Fighting Pilot

Fighting Pilot movie poster.

Movie (1935)
Aka : The Fighting Pilot.

Starring:
Richard Talmadge (Hal Foster)
Gertrude Messinger (Jean Reynolds)
William Humphrey (Mr Reynolds, her father)
Robert Frazer (Cardigan)
Eddie Davis (Berty, Hal's awkward friend)

Mr Reynolds develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him. The rejected businessman and his henchmen then steal the blueprints and the plane which is the starting point for Hal and Berty to chase the bad guys to recover Reynolds' property.

Stearman C3B

Reg. NC8820 Stearman C3B n/c 235.

Kinner Sporster K

Reg. NC14237 Kinner Sportster K c/n 150.

Cycloplane C1

Reg. NC12202 Cycloplane C1 c/n 3.

Catalog's front page

As Hal is testing the new Reynolds (in fact the Kinner Sportster), Berty fails to take off the Cycloplane then finds a catalog : "Air Associates. Aviation supply catalog n°16. 1934". The plane on the front cover is a Lockheed Vega.