{"id":416022,"date":"2026-04-28T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/independence-one-southwest-livery-celebrates-usa-250-birthday\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:01:15","slug":"independence-one-southwest-airlines-new-livery-celebrates-usas-250th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=416022","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIndependence One\u201d: Southwest Airlines\u2019 New Livery Celebrates USA\u2019s 250th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier by fleet size, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span>, has celebrated the unveiling of its latest special livery, &#8216;Independence One&#8217;. The new aircraft exterior celebrates the 250th anniversary of the founding of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span>, with the aircraft complementing the two other America-themed aircraft, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com\/news-events\/press-releases\/detail\/1924\/southwest-airlines-announces-partnership-with-america250-and-unveils-independence-one-in-celebration-of-giving-people-the-freedom-to-fly-for-55-years\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Freedom One and Liberty One<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearing registration N1776R,  the Boeing 737 MAX 8, commemorates the United States&#8217; formal declaration of independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,422,1391,645,3079,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-737","category-livery","category-southwest-airlines","category-special-livery","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416023,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416022\/revisions\/416023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}