The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper poster.

Movie (1981)

Starring:
Treat Williams (D.B. Cooper)
Robert Duvall (Gruen)
Kathryn Harrold (Hannah)
Paul Gleason (Remson)

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop.

Boeing 727-173C

Registration N690WA, c/n 19504/427 built in 1967. Leased from World Airways and painted in a false "Northern-Pacific Airlines" livery. This airframe is used for the aerial shots.

Boeing 727-51

Registration N105RK, c/n 19122/319 built in 1966. Painted in a false "Northern-Pacific Airlines" livery. Owned by the San Diego Padres baseball club at the time. Used for ground shots.

Boeing 737-2C0

Code 371 on the wheel well corresponds to registration N7371F, c/n 20074/170 built in 1969.

Reg. N7371F Boeing 737-2C0 of Frontier Airlines.

McDonnell Douglas DC-9 & Boeing 727

DC-9 of Republic Airlines on the left, still mostly in Hughes Airwest colors after the airline was bought out by Republic in 1980. 727 of TWA on the right.

McDonnell Douglas DC-9 of Republic Airlines and Boeing 727 of TWA-Trans World Airlines.

Later reversed, with a TWA 727 on the left and tail of a Republic (ex-Hughes) DC-9 on the right.

McDonnell Douglas DC-9 of Republic Airlines and Boeing 727 of TWA-Trans World Airlines.

Bell 206B JetRanger II

Possibly registration N59383, c/n 1150.

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Lockheed L-1329-23E JetStar & Cessna 310

Tail of a JetStar with registration N39E, c/n 5126, with a Cessna 310 immediately to its left. Can't tell what the rest of the aircraft on the flight line are.

Embraer EMB 110P1 Bandeirante

Registration N101RA, c/n 110220 built in 1979.
With a Dassault Falcon 20 behind it.

Reg. N101RA Embraer EMB 110P1 Bandeirante of Cascade Airways.

Various Aircraft

Aerial view of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's AMARG Boneyard. Identifiable are a Lockheed C-121 Constellation just behind three Lockheed P2V Neptunes, four Douglas C-118 Liftmasters on the left edge, five grey Piasecki H-21s, and numerous Sikorsky H-34 Choctaws.

Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave

At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's AMARG Boneyard.

Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw

At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's AMARG Boneyard.

Lockheed P2V Neptune

At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base's AMARG Boneyard.

Boeing A75N1

Registration N56949, c/n 752793 built in 1944.
A partially scrapped Douglas C-47 Skytrain behind it in the first shot.

Boeing-Stearman Model 75

Another Stearman with a partially enclosed cockpit and redesigned squared tail for cropdusting seen in the background.

Several other Stearman cropdusters also seen as N56949 takes off.

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See also

• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper at IMDb
• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper at Wikipedia
• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper at IMCDb