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Documentary: 100%: Planes

Documentary Series: A Century of Flight: 100 Years of Aviation

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Documentary: A Look Forward

TV Movie: Accusé Mendès France

Movie: Age of Heroes

Documentary: Air Disasters

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Documentary: Air France

Documentary: Air War Over Finland 1939 - 1945

Accident? Shot down? Probably a twin engine aircraft.

Movie: Airplane!

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Airplane II: The Sequel

Documentary: Airport in the Jet Age

Movie: Altitude

Movie: American Warships

TV Movie: Americanski Blues

Movie: Angels & Demons

Movie: Anne-Marie

Documentary Series: Apocalypse - La 1ère guerre mondiale

Movie: Arizona Dream

Documentary: Aviateurs, 75 ans d'aventures

Many aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Back to the Future

Two paintings on the wall, with aircrafts probably of the World War One or of the Twenties.

Movie: Baggage Claim

Movie: Beach Blanket Bingo

Movie: Beautiful Dreamer

TV Series: Bergerac

2.08 A Perfect Recapture. The tail on the left? LVCDC 07:29, 17 October 2013 (MDT)

3.02 Various aircraft to identify here. The Reims-Cessna F182Q is already listed.

Documentary: Bermuda Triangle Exposed

Movie: Bis zum Horizont, dann links!

Movie: Black Dawn (1997)

Movie: Blood Diamond

Animated Series: Black Lagoon

Ep. 1.02 Mangrove Heaven

Movie: Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)

Helicopter to the left of the F-16s.

Movie: Boeing Boeing

Three drawings of aircrafts probably of the World War One.

TV Series: Brigada central 2: La guerra blanca

The backgrounded shape does'nt help to identify what is probably a BAC One-Eleven; the pointed nose makes me think to ZE433 of Empire Test Pilots’ School and dedicated to radar trials.

Movie: British Intelligence

Doesn’t match with any Gotha products, could it be Friedrichshafen G.III?

Video Game: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Movie: C'eravamo tanto amati

The officier's cap is of the Italian Air Force. Is the door from a Fiat G12 (or G212) or a Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 ?

Video Game: Call of Duty: World at War

Movie: Çanakkale 1915

Animated Movie: Cars 2

Movie: Charlie Chan in City in Darkness

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Chikyū Bōeigun

Or Made for Movie?

Movie: Chistoe nebo

TV Movie: Coco Chanel

TV Movie: Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501

Fokker F-28-1000 Fellowship ?

Documentary: Crashs aériens, l'enquête inédite

Six of the sixty three aircraft seen in this documentary are still unidentified. Each picture is a different aircraft.

Documentary Series: Crusade in the Pacific: America at War

A Japanese Fighter shot by what is probably a Grumman F6F Hellcat.

A group of single-engine planes flying over an unknown Pacific airport.

Video Game: Crysis 3

Movie: Czarodziej z Harlemu

Movie: D.A.R.Y.L.

TV Series: Dangers dans le ciel

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Documentary: Darwin's Nightmare

Movie: Das Boot

Probably radio-commanded models acting as twin medium bombers (Bristol Blenheim or Beaufighter ? Martin 187 Baltimore ?).

Movie: De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile

TV Movie: Deadly Descent

Movie: Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

Movie: Der rote Baron

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

TV Series: Desert Car Kings

Douglas DC-8 and DC-9 share this cockpit's windows layout.

Movie: Die Brücke (1959)

A model with a roundel acting as a fighter approaching, in support of American troops.

And now away.

TV Movie: Die Luftbrücke – Nur der Himmel war frei

Perhaps a de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo?

Documentary: Die Melodie der Welt

TV Series: Die Rettungsflieger

Documentary: Dirty Wars

Movie: Divisione Folgore

Miniseries: Dødelig kjemi

Movie: Eagle Eye

Movie: Echappement libre

At right, in the distance, behind the cars.

Movie: El Capo

Movie: El Norte

TV Series: Emergency!

Video Game: Emergency 4

TV Movie: Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Movie: Entscheidung in den Wolken

Movie: Escape From New York

A light unidentified aircraft is quickly seen towing the IAR glider.
That's a Bellanca Citabria or Scout.

Movie: Espoir, sierra de Teruel

Movie: Eyjafjallajökull

Bottom right corner.

Movie: Fail Safe (1964)

Perhaps Sparrow I's during tests on a Douglas F3D Skyknight in the early 1950s?

Movie: Fandango

Video Game: Far Cry 3

Video Game: Far Cry 4

Movie: Feuertaufe

High wing type (Lublin R XIII ? PZL P.7 or P.11 ?).

Bristol engine of a PZL fighter or a P 23 Karas?

Another type of aircraft.

