Airbus A330

SAA have leased a total of 4 aircraft of this type over a two year period. The first two were leased from Tam Brazil for the period from 2002 to 2003 whilst the second pair were leased from British Midland from 2003 until June 2004.

The aircraft were not registered in South Africa and carried their normal registrations

Normal passenger load: up to 440 although 335 is typical

PT-MVA and PT-MVB

G-WWBB, WWBD

Modelling

The following kits have been produced over the years that will allow the modeller to build a model of this aircraft.

Revell have a 1/144^th scale kit of an A330-300 in their range. This could be used as a basis for a conversion to an A330-200.

Colours

Scheme one

The first two aircraft leased were finished in extremely plain colours of a plain white fuselage with the South African logo painted on it. No tail fin colours were applied to these aircraft. One of the aircraft, PT-MVA appeared very scruffy due the over painting of the TAM logos with a shade of white paint that appeared more greyish than the rest of the fuselage. The other aircraft does not appear to have suffered this.

Scheme two

In contrast the aircraft leased from BML were very smart in their standard post 1997 colours consisting of a white fuselage with South African logos and national flag tail colours. No colours on the wing tip fins. The aircraft type name was carried on rear fuselage just forward of rear door and registration preceded the national flag level with the bottom of the rear door.

Decals

At the time of writing no dedicated A330-200 decals for a SAA aircraft have been produced. It should be possible to adapt those produced for the A340-600 to your model