Happy Design smiling at the prospect of TBM 850 special roll out

The special livery for the aircraft has been designed by Happy Design Studio  and this week Didier Wolff, owner & designer of the company gave a sneak preivew of the paint schème for the 2011 turboprop.

Winning the award to design the aircraft livery was a major success for Happy Design. Amongst 41 different projects from different designers a jury made of Daher Socata customers and representatives chose Wolff’s design at the Air Venture show at Oshkosh last July.

“This unique design is available with a large choice colors options, »  Wolff said. « It has been a gripping challenge to adapt the concept of the livery to the industrial production constraints and the final result is amazing on the TBM850! This project is giving us  a fantastic opportunity to work on more designs with constructors by taking into consideration at an early stage of creation the industrial inputs “, he said Didier WOLFF.

Middle Eastern owners have been taking note of the French design team already.

In November 2009, Happy Design exhibited at the Dubai Air Show for the first time.

and the region fast became a major market for the company. It followed with participation at the Bahrain International Air show in January 2010, the Aircraft Interior Middle East (AIME) in Dubai in March 2010, and was involved with AVEX in Egypt in November.

These events promoted the brand and activated a fast growing network along with a new way of approaching this specific market. “They have been the stage of many commercial agreements and promising contacts in the whole region,” Wolff said. “There is a large adequacy between the number of jets in the region, their owners’ vision of aircraft personal identity and the services offered by Happy Design.”