Movie: Fighting Pilot

As Hal is testing the new Reynolds (in fact the Kinner Sportster), Berty fails to take off the Cycloplane then finds a magazine in which he's trying to learn aerobatics. Those with good eyes and a sharp knowledge of 1935 aviation magazines could perhaps help us to identify this airplane ?

TV Series: Flashpoint

Shots of Toronto Pearson International Airport.

Might be a United Airlines plane from the color scheme.

Movie: Flood!

Movie: Flying Blind

Documentary: Flying Businessman

Ryan Navion?

Movie: Flying Leathernecks

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Documentary: Flying Monsters

The crew is seated in a Glaser-Dirks DG-1000S which hides a Schleicher ASK 21. But what are the gliders on the left ?

Movie: Flying Wild

TV Series: Flying Wild Alaska

Documentary: Fröhliche Zukunft! — Wünsche, Wunder und Visionen

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Movie: Gake no ue no Ponyo

On the left.

Aircraft on the left.

Aircraft above the green Chinook.

Movie: Gern hab' ich die Frauen gekillt

TV Series: Gideon's Way

Airplane in the background.

Movie: Gloria (1931 - Germany)

Probably the Rohrbach Ro VIIIA Roland registered D-1692 in the middle of the screenshot.

An ermine (stoat) playing with an unidentified model.

Runners of the aerobatic competition during the airshow.
This competitor's aircraft worn a F on the rudder.

Unidentified glider crossing an aircraft doing aerobatics.

Unidentified biplane aircrafts given to be a flight of American aviators welcoming the Junkers W 33 aircrew.

Movie: Godzilla (2014)

TV Movie: Going Back

Animated Movie: Golgo 13: The Professional

Video Game: Grand Theft Auto V

Looks like the AMERICAN BLIMP CORP A60+.

TV Series: Green Acres

Also in Petticoat Junction.

Movie: Green Lantern

Movie: Hamle be H3

Hawker Siddeley HS.125? (shape center left).

Movie: Hard Ticket to Hawaii

TV Series: Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980)

Movie: Hell's Angels

Movie: Henri Toivonen - His Rally Days

Movie: Hercule

The newspaper will sponsored an air raid Paris-Papeete. A model of what is probably a trimotor is exposed on the desk of Juliette.

Larger plan displays a twin engine with a different fuselage.

Hercule speaking with a mechanic under the wing of an unidentified aircraft (perhaps a Farman F-190).

Movie: Hitler's Children

Video Game: Homefront

Movie: Hypnotisören

Movie: I predatori di Atlantide

Movie: Iluminados por el fuego

Movie: Im pokoryayetsya nebo

Scrapyard.

What seems to be a Yakovlev piston engine fighter.

Movie: Invasion U.S.A. (1952)

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Istrebiteli

Movie: Jackboots on Whitehall

Movie: Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

Documentary: James Bond: The True Story

Movie: Jean Galmot, aventurier

Probably a heavily modified microlight - see page for others screenshots.

TV Series: Jericho (2006 TV Series)

Ep. 1.12 The Day Before
To the right of the Astra, an unknown Gulfstream partially hidden, and an unidentified aircraft on the right.

Animated Series: Jormungand

Operating with a USN carrier fleet, so they're probably F/A-18 Hornets. However, they are too distant to know for sure.

Movie: Jurassic Attack

Movie: Kochaj albo rzuć

Movie: Kurenai no buta

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: L'Attaque du monstre géant suceur de cerveaux de l'espace !!

Movie: L'empailleuse

Unidentified white glider in the background.

Documentary: L'épopée des pionniers de l'aviation dans les Caraïbes

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: L'héritier

Many aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: La chèvre

Marie Bens is robbed and taken to another town with this commuter. Stewardess worn the Aeromexico badge so perhaps it's a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15?

Movie: La grande illusion

Movie: La mémoire courte

Movie: La noche del hermano

Movie: Largo Winch

Movie: Largo Winch II

Probably a Cessna T-41B/D or Cessna 172, perhaps of the Royal Thai Air Force or Royal Thai Army but colors are not those known for these services (image built from the merging of four taken during a panorama).

Helicopter in the distance, just beyond the nose landing gear.

Movie: Le diable rose

Movie: Le raid

The three aircrafts on the ground, at right.

Movie: Le vice et la vertu

Movie: Les avions de la première guerre mondiale 1914-1916 & 1917-1918

Many aircraft - see pages for details.

Documentary: Look at Life: Eyes of the Law

Documentary: Look at Life: The Big Take-Off

Unknown yellow single engine plane to the left and behind the Kestral.

Documentary: Look at Life: The Car Has Wings

Movie: Lord of the Flies (1963)

Movie: Low Cost

Airbus?

