Air America (Film)
This page is about the 1990 film, Air America. For the 1998-1999 TV Series, see Air America (TV Series).
Movie (1990)
Starring:
Mel Gibson (Gene Ryack)
Robert Downey Jr. (Billy Covington)
Nancy Travis (Corinne Landreaux)
Ken Jenkins (Major Donald Lemond)
A young pilot finds himself recruited into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift organization operating in Vietnam War Era Laos.
Fairchild C-123B Provider
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Bell 47J-2A Ranger
Registration N1134W, c/n 3130.
Hughes TH-55 Osage
Hawker Siddeley HS.748 Srs2/208
Pilatus PC-6C Turbo-Porter
The aircraft was rebuilt from a junkyard of the Thai Air Force where the former american Fairchild AU-23 (military variant of the PC-6C) have been found. Aircraft have been sold to the Royal Thai Air Force when the withdrawal of the USA from the South East Asia, then rebuilt 15 years later by civil aircraft advisors for the movie.
Fairchild AU-23A Peacemaker
US built version of teh Pilatus PC- Porter. Used by the Thai Air Force.
Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
Westland Wessex HU-5
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
These examples are all UH-1Hs. One of the camoflauged Hueys can be seen with a anti-missile exaust deflector
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
Bell 206 JetRanger
C-123 Provider behind this Bell 206.
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