Anadolu Kartalları

Movie (2012)

Starring:
Engin Altan Düzyatan (Kemal Tanaçan)
Çağatay Ulusoy (Ahmet Onur)
Özge Özpirinçci (Ayşe Dinçer)
Hande Subaşı (Müzisyen Burcu)

Five young Turkish people have been dreaming of flying since their childhood. They join the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (Turkish Air Force). Through selection and training until they graduate (or fail), who will get their wings ?

Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon

F-16C Block 40A s/n 88-0035.

F-16C Block 40L s/n 92-0010 'The Phoenix' (according the screenplay).

The real Turkish Fighting Falcon "Savaşan Anka" (Fighting Phoenix) following a full rebuilt after a belly landing and fire is 88-0033 ...
And here is she :

F-16C Block 40H s/n 91-0011 (Demo scheme for the 2011-2013 season). Two others F-16C (both block 30 #88-0029 and 88-0032) worn this scheme but several years after the filming.

Including some Lockheed Martin F-16D Fighting Falcon too ...

McDonnell Douglas F-4E-2020 Phantom II

Northrop NF-5A/B Freedom Fighter

Six single seat NF-5A and two two seat NF-5B of the Türk Yıldızları (Turkish Stars), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Türk Hava Kuvvetleri (Turkish Air Force).

Northrop NF-5/2000 upgraded by IAI.

Northrop NF-5B.

Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

Various Static Aircraft

(left to right) Bell UH-1H and Canadian Car and Foundry T-34 Mentor serial 2-201 and North American F-100F Super Sabre and (outer border) Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star serial 2-519.

Northrop T-38 Talon

Instrument panel of the Northrop T-38 Talon in front of Student Pilot Dinçer (Özge Özpirinçci).
On the desk (green circle) is a SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 model and a picture of an unidentified twin engine (maybe a Martin Baltimore ?).

Cessna T-37B Tweet

Instrument panel for instruction.

Ground instruction.

Doing aerobatics.

Takeoff for the first solo flight.

KAI KT-1 Woongbi

Eurocopter AS532 Cougar

89-2505

02-2550

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Turkish Aviation Museum

Istanbul Ataturk/Yesilkoy International Airport.

MKEK-4 Uğur

Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi Kurumu designed the THK-15 which was put into production as MKEK-4 (around 60 airframes built for the Turkish Air Force during the 1950's).

Curtiss-Wright CW-22

De Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide

In the background, between the two actors.

PZL P.24

With a dark Piper L-21 Super Cub in the background.

Behind Commander Tanaçan, we guess the blurred propeller (with a red line) of a Miles M.14A Magister near the Grigorovich M-5 (biplane flying boat).

Various Aircraft (Anatolian Eagle International Air Exercise)

(top to bottom, left then right) :
F-16s and three F-4E-2020 and one F-16C (all Turkish) with a Jordanian F-16B.
Eight F-15s (only one two seat ?) and six F-5s and two F-16s and two Spanish C.15 (McDonnell Douglas EF-18A+).