Cloud Dancer
Movie (1980)
Starring:
David Carradine (Brad Randolph)
Jennifer O'Neill (Helen St. Clair)
Joseph Bottoms (Tom Loomis)
olleen Camp (Cindy)
(Synopsis needed)
Nota : sorry for the poor quality of the VHS copy and so of the screenshot.
Goodyear GZ-19
Used by television crew to shoot the aerobatics and broadcasting close view of the competitors.
What a pitty to have just this poor VHS copy and so being unable to decypher the registration !
Christen Eagle II
(bottom left) Reg. N2FC Christen Eagle II built in 1977 and later on display at several places (for ex. at San Carlos Airport in 2007; at the EAA Airventure Museum, Pioneer Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States in 2014; Wittman Regional Airport in 2018).
Pitts S1S Special
Reg. N9J Pitts S1S Special of the Red Devils Aerobatic Team. Now on display at the Pioneer Airport.
Reg. N31428.
Stephens Akro
Reg. N10LL Leo Loudenslager personnal aircraft he later modified / optimized and flown as Laser 200. He won seven United States Aerobatic Championships and the 1980 World Aerobatics Championship at its controls. He was one of the pilots featured in this movie. He died at 53 a month later a car hit his motorcycle.
Bellanca Citabria
(left) Bellanca Citabria and (right) Boeing-Stearman Model 75.
Unidentified Aircraft
Some others in the background :
Lake LA-4 Buccaneer
Cessna 140
Reg. N2270V Cessna 140 c/n 14501 built in 1948 (hidden by a Piper PA-24 Comanche ?).
Piper PA-34 Seneca
Boeing-Stearman Model B75N1
Reg. N450V black and white Boeing-Stearman B75N1 c/n 75-6484 built in 1942, christened Black Baron. Seen here at the 12th annual Desert Sportsmen Pilote Air Show on April 1978 at Falcon Field near Mesa, Arizona, U.S.A.. Still on the airshow tour in 2010. Last info dated back to 2017. Current fate unknown.
Cessna 172M Skyhawk
Reg. N5274H Cessna 172M c/n 17265392 built in 1975.
Various Background Aircraft / Models
Brad is visiting his disabled brother Ozzie whom chamber is full of models (a yellow helicopter (Bell 47 ?), this Douglas TBD Devastator near a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. There is too a North American P-51 Mustang and a World War One biplane (Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 ?), a picture of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and another one of what seems to be a Supermaine Spitfire, etc...
Piper PA-34 Seneca
Maybe N41875 Piper PA-34-200 Seneca c/n 34-7450156 built in 1974 and sold to Canada in 1980.
(Aerotek) Pitts S2.A
Reg. N31427 Pitts S2.A seen at the manufacture hangar in Afton, Wyoming.
On 6th of July 1991, sustained substantial damage due to hard landing following the loss of elevator control in flight due to a screwdriver jamming the elevator control for unknown causes.
Piper PA-28R-201T Cherokee Arrow III
Reg. N3707M Piper PA-28R-201T Cherokee Arrow III c/n 28R-7803188.
North American P-51 Mustang
Boeing B-17 Tanker
Reg. N9563Z former Boeing B-17G is seen as Tanker 89 ready for forest fire fighting. Built with s/n 44-83563, her life was full of modification and owner. In 1963 Aviation Specialties Incorporated bought her and switched her from transport to tanker duties (code 24 then 89). Which didn't stop her from being in front of the camera at least three times as listed at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
We just see wings and engines of an other anonymous Boeing B-17 Tanker.
Ford 5-AT Trimotor
Ford 5-AT Trimotor of Scenic Airways.
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk of the Blue Angels.
PA-28R-201T Cherokee Arrow III
Reg. N4013Q Piper PA-28R-201T Cherokee Arrow III c/n 28R-7703118 built in 1977.
Lockheed Constellation
Backgrounded Lockheed Constellation
Cassutt Special
Reg. N89MC Cassutt Special (homebuilt single-seat sport and racing aircraft) came to rest in water after hitting power line over river on 26 July 1980.
Burton Cavalier
Reg. N7131 Burton Cavalier, another homebuilt aircraft, a design based on the French wooden homebuilt GY-20 Minicab designed by Yves Gardan in 1949. Little is known about N7131 : it was deregistered in November 1990, thus allowing a 1997 Raytheon A36 Bonanza to use again this registration.
Unidentified Helicopter
Shadow of an Unidentified Helicopter with an exposed welded-tube tail boom (Bell 47/Bell H-13 Sioux ? Alouette II ?)
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