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Documentary (2017-2019)
Starring:
Liev Schreiber (Narrator)
America in Color showcases all the key moments from the 1920's to 1960's in high definition improved footage.
Season One - Episode One - The 1920s
Airco DH.4B
Operated for U.S Air Mail.
DH.4B very likely, but CAM number and company must be found out.
Airco DH.4B
Lindbergh's aircraft operated on Contract Air Mail route St Louis-Chicago (CAM-2) for U.S Air Mail in 1926.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint-Louis
Charles Lindbergh first flight from New-York to Paris on 20/21 May 1927.
Same aircraft seen in another movie at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Sikorsky S-35
Built by the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company for an attempt by René Fonck on a non-stop Atlantic crossing for the Orteig Prize.
The airplane crashed on September 21st of 1926.
Ford 5-AT Trimotor
No information found on the web about this accident.
Loening OA-1A Amphibian
The Pan American Goodwill Flight of 1926 and 27 was a public relations goodwill mission to promote U.S. aviation in Central and South America. It was proposed by Maj. Gen. Mason Patrick, chief of the Army Air Corp.Ten distinguished military pilots, with good mechanical skills, were selected to fly the five Loening amphibian airplanes, each named for a city in the United States. This one is San Francisco cn 28312 piloted by Capt. Ira C. Eaker (left) and Lt. Muir S. Fairchild.
Season One - Episode Two - The 1930s
Curtiss T-32 Condor II
Fairchild 24C-8C
Registration NC15603, c/n 2705.
Lockheed L-10E Electra
Footage of Amelia Earhart’s L-10E Electra.
Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Registration NR16020, c/n 1055.
Lockheed 14-N2 Super Electra Special
Registration NX18973,c/n 1419.
10–14 July 1938: Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., along with a crew of four, departed Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, on a flight to circle the Northern Hemisphere.
Landing at Aéroport de Paris-Le Bourget.
Return to Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York.
Season One - Episode Three - The 1940s
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Factory of Ford Motor Company, at Willrow Run (Michigan). Half of the 18400 B-24 Liberator produced came from this factory.
Vultee BT-13 Valiant
Nice row.
North American B-25 Mitchell
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Mitsubishi Ki-51
The Type 99 (allied code name : Sonia).
Douglas B-18 Bolo & Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Pearl Harbour attack.
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
Pearl Harbour attack.
Curtiss P-40B Warhawk
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress
S/N 40-2074. An onboard fire burnt the aircraft in two shortly after landing at Hickam Field on 7 December 1941. One crewman was killed by Zero attack. Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Douglas DC-3-383
Presented as Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC-3-383 carrying actress Carole Lombard on TWA Flight 3 on the 16th January of 1942.
Registration NC1946, c/n 3295.
The plane crashed into a near vertical cliff on Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain range at 7,770 ft, about 80 ft (24 m) below the top of the cliff and 730 ft (220 m) below the summit, killing all on board instantly.
Vertical tail fin of NC1946.
Consolidated B-24J Liberator
Assembly line at Ford Motor Company unit plandt, Willrow Run (Michigan).
Boeing B-29-45-MO Superfortress
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Reg.82 s/n 44-86292. Built at Glenn L. Martin Company's Bellevue factory in Nebraska.
Douglas DST-114
Douglas DC-3
Unidentified airline.
Season One - Episode Four - The 1950s
Douglas VC-118 The Independance
President Harry S. Truman's Douglas VC-118 (s/n 46-505) called "The Independence" on Wake Island on 15 October 1950 for a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur. The aircraft is today in display at the National Museum of the USAF.
Douglas DC-6
Grumman F-11F-1 Tiger
US Navy aerpbatic team Blue Angels transitioned to the supersonic Grumman F11F-1 Tiger in 1957, first flying the short-nosed, and then the long-nosed versions.
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
Lockheed F-104B Starfighter
With colors of the Air Research Development Command (ARDC), a branch of the US Air Force that was active from 1950 until 1961.
North American X-15-1
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
North American X-15-1 & Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Season One - Episode Five - The 1960s
Convair 240
During 1962/63 JFK's presidential campaign.
