OSU beat UCLA? When Beavers fly!
Photos courtesy Horizon Air By KVAL.com staffCORVALLIS, Ore. -- Look! Up in the sky! It's orange, it's black, it's a plane -- the Oregon State plane.
The Horizon Air Bombardier CRJ-700 jet painted in Oregon State colors will fly over Reser Stadium on Saturday at 12:50 p.m., just before kickoff of the OSU vs. UCLA game. The plane will make two passes. The first pass will be off the north end of the stadium, flying from southeast to northwest. The aircraft will circle around and fly by the south side of the stadium so the other side of the stadium can see. "This is one of the most ambitious promotions we've ever done," says Dan Russo, vice president, Marketing and Communications. "It will generate a lot of excitement around our partnerships with these schools and strengthen Horizon's brand as 'Wings of the Great Northwest.'" The airline's University of Oregon plane made a flyby of Autzen Stadium Oct. 3 before the UO-Washington State game. In December 2007, Horizon announced plans to paint four aircraft in university colors as a tribute to the venerable public institutions of the Pacific Northwest. There are four planes – Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State -- in service now. On Nov. 8, 2009, a plane painted in Boise State colors will join the fleet. Watch the plane being painted: The aircraft were already scheduled to be repainted after returning to the Horizon fleet from a contract with Frontier Airlines and were painted at no expense to the universities. The Beaver plane was unveiled on Feb. 12, 2008. The Beaver plane is a Bombardier CRJ 700 jet. These 70-seat Canadian-built jets primarily fly Horizon’s longer routes, including flights from Seattle, Spokane, Boise and Portland to California -- flying OSU’s colors over the skies of Pac-10 California rivals. |
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