Originally Posted by
ND76
As far as PanAm is concerned, there is a 727 out there with their classic livery, but it is owned by a railroad company which bought the PanAm trademarks (these are used on its trains, which roll in the state of Maine).
Yeah I forgot to mention that I was pretty sure the railroad owned all of Pan Am's old trademarks (note the locomotives use the globe as well as the pre-globe logo) because DL never bought PA, so DL would have to license anything Pan Am they wanted to use. Since all of the other airlines precedent to today's DL were acquired through merger or purchase, I would guess DL has full rights to the names/logos/paint schemes.
It would be fun too if DL would paint a plane in each of their and NW's jet-age liveries (how many have there been?).