{"id":723510,"date":"2026-06-24T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723510\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:05:17","slug":"amarillos-iac-works-on-planes-for-fifa-u-s-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723510\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo\u2019s IAC works on planes for FIFA, U.S. 250th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; International Aerospace Coatings in Amarillo worked on two projects for two of the largest events in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">International Aerospace Coatings was able to celebrate the U.S. 250th anniversary by painting the \u201cStars and Stripes\u201d planes for United Airlines. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"United States 250th Anniversary Stars and Stripes plane\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/YNCDXJKL5JDUTKX5N4IBF2CI6Q.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>United States 250th Anniversary Stars and Stripes plane(kfda)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">IAC also completed a vinyl wrap for the FIFA World Cup on an American Airlines plane that they painted as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">These planes were finished in less than three weeks and are already in the air. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"FIFA World Cup American Airlines plane\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DZY2XGQEFBCXTKSWHL7HKSF2ZU.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" \/>FIFA World Cup American Airlines plane(kfda)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">IAC employees say they are honored to be working on these planes and look forward to bringing more projects to Amarillo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe United plane was designed to celebrate all the fallen and serving heroes of the United States, and IAC painted that design on the plane in Amarillo,\u201d said Martin Forde, general manager for IAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Amarillo IAC station is home to five hangars and is working on a sixth one as well. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; International Aerospace Coatings in Amarillo worked on two projects for two of the largest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,311207,8363,311206,3,15972,21,311208,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-723510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-american-airlines-plane","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-international-aerospace-coatings","tag-news","tag-united-airlines","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-250th-anniversary","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}