Boeing B.737-301 (c/n 23230/1115)
Western Pacific Airlines
Colorado Springs-Municipal (COS/KCOS)
13 October 1995
This 1985-model Boeing 737-300 flew with Piedmont Airlines and USAir before joining Colorado Springs-based Western Pacific Airlines as N949WP. It was one of 19 of the type operated, and many of them had a special colour scheme. Western Pacific somehow invented advertising on planes, creating the new term "logojet" at that time.
N949WP was painted in this bright yellow colours and featuring The Simpsons family from the animated sitcom of the same name, created for FOX network and premiering in December 1989. Prominently featuring Marge Simpson and her beehive hairstyle in fin, N949WP was captured during pushback from its gate, getting ready for the next flight.
Starting operations in early 1995, Western Pacific unfortunately folded its wings in spring 1998, and its colorful 737 vanished basically overnight. N949WP was acquired by Southwest Airlines, but retired in 2016 and moved to China, where it is now an instructional airframe at Henan.
