With its greenish scheme this aircraft was often referred to as "The Salad Bowl" or "The Lettuce". Even if this freighter certainly carried perishable goods during its career, the scheme was in fact intended to depict the central Napo province. This very scarsely populated district is located in the Ecuadorian section of the Amazon rainforest. Therefore it is logical the local Aboriginal artist depicted the thick rainforest all over the plane...
On a sidenote the Napo province was in 2000 the sole remaining majority-indigenous province of Ecuador with most people either claiming indigenous identity or speaking an indigenous language.
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