Flat paint on a Sabre Jet? ...

[Mark Allen M]

Sure looks it to me.

CANADAIR CL-13B SABRE MK6, N1039C / 1600, FLIGHT SYSTEMS INC.

Registration: N1039C

Construction Number: 1600

Model Canadair CL-13B Sabre Mk6

Operator: Flight Systems Inc.

Airport: Mojave (MHV / KMHV), USA - California



Loaned from Flight Systems Inc. and painted for its role in the film "The Last Chase"€, in which it chased a Porsche racing car across the USA. Ex WGAF and for a time in storage at Wroughton when owned by Ormond Haydon Baillie. After Flight Systems (where it was used as a target tug as N86FS), it moved into private hands as N186JC and was written off in 1999.








Photo credit: Trevor Bartlett

Take a look at the movie trailer for "The Last Chase" ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnuVxQG6e9Q

[Jesse C.]

I think I actually have a movie poster for this flick. And yes, that is the weirdest looking Phantom I have ever seen!

[sandiego89]

…...And yes, that is the weirdest looking Phantom I have ever seen!

Indeed! And it looks like the Phantom on the movie poster has a few chin mounted guns!

Perhaps there is a good reason I had never seen or heard of this movie, and I will sit through about anything for a few airplane scenes....

[mike furline]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=42391

[wendovertom]

I like it - different but cool at the same time.

Tom P.

[MKD1966]

I actually found this movie on DVD several years back and bought it... It was worth it for the little bit of cool Sabre flying in it...
Mike

[Scott Rose]

I like it - different but cool at the same time.

Tom P.

Looks interesting.

[bdk]

What a horrible rendition of the Porsche race car!

[quemerford]

What a horrible rendition of the Porsche race car!

It's supposed to be a Porsche 917/10 as raced in the Can-Am by George Follmer, Mark Donohue etc. It looks better in the film as I recall.

[maxum96]

I remember watching that movie as a teenager when it came out. The movie stunk, but I enjoyed the Sabre scenes even though Burgess Meredith was a little too old to be flying a jet fighter.

[Joe Scheil]

I remember the movie from when I was small and it wasn't bad if you were 8 years old. That said its pretty tired for viewing today.

A great history piece as to where the culture thought things were going on the eve of the Reagan years....

Interestingly it takes place in 2011, and California is a refuge for race cars and machines in the movie.

The car is a replica probably built with original spare bodywork of a Porsche 917/10 as stated. the last recorded sale I have was for chassis 003 in 2012 for $5.5 Million to a Californian...perhaps to be used in a future escape from Cali to Utah? Regardless, the replica may have been assembled by Vasek Polak racing or some other concern from spares and parts lying around. I would dearly love to find out more of what happened to the car and its parts. The 917 is a fearsome car in its early iterations, the shorter chassis Can-Am cars are even more scary in some ways but have better aero. (so they killed fewer drivers!) Amazing cars.

And don't say Burgess is too old to be flying a jet fighter, he was 73. There are people that are too tall to be flying a jet fighter....

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[AirJimL2]

One of two Sabres used in the movie. The second was the sole Canadair Sabre 3 which at the time was in Ontario. It was used for static hangar shots.

Jim

[Jesse C.]

Not so bad a movie when Mystery Science Theater 3000 showed it!

https://youtu.be/FiNmX2nYBck

[Lon Moer]

I saw this movie when it came out. I was a big fan of Lee Majors/"Six Million Dollar Man" at the time.