California Pacific Airlines debuts its first ERJ-170

If the livery of California Pacific Airlines doesn’t look familiar to you, that is probably because the airline is not operational yet.

California Pacific Airlines first Embraer ERJ-170-100LR (c/n 17000006) N176EC arrives at McClellan-Palomar Airport (CLD/KCLD) on July 6, 2012.

(Photo California Pacific Airlines) 

California Pacific Airlines was founded in 2009 and they plan to start revenue flights by the end of 2012. Earlier this week, their first of four Embraer E-170se, was brought to their homebase at McClellan-Palomar Airport (CLD).

CLD is located in Carlsbad, CA, just north of San Diego. They plan to fly to Oakland, Sacramento, and San Jose, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta.

The airline will have their aircraft configured in a two class lay-out with a total of 72 seats on the inside and an impressive livery on the outside. Their original livery plan was not as nice as this one and with the shades of blue and the wave on the tail, I really like what they ended up with.

This first aircraft for the carrier has an interesting history. It started life as a Embraer demonstration aircraft (PT-SVD) and performed a flight demo at the 2003 Paris Air Show. The aircraft was later delivered to MAT-Macedonian Airlines as PT-SVD becoming the carriers first of the type. In 2006 the aircraft found its way to Cirrus Airlines as D-ALIA and was operated by the carrier until late 2011.  

(Seattlepi)