Soon in Belgrade: Air Serbia with the image of Nikola Tesla

The wide-body passenger aircraft, named after "Nikola Tesla", will have a different visual identity from the rest of the fleet of the Serbian national airliner and will be adorned with a stylized figure of the most famous Serbian scientist and inventor.

The latest addition to the Air Serbia fleet has got its unique look in Shannon, Ireland. The painting process, during which 22 different colors and about 250 liters of paint were used, required eight days of uninterrupted work in three shifts, with teams of about ten people per shift, Air Serbia announced.
The modification of the existing Air Serbia design will be applied exclusively on this aircraft, which adorns dynamic lines, as symbols of movement and speed, with the main detail on the vertical stabilizer in the form of the figure of Nikola Tesla. The recognizable blue, as part of the corporate identity of the national airline, was chosen as the basic color of Tesla's character, for whose graphic display a total of 19 different tones of this color were used.
"The arrival of the Airbus A330 in Belgrade is an extremely important event for Air Serbia. We are extremely honored that our plane will bear the name of Nikola Tesla. The fact that he was a great genius coming from this part of the world, but that he spent most of his life in New York, further emphasizes the symbolism of his character on the plane connecting Belgrade and this famous metropolis. It is one of our key routes and we are sure that the arrival of a new plane will contribute to even better travel experience for our passengers, as well as the success of the route, which connects this entire region with the United States," Duncan Naismith, Air Serbia CEO stated.
Manufactured in 2008, the new aircraft is a year younger than...