Flight Into Nowhere

Movie (1938)
Starring:
Jack Holt (Jim Horne)
Jacqueline Wells (Joan Hammond)
Dick Purcell (Bill Kellogg)
James Burke (Ike Matthews)
Bill Kellogg is a talented pilot but playing too much with safety, he crashes in the jungle. The radio being out of service, can he be saved?
Douglas DC-3A-197
Reg. NC16090 for Douglas DC-3A-197 c/n 1929 of United Air Lines was cancelled on Summer 1942.


Lockheed Vega Model 1
Reg. NC7044 Lockheed Vega Model 1 c/n 11 (full story at the other movie).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Unidentified Aircraft
Maybe (center) Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing. (right) maybe a Consolidated Fleetster or a Lockheed Vega Model 5 or a Lockheed Air Express...

Ryan ST-A
Registration NC16039, c/n 128 built in 1936. Still in flying condition today (2018).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Fairchild 24C-8C
Registration NC15346, c/n 2689 built in 1935. This registration only expired in 2017.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Boeing 247 (E ?)
Reg. NC13301 City of Oakland Boeing 247 (upgraded to 247E -when ?-) c/n 1682 (or 1662 according the FAA) of United Air Lines.
Flew under several registration (X13301 and NC13301). Eventually bought by the (U.S.) War Department and actually received s/n 42-68372. Cancelled in February 1933.


Northrop Gamma 2H
Registration NC2111, c/n 12 in front of a disguised control tower (which one ?).
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).


Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior

Model with fictitious reg. NC13767 (real : Vultee V-1A c/n 5).

Reg. NC17878 (real : Taylor J-2 Cub c/n 1312).


Douglas O-38

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