This Praetor 600 Paint Job Is Not for a Packers Fan

With its green and yellow livery, a recently completed custom West Star Aviation paint job is not for a Green Bay Packers fan, officials of the MRO confirm. But it is the MRO’s first paint finish on a factory-delivered Embraer Praetor 600.

“It’s always exciting to be involved in the custom designs we offer, especially when it’s a clean slate straight from the factory,” said West Star Grand Junction (Colorado) Embraer/Textron program manager Tom Modrick. “We believe our customers continue to select West Star for their aviation needs because of our wide range of services, including custom jobs such as this one.”

West Star Grand Junction technical sales manager Joe Carr told AIN the customer specifically requested his company to paint the livery on the new, super-midsize twin. And the customer, he added, was not an individual, but a company requesting those specific colors and not because of an affinity for a certain NFL team.

But because there were three additional colors involved, the painting process took longer than normal. “What we do is paint that green on there and then we paint the black and yellow,” Carr said. “And see how those stripes lay over the white and green? That takes some time because you have to have some pretty good cure time before you can tape over that.”

Westar’s facility at Grand Junction Regional Airport (GJT) has four paint booths and two strip bays. At any given time it paints between five and eight airplanes. Last year, it painted 126, he added.

It is one of four West Star MRO sites with paint capabilities, along with: East Alton, Illinois (ALN); Chattanooga, Tennessee (CMA); and Perryville, Missouri (PCD).