Movie: Luciano Serra, pilota

Movie: Ma vie en l'air

Most probably Star Airlines A320 (French movie --> French airline, color of cowling and interior, shape of windows)

See Talk:Ma vie en l'air

Movie: MacArthur

Movie: Mad Max 2

Movie: Mai wei

Documentary: Malaysia 370: The Plane That Vanished

Interior shots of aircraft during the search for MH370.

Movie: Man Of Steel

Movie: Map of the Human Heart

Movie: Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus

Movie: Master of the World

Many aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Matchless

Four seat general aviation.

TV Movie: Matchmaker Santa

Biz jet in the center, behind the car.

Video Game: Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Movie: Meet the Parents

Video Game: Metro: Last Light

TV Series: Miami Vice (TV Series)

TV Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus

Grumman A-6 Intruder?

Documentary: Mystères d'archives (TV Series)

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Documentary: MythBusters

Movie: Nankyoku monogatari

Probably a Bell 204/UH-1 alike helicopter. Only cabin views (and sound of a two blade rotor).

TV Series: NCIS

Aircraft in front of the Hercules.

Movie: Nebesnyy tikhokhod

Video Game: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Movie: Nick Carter va tout casser

Movie: Night Train to Munich

Documentary: Nos ailes au combat

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

TV Series: NYPD Blue

Ep. 9.10 Jealous Hearts

Movie: Olje!

Movie: Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku

Movie: Pad u Raj

Movie: Pancho Barnes

Probably the modified Waco (600 hp ?) of Jimmy Franklin.

Movie: Parachute Battalion

Which aircraft is built with this horizontal stabilizer ?

Movie: Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Short Movie: People of Britain

Movie: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Unidentified helicopter in the center of the picture (just at right of the clock).

Movie: Peregon

TV Series: Petticoat Junction

Same unidentified aircraft of Green Acres (N95597).

Movie: Phantom from Space

Three (large ?) aircraft low overflying vessels.

Movie: Planes

Gunnar Viking wears the number 12.

Pictures on the wall at right.

Among the tribune, Piper and Cessna (under the P and G) ? And a twin in the bottom right corner.

The black aircraft with yellow curves, running under #17.

Movie: Planes: Fire & Rescue

Cessna 172 or 182?

Twin engine on the right.

TV Series: Prehistoric Park

Ep. 6 Supercroc

Movie: Quand je serai dictateur

Video Game: Quantum of Solace (Video Game)

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Ravanello pallido

In the foreground; can't make out the registration.

Movie: Ray (2004)

Only this shot of the undercarriage is seen to illustrate that Ray's carreer has a major boost when he starts to play in Europe with the help of expanding transatlantic airways.

Perhaps a Learjet in the distance (at left, under the wing of the C-47).

Movie: Rear Window

Movie: Rescue Dawn

Video Game: Resident Evil 6

Video Game: Resident Evil: Revelations

Movie: Rivers and Tides

Movie: ROCK'Y

Documentary: Roland Garros : l'embrasseur de nuages

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Ruby Cairo

Animated Movie: Rupan Sansei vs Meitantei Conan

Movie: Sahara (1943)

Movie: Sahara (2005)

Documentary: Saint-Barthélemy, la Belle et l'avion

TV Series: San Francisco International

Movie: Sands of the Kalahari

Movie: Santo contra los cazadores de cabezas

Documentary Series: Seconds from Disaster

Movie: Secret Agent (1936)

Movie Series: Secret Agent X-9 (1945)

Movie: Seng fat dak ging

Documentary: Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII

The poor quality od this screenshot doesn't allow to distinguish a Frankfort TG-1 from a Schweizer (TG-2 or TG-3) or a Laister-Kauffman TG-4.

Video Game: Sniper Elite III

Video Game: Sniper Elite V2

Video Game: Snoopy vs the Red Baron

Sally Brown's plane. Looks like a Fokker D.VIII (except the keel).

Lucy van Pelt's plane.

Pig Pen's plane.

Short Movie: Son Indochine

The plane seems to be a Grumman F6F Hellcat with the cowling and spinner of a North American T-6.

TV Series: Sonda

Many aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Soul Plane

TV Series: Sovsem drugaya zhizn

Registration UR-JAZZ.

Movie: Soylent Green

Documentary: Space Dive

Please note that it's an helicopter (the shadow of the rotor slowing down is visible... but not on this creenshot!).

Movie: Steal the Sky

Probably a Cessna 402 or a similar twin engine light aircraft under the left wingtip of the MiG.

Movie: Storm (1999)

Movie: Superman Returns

Video Game: Test Drive Unlimited

Video Game: Test Drive Unlimited 2

Movie: Test Pilot

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The Adventures of Hal 5

Movie: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

TV Miniseries: The Andromeda Strain (TV Miniseries)

Seen on the rightmost upper screen.

