The Night Flier

The Night Flier poster.

Movie (1997)
French title : Les ailes de la nuit
Spanish title : El aviador nocturno

Starring:
Miguel Ferrer (Richard Dees)
Julie Entwisle (Katherine Blair)
Dan Monahan (Merton Morrison)
Michael H. Moss (Dwight Renfield)
John Bennes (Ezra Hannon)
Rob Wilds (Buck Kendall)

A murderer who may or may not be a vampire using a private airplane travels between different rural airfields across America, killing people as he goes. Reporter Richard Dees, himself an aviation enthusiast, is determined to track him down.

Cessna 337 Skymaster

The vampire's plane. Registration N101BL. This registration is false and may be false in-story as well as several characters comment on how the tail number doesn't correspond to an existing aircraft... but the control tower is really calling "101 Bravo Lima".
In real life, N101BL was worn by Helio U-10B Super Courier c/n 636.

The Skymaster on the runway in New York.

The Skymaster on the front lawn of the Sarch house.

Another view.

At the Maine airfield during the daytime.

Dees finds the Skymaster at the Wilmington, North Carolina airport.

The vampire walks to his waiting plane at the film's end.

Beechcraft V35B Bonanza

Dees' plane. Registration N70DR, c/n D-10224.

Touching down in Maine.

Closeup of the prop.

Parked on the runway as Dees gets out.

Dees arrives in North Carolina.

Dees' Beechcraft visible behind the vampire's Skymaster.

Cessna 150F

A plane being worked on by mechanic Ezra Hannon at the Maine airfield. Registration N8970S, C/N 15062270.

The plane when Dees first notices it (and Ezra working on it).

Ezra talks to Dees while working on the plane.

Another view.

Various Aircraft

(left to right) high-wing aircraft (Cessna ?) / Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six / Unidentified Twin-engined.

Grumman American AA-5 & Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Other planes at the Maine airfield.

The planes sitting on the ground as Ezra comes in to work.

Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Reg. N6766A Cessna 172 c/n 28866 built in 1956.

Acro Sport

A biplane seen in the vampire's photo album, which Dees finds aboard his Skymaster. Evidently he was World War I ace.
Is it the single-seat (Acro Sport I) or the two-seat aerobatic sportsplane (Acro Sport II) ?
This design for amateur construction dates back to the 1970s.

"Dwight" standing next to his biplane in the photo.

"Dwight" in full World War I era pilot gear in another photo, presumably with the same plane.

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See also

• The Night Flier at IMDb
• The Night Flier at Wikipedia
• The Night Flier at IMCDb