Cuba
Movie (1979)
German title : Explosion in Cuba
Danish title : Da Havana røg cigaren
Starring:
Sean Connery (Major Robert Dapes)
Brooke Adams (Alexandra Lopez de Pulido)
Jack Weston (Larry Gutman)
Hector Elizondo (Captain Raphael Ramirez)
(Synopsis needed)
Douglas DC-6B
Reg. EC-DCK Douglas DC-6B c/n 45077, l/n 728 built in 1956 seen here wearing the colors of Aerotransporte de España (1977-1984) with the brand modified to the fictitious Compañía Cubana de Aviación. The Spanish flag under the registration and the red/yellow/red stripes on top of the tail have been erased for the filming.
Also carried registration VH-INT, F-BOEV, OO-VFG, N9383A, EC-DCK, and 9Q-CCM during its lifetime, before scrapping between 1995 and 2000.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Douglas C-54A-15-DC Skymaster
Douglas C-54A-15-DC Skymaster c/n 10408/DC139 s/n 42-72303 was first on the civil registry as N54305 for California Eastern Airlines in 1950. Later YV-C-EVB then G-APID (from 1957). After a tumultuous career, leased by Dan-Air Services in 1965 and 1966. Boutht by Spantax SA on August 1967 which kept the Dan-Air livery and eventually WFU without new service. So converted into Aerolandia Snack Bar San Pablo (Seville, Spain) as seen here. Damaged by heavy winds in late 1978 and broken up.
Dornier Do 27
Reg. EC-BSX Dornier Do 27 c/n 2094 (ex D-EFKA) wearing the fictitious company name (Skinner Air named after Donald Skinner (actor : Denholm Elliott) who is an arm dealer).
North American TB-25N Mitchell
Another aircraft with Skinner at the controls ...
Anonymous North American B-25 believed to be the TB-25N s/n 44-29121 (same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing)).
Damaged during the filming, and left behind in Malaca, the Spanish customs sized it and the plane ended in the Cuatro Vientos' Museo del Aire with the color of the only B-25 ever owned by the Ejercito del Aire (Spanish Air Force) code 74°17 (still on display in 2021).
Lockheed T.10 Hércules
4 on the front of this Ejercito del Aire (Spanish Air Force) serial 31-04 / T.10-04 Lockheed C-130H Hercules (c/n 4534) delivered in April 1974. WFU in 2015.
Cuba never had such transport cargo (and only a handful of DC-3 and C-47 in 1958). As the filming was in Spain which had some C-47 on strength, it's sad the director could not put some of them in front of the camera...
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