Ekipazh (2016)
Movie (2016)
Russian title: Экипаж
English title: Flight Crew
Starring:
Danila Kozlovsky (Alexey Gushchin)
Vladimir Mashkov (Leonid Zinchenko)
Agnė Grudytė (Alexandra Kuzmina)
A 2016 remake of 1980 Soviet classic. A young pilot, who is fired from a military for refusing to follow an immoral order of a corrupt major general, is accepted as a trainee into a small commerical airline.
Tupolev Tu-204
The main aircraft featured in the film is Tu-204SM registered RA-54151 (serial 64151), painted in the colors of a fictitious airline Pegas Avia (the actual plane is owned by Tupolev company). A CGI model was used in some scenes.
Tupolev Tu-154
A Tu-154M reg. RA-85796 (serial 94A980) is burning in a fictional Kanwoo airport. The plane, which was destoyed in the filming process, was previously owned by Kosmos Airlines, hence the name of a fictional air carrier Osmo: it was made by removing the first and the last letter in the word "Kosmos" of original livery. The filming of the Kanwoo disaster scene took place in Zhukovsky airport.
An unidentified Tu-154 of SLO Rossiya briefly appears in the lower left corner of turmoil escape scene.
Tupolev Tu-134
Tu-134A-3 of fictional airline LodAir and fake registration JI-78040 seen on the background. The actual aircraft used was RA-65606 (factory number 46300) owned by Tupolev company.
Tupolev Tu-104
One of the scenes briefly features Tu-104B installed as a monument near Vnukovo airport. This plane with a serial number 021905 displays tail number СССР-Л5414, although its actual registration was СССР-42507.
Antonov An-12 & Tupolev Tu-16
An-12 RA-11529 (factory number 6344109) is seen behind Tu-16.
Same An-12 rendered in a CGI scene.
Antonov An-26
Antonov An-26 of a fictional airline SoAir with fake registration SO-086420. The actual plane used for filming was RA-29113 (factory number 1301), stored in Zhukovsky since 1994.
Boeing 737
Boeing 737-700 registered VQ-BLS (s/n 30277) of Yakutia Airlines in the opening credits.
Boeing 737-800 VQ-BUL (s/n 41707) near Vnukovo terminal. The scene was digitally altered to “paint” this Utair aircraft (which has mostly white livery with grey lower part of fuselage) into Pegas Avia colors. This also presents a break in continuity, as Tu-204SM appears in all other sequences of this scene.
Another Utair Boeing 737 appears on the advertising poster on the wall.
Boeing 757
Boeing 757-200 (registered VQ-BCF, serial 27974) of Yakutia Airlines
Boeing 777
Boeing 777-200 EI-UNX (s/n 30213) in Vnukovo. The scene was digitally altered to remove Transaero markings (the airline was still in existence during filming, but was already defunct when the movie was released), most likely due to advertising contract with Aeroflot.
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