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RftYZ poster

Race for the Yankee Zephyr movie poster.

Movie (1981)
French title: Les bourlingueurs

Starring:
Ken Wahl (Barney)
Lesley Ann Warren (Sally Gibson)
Donald Pleasence (Gilbert « Gibbie » Gibson)
George Peppard (Theo Brown)

Christmas 1944: the Yankee Zephyr is loaded with the mail for US troops in the in the New Zealand Theater. But this C-47 will never reach its goal and vanished. Until Gibbie finds it during a deer hunting.

Douglas C-47A-20-DK Skytrain[]

RftYZ C-47

Registration ZK-BEU, c/n 13099.

RftYZ C-47 beach

Unidentified Aircraft[]

Not a liaison aircraft of the World War 2 but probably a Cessna O-2 Skymaster or a Cessna T-41.

RftYZ Liaison

Hughes 500D[]

Reg. ZK-HMB, c/n 29-0460D.

RftYZ ZK-HMB bis
RftYZ ZK-HMB

Hughes 500C (369HS)[]

The Hughes 500C is chasing the former Hughes 500D. Registration ZK-HKM, c/n 46-0811S.

RftYZ Hughes

Hughes 269C[]

Reg. ZK-HHQ, c/n 113-0258.

RftYZ HQ
RftYZ S-300
RftYZ ZK-HHQ

Cessna U206G Stationair[]

Reg. ZK-EFI, c/n U20603525.

RftYZ ZK-EFI

Reg.ZK-EFI Cessna U206G Stationair of Mount Cook Airlines.

Bell 206B JetRanger III[]

Reg. ZK-HSA, c/n 3092.

RftYZ ZK-HSA


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