Custom and bad. The font was probably optima. I had a bit of spare time and modified it below in an eps that should be close enough for a flight sim. Only took 5 mins to ruin :-)

This for the tail

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Optima lacks the little tentative serifs of the Pegasus logo.

The font I used is called Optima by Herman Zapf.
The registration font is likely not something you can get digitally. They look very constructed to me. You could buy fonts that would get you close (Interstate caps or FF DIN caps) but it's probably just as good to use plain old Arial.

You must have the flight sim bug pretty bad!

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Patricia, agreed. I seriously doubt the author of that logo was working from an actual font due to the general lack of basic modulation cohesion.

You could also use Eurostile for the registration, it has the same squared-off look.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/eurostile/eurostile/testdrive.html?s=TC-APR&p=72

Selcuk, how do you go about painting the plane? Do you have templates for the different types of planes? I'm asking because I need to devise paintjobs for commercial airplanes as part of a school assignment.. Having templates I could put into Illustrator would make the job a lot easier.

For the registration lettering, might want to check out B-52 from Radar Design or SAA from URW (I would recommend SAA over Interstate for this purpose -- half the price per weight and actually closer to the authentic lettering of the FHWA).

I just found this site

Wow! Custom made (custom-ruined hehe) for me! Thanks a LOT Randy!

Since I'm in no way familiar with typography, I never noticed how bad it really is, until now. The U and G do indeed look strange. By the way, what is the original font's name?

I'm aware of that website and I already have that logo (it's not that good). But thanks anyway.

Could you perhaps tell me the font used for the registration number, or tail-number, the font of TC-AP_?

Well, thanks again.

Selcuk

Thank you for all the info. I really appreciate it. So here's how it looks like in FS2004: (far from finished)

http://members.lycos.co.uk/drumex/flightsim/kittyhawk_pegasus_1.jpg

Patty, the reg you used, TC-APR, is not of the aircraft I'm painting. (some off-topic geeky tecnicality here) TC-ARP is a 737-400, I'm painting a 737-800. TC-ARP definately looks sqared-off, but the one I'm painting, TC-APM looks a bit rounder. I can't find a photo big and clear enough to show me the details. However, the M is spot on if I use Eurostile. So perhaps I'll change it to Eurostile.

That "Test Drive" feature is great. I found that linotype.com offers more flexibility in that area, you can type the font size yourself.

Franz, there are paintkits for painting aircraft. The quality differs, however. For example, this aircraft has a very crappy paintkit, just bmp files. No psd, no layers, nothing. Some paintkits, on the other hand, are very nicely done, layered for each different sort of detail.

Some things to consider:

- Allmost explicitly, the textures for the fuselage are broken down to several pieces. For example - http://members.lycos.co.uk/drumex/flightsim/kittyhawk_paintkit.jpg

- Even if you cut&paste all the sections together, you won't have the actual side-view of the aircaft, it will be just the fuselage. If you want the complete outline, you may give a try here: http://www.aerosite.net/artistic.htm But the images are very small, so it won't help much, I suppose. Oh, I have a very big side-view of an Airbus A310-304 (it's from another paintkit and no livery applied), if you'd like, I can send it to you.

If you need any further help, you can e-mail me at drumexx@yahoo.com

Looks custom to me, by someone who doesn't know much about type or logo design. The U and the G are very strange. But someone else might be able to point you to the font that inspired it - I'm drawing a blank.