30/01 2015, updated 26/11 2024 by MS & PS
License to Kill
On their way to Felix Leiter's (David Hedison) wedding, James Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Felix had to make a detour making a mid air arrest of Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi), Sanchez was trying to flea in a Cessna 172P. From the Dauphin Coast Guard helicopter shadowing the Cessna, 007 is lowered down midair to the Cessna, attaching a wire to the planes tail.
Goldeneye
The plane James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco) flies to Cuba in is a 1984 Cessna 172P Skyhawk. The plane is delivered by Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker), a CIA officer Bond met in St. Petersburg. Bond and Natalya flies to Cuba scouting for the Janus' base. But they are shot down over a lake. After making an emergency landing they witness the appearing of a big telescope from the lake.
The Cessna 172P was introduced in 1981 and in production to 1986. A total of 2.664 172P planes were build. After 1986 Cessna ceased production of the Skyhawk model for ten years.
One of the four planes used for the filming of 'License to Kill' was discovered advertising for a skydiving company in Sugarloaf Airport, Sugarloaf Key, Florida. The plane is the one actually lifted and towed by the Coast Guard helicopter. It has a smaller engine just making the propellor spinning during the filming. After been discovered in Sugarloaf Key it has now been aquired by The Ian Fleming Foundation and restored.
The 'Goldeneye' Cessna has registration number N96816. Construction number: 172-76119. This planes engine is a Lycoming 0-320 SERIES. The plane is privately owned and located in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
The registration number N54743 is fake. No plane had that registration at the time of filming 'License to Kill' - some sources says the number was changed from N54748.
It was a Cessna 172P Mathias Rust landed behind the Ironcurtain on the Red Square, in the heart of Moscow in 1987.
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