Delta Air Lines Unveils Unique Centennial Livery On A350-900

As Delta ushers in its centennial year, the carrier unveiled a pair of special edition liveries on the A350-900 and A321neo, commemorating its hundredth year of flight.

Centennial Livery On Delta Air Lines A350-900 + A321neo

Delta traces its origins to March 2, 1925. On that date, the world’s first aerial crop-dusting company and largest privately-owned aircraft fleet in the U.S. incorporated as Huff Daland Dusters began carrying mail. Three years later, C.E. Woolman arranged the purchase of Huff Daland and renamed the carrier Delta Air Service for the Mississippi Delta region it served (the new airline was incorporated on December 3, 1928). In 1929, Delta offered its first commercial service (from Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi via Shreveport and Monroe, Lousiana).

Over the weekend, Delta held a 100th birthday celebration at the Delta Flight Museum in its Atlanta hub. It was during that party that the new livery was officially unveiled. As Delta describes it, its Centennial livery” honors a century of innovation, resilience and the people who built Delta into the airline it is today.” The livery features “swooping details, a bold 100 emblem” and per Delta, the “first-ever silver supergraphic.”

The Centennial Gala on March 15, 2025, also featured not only current CEO Ed Bastian, but former CEOs Ron Allen, Leo Mullin, and Richard Anderson. Live entertainment was provided by Jon Batiste (and I must admit his Beethoven Blues album has been at the top of my playlist for weeks…). Andrew Jackson Young Jr. delivered the invocation.

Personally, I’d love to see some heritage liveries during this centennial year. The classic Delta widget livery from 1962 to 1997 is my favorite…there’s something timeless about that. The white cap livery in the late 1940s to early 1960s was also attractive, as was the classic red, white, and blue livery that debuted in 1940.

What do you think of the new Delta centennial livery?

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