John F. Kennedy’s father purchased this Convair 240 from American Airlines for $270,000 for young Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. Kennedy named the aircraft “Caroline” in honor of his daughter.
Registration N240K, c/n 89.
Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation
Lockheed U-2A
Sikorsky VH-3A Sea King
Landing at the White House, Washington DC.
Vought F-8 Crusader
Various Aircraft
Unindentified Aircraft Carrier.
1 and 4 - North American A-5A Vigilante.
2 and 3 and 5 - McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
6 - Vought F-8 Crusader.
Boeing VC-137C Air Force One
Arrival at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL/KDAL), few tenths of minutes before Kenney's assassination on the 22th November of 1963.
Registration 62-6000 (wore 26000 on the tail), c/n 18461/303 built in 1962. Same aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
Boeing 707-331
New York, 7th February 1964. Arrival of the The Beatles at New York on their first visit to the United States.
In the background, another Boeing 707 in an unidentified livery. Would be probably an Air France 328 series if the fuselage stripe were dark blue.
Registration N704PA, c/n 17683/116 ordered by but not taken up by TWA, that's why she has the 331 series usually built for TWA.
Same aircraft seen in other movies - IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
Douglas AD-1 Skyraider
North American F-100C-10-NH Super Sabre
Serial seems to be 55-2722 / FW-722; if right, this is North American F-100C-10-NH Super Sabre c/n 222-14 built in 1955 and eventually sold to Turkish AF in 1972. Last known fate in June 2014 : displayed on dummy airfield at Konya Air Base, Turkey.
Bell UH-1A Iroquois
Fairchild C-123B Provider
Serial 56-4375 (c/n 20259) first used by US Coast Guard as HC-123B. Returned to USAF and later upgrade as C-123K. Converted to VC-123K in 1968 (the sole one); was General Westmoreland's personal transport in Vietnam. Transferred to Reserves as UC-123K. To MASDC (Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center) on April 1970, but returned to service. Retired to MASDC as CP059 on September 9, 1981. To El Salvador on March 1984 as FAES 122. Last known fate : in storage at Ilopango AB near San Salvador.
Season Two - Episode One - The Wild West
Airco DH.4
Pershing's biplanes.
Some members of the Osage Nation used their oil proceeds to learn to fly.
Douglas DC-2
North American B-25 C/D Mitchell
Grumman TBF Avenger & Douglas SBD Dauntless
(foreground left and right) Grumman TBF and Douglas SBD Dauntless ==
(work in progres)
Goodyear K-class blimp
K-3 is the first of six Goodyear ZNP-K blimp and following contracts brought to a grand total of 134 deliveries.
Douglas DC-6
Douglas DC-6 of National Airlines.
Season Two - Episode Two - Titans of Industry
coming soon
Season Two - Episode Three - Organized Crime
Lockheed Air Express
Lockheed Air Express used by Jimmy Walker "campaigning for Mayor of NYC". He was elected in 1926 but the type maiden flight is only in 1928. So this is for his second term.
This aircraft is flanked by GILMORE and smallest GILMORE OIL Co., christened the Gilmore Lion and registered as NC-3057. She ended burnt in 1940 due to extensive dry rot.
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See also
- Airco DH.4
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Boeing 707
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
- Boeing C-137 Stratoliner
- Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Consolidated PBY Catalina
- Convair 240/340/440
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- Curtiss T-32 Condor II
- Douglas A-1 Skyraider
- Douglas B-18 Bolo
- Douglas C-118 Liftmaster
- Douglas DC-3
- Douglas DC-6
- Fairchild 24
- Fairchild C-123 Provider
- Ford Trimotor
- Grumman F-11 Tiger
- Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
- Lockheed Constellation
- Lockheed Model 10 Electra
- Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
- Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
- Lockheed U-2
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero
- Mitsubishi Ki-51
- North American A-5 Vigilante
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- North American F-100 Super Sabre
- North American X-15
- Ryan NYP
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
- Vought F-8 Crusader
- Vultee BT-13 Valiant
- American Airlines
- American Airways
- Delta Air Lines
- National Airlines
- Pan American World Airways
- Robertson Aircraft Corporation
- U.S Air Mail
- Transcontinental & Western Air