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Well today I'm relaxing watching an old episode of Dragnet, and this
episode involves a drug smuggler who crashes his plane.

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Anyways... my tired eyes and feeble brain might be mistaken but
I read the N number as N 97164 yet in another scene Friday
calls it N 17964.

So I'm kinda curious if some kind soul who has the ability to check out
these numbers could tell me what type of plane ( if any ) that those
two numbers come out as.

Please and thank you.

Go he

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Paul

Today's Curious Question wrote:

Well today I'm relaxing watching an old episode of Dragnet, and this
episode involves a drug smuggler who crashes his plane.

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Anyways... my tired eyes and feeble brain might be mistaken but
I read the N number as N 97164 yet in another scene Friday
calls it N 17964.

So I'm kinda curious if some kind soul who has the ability to check out
these numbers could tell me what type of plane ( if any ) that those
two numbers come out as.

Please and thank you.

"Today's Curious Question" wrote in message
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Well today I'm relaxing watching an old episode of Dragnet, and this
episode involves a drug smuggler who crashes his plane.

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Anyways... my tired eyes and feeble brain might be mistaken but
I read the N number as N 97164 yet in another scene Friday
calls it N 17964.

So I'm kinda curious if some kind soul who has the ability to check out
these numbers could tell me what type of plane ( if any ) that those
two numbers come out as.

Stick it into Google (without the space after the "N").

Looks like it *was* a Stinson.

N97164 does not show up in the US registration. That doesn't mean that it
never was. Just that it isn't now.

N17964 is registered as a Schweizer model SGS 2-33 as of 1992.

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Travis
"Today's Curious Question" wrote in message
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Well today I'm relaxing watching an old episode of Dragnet, and this
episode involves a drug smuggler who crashes his plane.

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Anyways... my tired eyes and feeble brain might be mistaken but
I read the N number as N 97164 yet in another scene Friday
calls it N 17964.

So I'm kinda curious if some kind soul who has the ability to check out
these numbers could tell me what type of plane ( if any ) that those
two numbers come out as.

Please and thank you.

Travis Marlatte wrote:

N97164 does not show up in the US registration. That doesn't mean that it
never was. Just that it isn't now.

N17964 is registered as a Schweizer model SGS 2-33 as of 1992.

Thanks Travis.

I kinda figured that with the age of the TV show from the early 60's
that there was a good chance that those numbers could now be
re-assigned to different planes or not in use at all.

Thanks to all who answered.

"Today's Curious Question" wrote in message

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Reminds me of watching Black Sheep. In one episode where they're landing on
an aircraft carrier (which the squadron didn't do once while Boyington was
there) and they show Boyington landing a Corsair. Then they cut to stock
footage of a Hellcat, then back to Boyington in the Corsair representing the
same aircraft. And then they cut to stock footage of a '60s or '70s
aircraft carrier and there's a helicopter barely visibile in the background.

That show was so much better when I was 10.
-c

Go watch Terminator 3 you will see 2 different N#'s on the Cessna that they
fly to the mountain.


"gatt" wrote in message
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"Today's Curious Question" wrote in message

So here's Gannon and Friday standing beside it and I notice an N number.

To me the plane looks likes a Piper colt ( rounded rudder ) but in
another scene Sgt Friday says it's a Cessna..... I don't think so.

Reminds me of watching Black Sheep. In one episode where they're landing
on
an aircraft carrier (which the squadron didn't do once while Boyington was
there) and they show Boyington landing a Corsair. Then they cut to stock
footage of a Hellcat, then back to Boyington in the Corsair representing
the
same aircraft. And then they cut to stock footage of a '60s or '70s
aircraft carrier and there's a helicopter barely visibile in the
background.

That show was so much better when I was 10.
-c

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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Go watch Terminator 3 you will see 2 different N#'s on the Cessna that
they
fly to the mountain.



I always hope that Hollywood doesn't really crash good equipment but I'm
sure sometimes they do. On more than one occasion I've found my self saying
to the screen "If you didn't want that (plane, Lamborghini,etc) give it to
me!"

Marty

"Marty" wrote in message
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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
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Go watch Terminator 3 you will see 2 different N#'s on the Cessna that
they
fly to the mountain.



I always hope that Hollywood doesn't really crash good equipment but I'm
sure sometimes they do. On more than one occasion I've found my self
saying
to the screen "If you didn't want that (plane, Lamborghini,etc) give it to
me!"


when they made the James Bond movie "The world is not enough", They used and
cut up 18 BMW cars to get the necessary shots.

"CB" wrote in message
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when they made the James Bond movie "The world is not enough", They used
and
cut up 18 BMW cars to get the necessary shots.


In "Man With the Golden Gun" I would have gladly cut up that flying Matador
myself.
Man was that thing UUUUGLEEEE!