The airline depicted, during the pre-credit sequence, is the former Apollo Airways, originally based in Santa Barbara, California. The Handley Page HP.137 Mk 1 Jetstream twin turboprop, seen in the film, which had the N5VH was later re-designated "N2209", when Apollo Airways went bankrupt in 1981, and reorganized into Pacific Coast Airlines. Operations ceased in 1985. The Jetstream, piloted by Dan Gray and Ron Whitfield, when the pre-title sequence was filmed, was shot on-location in the Pope Valley area in Napa, California (Lake Berryessa is seen in the background, when the aircraft is first revealed). Only 66 of all variants of this plane were made from 1967 to 1975. The airline had to obtain a special safety variance from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly the aircraft with the door removed (to allow for the skydiving). This plane was exported to Denmark in 1988, registered there as OY-CRP and finally scrapped in 1999.

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