The short answers
Questions
Checked against our own catalogue, style manifests and shipping table. Each answer is also on the page it came from. For anything else, support@painted.app.
How many styles are there?
Twelve, in four wings: The Golden Age, The War and Record Years, The Technical and The Painterly. Each one comes back twice, as an upright and as a wide.
What photograph do I send?
One photograph of one airplane, the whole airframe in frame, side-on or from the quarter, in daylight. Phone photos are fine. A ramp full of airplanes is not: one gets picked, and it may not be yours. JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 12 MB.
Will it still look like my airplane?
That is the rule every prompt carries ahead of the style: the planform, the gear, the propeller, the canopy, the livery, the stripes and the registration kept as photographed, never swapped for another airplane. The engine paints over your own photograph, so it starts from yours. Some renders still miss a detail, which is why looking is free and every render is yours to refuse.
Will the registration be on the painting?
Where it is in your photograph, yes: the registration stays exactly as photographed and is the only lettering the engine paints. Under the picture, the type desk sets the registration again in the lettering of the period, with the type, the model and the year the FAA register holds for that number, and a date or a home field if you want them.
Why is the maker’s badge blank?
Aircraft makers register their names and badges as trademarks. So the badge on the cowling or the tail is painted in its own colours and outline with no readable letters, and the maker’s name never sets on the type desk. The type name, Skyhawk or Bonanza or Cub, does.
What will you not paint?
Faces: crew stay small. An aircraft crashed, burning or in an emergency. An aircraft in service with an armed force; a warbird on a civil registration is painted. Added flags, roundels, insignia or logos that are not on the airplane. A photograph that is not of an aircraft is refused with one sentence before the engine sees it, and no pass is spent. A boat is sent to Painted Hulls; a floatplane, an amphibian or a flying boat is painted here.
How long does a render take?
Usually 60 to 120 seconds, both shapes at once. The upright lands at 1024 × 1536 and the wide at 1536 × 1024.
What happens to my photograph?
It goes to the engine twice, once for the upright and once for the wide, and is not kept. The render is stored so it can be printed: keep one and it lands on your wall, and write to us at support@painted.app and we delete it.
Do you store the owner’s name from the FAA register?
No. The register lists the owner’s name and address, and the parser never reads those rows. Only the type, the model and the year are kept, and only to set the line under your piece.
Do I have to buy the render?
No. Looking is free, and every render is yours to refuse: only the one you chose is printed.
What does it cost?
Prints run from $130 to $1200, plus a flat postage set from the printer's own quotes. Looking costs nothing, and the file of your own render is sold on its own.
Who runs Painted Flight?
PaintedApp, LLC, the company behind every Painted studio. Write to support@painted.app, or by post to 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202. It is not affiliated with the FAA, EAA, AOPA, any aircraft maker or any type club.
How many renders are free?
Four passes, on the house. A pass is one photograph through the engine, and it comes back twice: the upright and the wide. After the four, ten more passes are $10.
How big does it print?
Up to 40 × 60″ on paper and 24 × 36″ on canvas. What you see on screen is what goes to the printer, rebuilt at print resolution the moment you pay.
Where do you ship?
To one hundred and twenty-one countries, from the nearest print house. Postage is a flat rate by size and region, set from the printer's own quotes for the biggest parcel in each size.
Can I cancel an order?
For an hour. A paid print order waits sixty minutes before it goes to the printer, and inside that hour one click on the confirmation page or your wall refunds it in full and nothing is produced. A file is delivered the moment you pay, so it skips the hold.
Whose airplanes are on the wall?
Nobody’s. The high-wing, the low-wing and the warbird on the wall were made up to sit for the samples, and their registrations, N728HW, N47TQ and N51TQ, were not assigned on the FAA register on 17 October 2026. Their paintings can be bought as prints like any other.