TV Movie: The Arrow

Looks like to the North American XB-70 Valkyrie but without vertical stabilizer and in RCAF markings!

Movie: The Bourne Legacy

No results for registration RR-0610.

Movie: The Carpetbaggers

Movie: The Cat from Outer Space

Movie: The Chipmunk Adventure

Movie: The Conquest of the Air

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The Constant Gardener

Movie: The Crow Road

Movie: The Dam Busters

Airfield flooded.

Movie: The Expendables 3

At left, probably an Embraer 170 or 190 (note the winglet's shape).

Movie: The Fighting Lady

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The Fighting Seabees

TV Series: The Finder

Movie: The Firm (1993)

Several aircrafts in a panoramic shot.

Movie: The First of the Few

TV Movie: The Forgotten Man

Movie: The Giant Claw

Probably a drawing of a Douglas DC-4.

Movie: The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Ryan Navion closest to the police car, on the left.

Movie: The Great Dictator

Movie: The Great Escape

On the wall, on the right of the head, a memory picture with probably an Albatros fighter.
Hidden by the harm (on the left of the picture), probably a Pfalz aircraft.

Movie: The Great Race

Movie: The Green Berets

Movie: The Hangover Part III

Movie: The Hindenburg

Movie: The Imposter

Movie: The Kid

Movie: The Last Bomb

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

TV Movie: The Last Drop (2005)

Movie: The Last Emperor

Movie: The New Avengers

Movie: The Pelican Brief

Movie: The Pilot

Perhaps a Grumman G-164A Ag Cat?

TV Series: The Prisoner

Probably a Handley Page HP.35 Clive II / HP.36 Hinaidi II; also seen in episode 4.

Movie: The Proposal

Movie: The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

Yellow airplane on the right.

Movie: The Shining

Movie: The Sound Barrier

Possibly a Bristol Brigand hanging from the ceiling and on the first poster.

Movie: The Story of Aviation

Many aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The Sum of All Fears

Movie: The Thousand Plane Raid

When the escort fighter shoots down the German one, this fixed landing gear model is visible. Perhaps a Tachikawa Ki-36?

Movie: The Time Machine (1960)

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

TV Series: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV Series)

Given to be a Nieuport 28 of Frank Tallman, this replica has a lot of differences with the original plane despite the machine guns are similar to Eddie Rickenbacker's aircraft. Royal Flying Corps never flew this type of Nieuport. But a Sopwith Camel doesn't fit too.

TV Series: The War

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The Wolf of Wall Street

This private jet looks like a Gulfstream G350/450/500 or a Bombardier Global Express ...

Movie: The Wolverine

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: The X-Files

Movie: Things to Come

Movie: Thirteen Days

Another unidentified aircraft (probably a cargo but where are the wheels whels ?).

Movie: Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Saab JAS 39 Gripen or MiG 21?

Video Game: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Movie: Tomb Raider: Legend

Movie: Tommy

TV Series: Top Gear

MRCA Tornado

TV Series: Torchwood

Movie: Toto le héros

Movie: Toward the Unknown

(at right) A Fairchild C-82 Packet (but the inner wing section doesn't suit) or an unarmed North American B-25 Mitchell with a solid nose ?

Movie: Transporter 3

Movie: Tuntematon sotilas (1955)

Movie: Turbulence

The 747 in the center has been identified.

Movie: Un indien dans la ville

Cessna 152?

Movie: Un long dimanche de fiançailles

What seems to be a mock up of a crashed Fokker (which one ?).

A dirigible (red circle) is seen flying over the Trocadero Palace (1878-1935).
Despite action takes place in the aftermath of the World War One, this dirigible has a shape like those of the thirties (Dixmude and Méditerrannée -of the twenties- don't suit well).

Movie: Un singe en hiver

Multiple aircraft - see page for details. Recognition uneasy due to format shift between the shot and the edition.

Movie: Un soir... par hasard

Movie: Verboten!

Movie: Victory Through Air Power

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Vilaine (2008)

Movie: Vive la France

Movie: Vive la France (2013)

Movie: Volga - Volga

Movie: W kogo ja się wrodziłem?

Movie: Wall Street

Video Game: Wanted: Weapons of Fate

Documentary: When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

Movie: White House Down

Movie: Wielka Droga

Documentary: Wings of Russia

Multiple aircraft - see page for details.

Movie: Yôjû toshi

Movie: Yoyo

TV Series: Zivot na zámku

Turboprop aircraft in the background.

Mini-Series: Zonen

See also

• IMPDb:New Users
• IMPDb:Identifying Aircraft
• IMPDb:Military Aircraft Identification
• IMPDb:Reference Desk