Southwest has retired the last aircraft bearing the iconic “Canyon Blue” livery in recent days, marking the end of one of the most traditional liveries in the United States.
According to Planespottters.net, the last aircraft still sporting the Canyon Blue paint job was a 737-700 jet with registration N786SW, retired on October 10, 2024, and being stored at Birmingham Shuttlesworth Airport (BHM), in Alabama.
With the Canyon Blue paint since 2001, the livery came to replace another emblematic paint, Desert Gold, which was part of the company from the 1970s.
Currently with the Heart livery, being the main visual identity since 2014, the company goes against the grain of the others, by incorporating the colors blue, red and yellow throughout the fuselage, far from the eurowhite style, a standard considered more economical in operations.
Including the end of the Canyon Blue, Southwest also intends to get rid of the Boeing 737-700 NG, being the company that has the largest fleet of the model, with around 366 aircraft, which will be replaced by the Boeing 737 MAX 7 and MAX 8.
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