Tomás Del Coro from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Silver One N629SW

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

Eddie Maloney from North Las Vegas, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Triple Crown N647SW

Sunil Gupta (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

Shamu One N334SW

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Frontier Airlines

Frontier operated 19 737-300s over the years with their varied animal tails. Not all wore different animals on each side but most did. So far only Dragon Wings has attempted any of these excellent schemes.

• EI-CHH Mallard / Mustang
• N303FL Grizzly Cub / Hawk
• N304FL Moose / Red Wolf
• N305FA Canadian Lynx
• N306FL Snow Hare / Pelican
• N307FL Dolphin / Dolphin
• N308FL Pronghorn / Pronghorn
• N309FL Puffin / Puffin
• N310FL Eagle / Eagle
• N311FL Fawn / Fawn
• N312FL M. Ram / M. Ram
• N313FL Bear / Bear
• N314FL Lynx / Cat
• N315FL Puffin / Puffin
• N316FL Fox / Wolf
• N317FL Bison Head / Bison
• N318FL Heron / Snow Egret
• N319FL Fox / Fox
• N578US Kit Fox Cubs / Polar Bear Cubs

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

planephotoman, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Anthony92931, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

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Western Pacific​

West Pac briefly lit up the skies with their logojets. There have been a few in 400 scale made but the only decent effort was the Colorado Springs version by Aeroclassics leaving all of these open for production:

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

Richard Silagi (GFDL or GFDL ), via Wikimedia Commons

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

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90s Startups

Torsten Maiwald (GFDL 1.2 or GFDL 1.2 ), via Wikimedia Commons

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Summary

In terms of airlines this is actually quite a short list but in terms of liveries it is much longer. I think many of these schemes would sell very well and many are made more viable by how similar they are too each other. Let's hope that unlike the Euro list this one gets more traction.