Warbird Information Exchange

Hi,

Does anyone have details on the replicas modified
for the 1957 film Spirit of St. Louis?
They were done by Tallmantz and I know two were
N7206 and N7212 but I don't have details on the
third.

S. beck

ISTR reading in Air Classics or something that they weren't what I'd consider replicas, but modified Ryan Broughams & they were only modified on one side so the pilot could still see out.

There are photos of both the original and the film aircraft in the Long Island Aviation thread above.

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I saw a Ryan Brougham at the San Diego Air and Space Museum last Fall.I thought they were pretty much extinct as most of the few surviving airframes have been used to make Spirit of St. Louis replicas. The museum had a Brougham, and hanging and above it a Spirit of St. Louis replica. Nice comparison.

I believe one Tallman Replica was destroyed in the San Diego museum fire .
Kind of lost track of the other.
Jerry

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Here are some pictures of the EAA replica when it came to Cleveland a log time ago...1970's?

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Here are some more from 1977. Sorry about the quality as they are from my 110 camera.










And the support plane......

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Yanks in Chino has the restoration of a Brougham just about finished.

EAA actually built two NYP replicas, the one flown on the 1977 tour and then another completed in 1991 so that they would have something to fly at shows after retiring the first one. IIRC both replicas were scratch built, they didn't destroy Broughams to make them.

August

Henry Ford Museum Spirit Replica used in the movie...

http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/pic/2004/ ... spirit.asp

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Here's another replica from the movie modified by Tallmantz...

http://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz6.jpg

and another...

http://www.aerofiles.com/tallmantz-NYP.jpg

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There is a very nice replica hanging inside the Lindbergh Terminal at the St. Paul/Minneapolis International airport, which was restored not too long ago, I believe in 1999, after hanging in the terminal for over a decade. I've heard that it was one of the three replicas produced for the movie, this one in particular being used for only ground scenes. This is only what I've heard however.

Here's another at the Missouri Historical Society. Scroll to the bottom of the page...

http://www.mohistory.org/content/Exhibi ... mbols.html

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Close up shot of the Henry Ford Museum example...

http://www.airchive.com/airline%20pics/ ... 0STL-1.jpg

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The three Brougham B-1's used in the movie were:
Production #153 - NC-7206 Missouri Historical Society Museum
Production #156 - NC-7209 Henry Ford Museum
Production #159 - NC-7212 Cradle Of Aviation Museum

This information (and more) can be found in the book "The Untold Story of the Spirit Of St. Louis" by Ev Cassagneres.

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