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    The Capelis XC-12 was a failed 1933 aircraft design that most notably was used as a prop in the films Five Came Back, The Flying Tigers, The Falcon in...
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  • falling ill. The transport aircraft used in the film is the Capelis XC-12, built in 1933 by Capelis Safety Airplane Corporation of California, although an...
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  • King of the Zombies was a Capelis XC-12, built in 1933 by Capelis Safety Airplane Corporation of California. The aircraft was a 12-seat, low-wing cabin monoplane...
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  • John Wayne's character arrives at the Tigers' airbase on the one-off Capelis XC-12, a failed 1933 twin-engine transport aircraft that found new life at...
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  • January 1943. The aircraft in The Purple V were: Capelis XC-12 Curtiss P-40 Warhawk The Capelis XC-12 was purchased by RKO in March 1939, after which the...
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  • the film. For the climactic escape scene, the studio again used the Capelis XC-12 transport that was on the backlot, this time painted to resemble a Luftwaffe...
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  • aerobatics monoplane Mudry CAP 230 single-seat aerobatic monoplane Capelis XC-12 12 passenger twin-engine low-wing monoplane Caproni Ca.48 airliner converted...
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  • films including Gone with the Wind (1939). In the opening scene, the Capelis XC-12 appears as an airliner; the venerable movie prop had been used in a...
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  • CAP-232 (Safety Airplane Corp, Oakland Airport and El Cerrito, CA) Capelis XC-12 (Capella Aircraft Corporation, Austin, TX) Capella SS Capella XS Capella...
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  • although it was a replica and the only flying scenes used miniatures. The Capelis XC-12, a failed 1933 airliner design that most notably was used as a prop...
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