Drop Zone

Drop Zone poster.

Movie (1994)

Starring:
Wesley Snipes (Pete Nessip)
Gary Busey (Ty Moncrief)
Yancy Butler (Jessie Crossman)
Michael Jeter (Earl Leedy)

When his brother is killed whilst escorting a cyber-criminal on a transport flight, Pete Nessip sets out to prove that those responsible are still alive and to stop them completing their master plan. To do this he must team up with a group of skydivers and get on the inside.

Boeing 747-146

Reg. N704CK is really a Boeing 747-146 built in 1972 (c/n 20528) and owned by American International Airways since June 1993. From January 1994, leased for two years to Saudi Arabian Airlines. N704CK denotes the link of the airline's owner : Conrad Kalitta (a drag racer) who founded an airline business with lot of acquisition / selling / merging ...
Registration eventually cancelled in February 2006 and aircraft broken up at Opa-Locka Executive Airport in Florida.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).
Kalitta Air later operated two more Boeing 747s with the N704CK registration that this aircraft should not be confused with. These two cargoes were the Boeing 747-209F/SCD with c/n 22299/462 that broke up on take-off at Brussels in 2008, and a Boeing 747-246F/SCD with c/n 23391/654 that is now in storage.

Due to the scenario and the drama that unfolds at around 10 minutes, a fictional airline (PAC Atlantic Air) has been digitized instead the original.

Various Airliner

(left to right) USAir Douglas DC-9 taxiing towards the left;
Above it, a docked United Airlines unidentified twin-jet;
Boeing 747-400 of South African Airways is taxiing;
Boeing 747 (PAC Atlantic Air) taking off.

Bell 206 JetRanger

Fitted with a powerful spotlight.

Unidentified Aircraft

Most probably a Cessna (172 ? 175 ?) unpainted basic airframe in the foreground.
(background) Close to the laguna, an unidentified microlight.

Cessna 175 Skylark & Cessna 182A Skylane & Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Filmed at Sugar Loaf Shores Airport (7FA1), a privately owned airport 11 nautical miles North East of Key West, Florida.
Left to right:
derelict fuselage is Cessna 175 Skylark registration N9351B, c/n 55151;
Cessna 182A with yellow cheatlines is registration N3720D, c/n 34420;
Cessna 172 with red cheatlines marked with registration N54743, which seems to be false. Likely one of the four 172s used in the filming of Licence to Kill, which were painted identically with this registration. Recent photos show an airframe with the same livery (though the 3 is now painted as an 8) acting as a gate guardian at Sugar Loaf Shores Airport, where this was filmed, until it was removed around 2011.

Fairchild Pilatus PC-6/B1-H2 Turbo Porter

Jessie's plane is seen throughout the movie.
Reg. N346F Fairchild Pilatus PC-6/B1-H2 c/n 2001 built in 1966. At three PM on 26 May 2005, this parachute jump plane was substantially damaged when it collided with a parachutist on final approach for landing ! After three and an half year, once repaired, fly again for paradropping (till 2025 at least).
Has worn several very different paint scheme but the 'flamingo' color one was a special livery for the movie.

Seen again half an hour later.

Jumping out.

Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Registration N6497B, c/n 29697 built in 1957. An early fastback model.

Piper J-3 Cub & Cessna 182A Skylane

Seen here most clearly but also in the background elsewhere. Skylane is registration N6007B, c/n 34007.

Cessna 182A

Reg. N3720D Cessna 182A c/n 34420 built in 1957.

Bell 206B JetRanger

The second Bell carries the registration N57BL, serial 3167.
Same helicopter in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Rotary-Wing).

N57BL.

Tight landing on this yacht.

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter

N122PM leading N123FX.

Reg. N122PM de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter built in 1966 (c/n 15) sustained substantial damaged when it struck trees after suffering a runway excursion at Fentress, Texas. This occured on 9 April 2016 in gusty crosswind landing conditions. No fatalities but aircraft written off.

Beechcraft C-45G Expeditor

Registration N683N, c/n 3335 / AF-420. Built for the USAAF with serial 42-36955.

Cessna 180D

Registration N6471X Cessna 180D c/n 18050971.

Various Aircraft

• 1: North American SNJ-5 Texan registration N3617F, c/n 88-22634. Ex-USAAF serial 42-86200 and US Navy BuNo 90773. Also wearing code J-107;
• 2: Cessna 177 Cardinal;
• 3: North American T-28B Trojan registration N8574, c/n 200-362. Built in 1955 with BuNo 138291. Aircraft was written off on 13 November 2017 when it overran the runway at Guatemala City-La Aurora Airport, injuring the two occupants;
• 4: De Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter registration N123FX, c/n 200 built in 1969;
• 5: Piper J-3 Cub;
• 6: Fairchild Pilatus PC-6/B1-H2 Turbo Porter registration N346F;
• 7: Piper PA-23 and tail of Cessna 180D N6471X;
• 8: Piper PA-46 Malibu;
• 9: Rockwell Commander 114 registration N5854N, c/n 14399.

Piper PA-46 Malibu

Bottom right.

Rockwell Commander 114

Registration N5854N Rockwell Commander 114 c/n 14399.

N5854N.

Various Aircraft

Formation flying for the formation skydive. Led by Crossman's PC-6, then two DHC-6s (left : N123FX and (right) N122PM) and the two Douglas trailing (details below).

Douglas C-47A-65-DL Skytrain

Same flight filmed with night by day rules.
Registration N3239T, c/n 19054 built in 1943. Carried serial 42-100591 with the USAAF, 2100591 with the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and 68-684 / K-684 with the Royal Danish Air Force before going back to the US for preservation with the Valiant Air Command Museum.

Douglas DC-3A-197E

Registration N129H, c/n 4126 built in 1941. Used by Moncrief's crew for their skydives.

Moncrief's team jumping out.

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See also

• Drop Zone at IMDb
• Drop Zone at Wikipedia
• Drop Zone at IMCDb