YPSILANTI, Mich. Shawn Langdons Kalitta Air Careers team will race with new livery designed to look like a Kalitta Air plane in the upcoming season.

The 2025 NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series begins March 7-9, 2025 at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.

In the middle of the 2023 season, Kalitta Air began using Langdons Top Fuel team as part of its multi-faceted, multi-media effort to recruit pilots and mechanics to work at Kalitta Air.

The program is working well, but in an effort to link the race team more closely to the airline, the new livery makes the car look more like the planes that deliver cargo around the world Langdons Top Fuel car is now almost an extension of the Kalitta Air Boeing 747 and 777 aircraft.

The Kalitta Air Careers car is definitely making a difference in our hiring at Kalitta Air, Kalitta Air Senior VP and Deputy Chief Operating Officer Heath Nichol said. This program is working, but we still need more pilots and mechanics so were rebranding the Kalitta Air Careers car to make it mirror our aircraft in hopes of more closely linking the race team with the iconic Kalitta Air 747s many people see at airports around the world. Flying a 747 is a dream job for many pilots we just want to make sure they know were hiring.

Weve been honored to help Kalitta Air find the employees it needs through our race team, Team Kalitta General Manager Chad Head said. Its gratifying to know the effort is paying off and that new pilots and mechanics are applying for jobs. With Shawns car now looking like a Kalitta Air plane, were hoping hiring will accelerate almost as fast as the Kalitta Air Careers car leaves the starting line.