Recently, I have found myself flying a lot in the beautiful South Pacific, and, in my constant quest for new or unusual aircraft, I have come across a variety of sources referencing the few airlines of the past of the island nation of Kiribati. (The home of Tarawa, the famous location of an invasion in WWII.)
With that said, I have been flying Marcel Kuhnt's brilliant Britten-Norman Islander & Trislander series, and have discovered an old airline that used to be in Kiribati that flew Trislanders, called Air Tungaru.
I hope to begin a repaint in their colors of the Trislander in the coming days, but I could use some help if anyone has any more info about them. I have found two average images on the net with them, but as you can see from the "photos", I could really use some more! (I can start the repaint fine with these, but I would like to know the exact registration (something -FCC?, along with the precise designs on the tail.)
I know what the bird image looks like and the sun is easy enough based on photos of their other aircraft, but the blue waves are different since they are on a white backdrop as opposed to the Air Kiribati modern aircraft (red backdrop).
Thanks for the help! And if anybody has any other good shots of small, obscure South Pacific Airlines, let me know! :)
-Sean
