Flight from Ashiya

Flight from Ashiya poster.

Movie (1964)
French title : Les trois soldats de l'aventure

Starring:
Yul Brynner (MSgt. Mike Takashima)
Richard Widmark (Lt. Col. Glenn Stevenson)
George Chakiris (2nd Lt. John Gregg)
Suzy Parker (Lucille Caroll)

A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.

Grumman HU-16B Albatross

A true-to-the-original model but the black paint on the engine.

Built as Grumman SA-16A Albatross in 1952 for the US Air Force s/n 51-5294, c/n G-176. On 18 September 1962, the unified designation gives HU-16B Albatross.

Sikorsky UH-19B Chickasaw

Serial 52-7495, c/n 55-535 built in 1953 as H-19B.

Registration JA5025, c/n 13510. Built in 1943 with USAAF serial 42-93582.
This airframe was involved in two notable incidents while in Japanese service. On 2 January 1959, a passenger opened the rear door mid-flight and jumped out over the Seto Inland Sea after failing to destroy the plane with dynamite. The plane was able to land safely.
Later, on 19 May 1961, the aircraft slid off the runway while landing during in rain at Takamatsu Airport. ANA spent two months repairing the aircraft and converting it for cargo use, including replacing the rear passenger door used in the previous incident with cargo doors, as seen in this film.

Reg. JA5025 Douglas C-47A-25-DK Skytrain of All Nippon Airways.

Douglas R4D-4

Registration JA5040, c/n 6349. Built in 1942 for Pan Am as an DC-3A-447 but not taken up. Instead to the US Navy as R4D-4 BuNo 07003. Damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Sendai Airport on 10 May 1963, no fatalities.