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N-number :
N14883
Aircraft Serial Number : 507
Aircraft Manufacturer : ROSE-RHINEHART
Model : A4-C
Engine Manufacturer : CONT MOTOR
Model : 0-200 SERIES
Aircraft Year : 1975
Owner
Name : Charles W. Gatschet
Owner
Address : 34000 Driskell Lane
Weston, Missouri 64098
Type of
Owner : Individual
Registration Date : not updated
Airworthiness Certificate : Standard
Approved Operations : Normal
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This aircraft appears in the 1986 movie "Poncho Barnes". Unfortunately, the film
took enormous liberty with the time line of events in Pancho's life as well as many of the facts.
In the part of the 1986 movie "Pancho Barnes" covering the 1929 Powder Puff Derby, the film
makers have Pancho flying a Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship" (mono plane), which she did not own until some time later. In Fact, Pancho flew a Travel Air 4000 biplane. Marvel Crossen
flew a Travel Air 2000 biplane w/ OX-5 engine in the race, but in the movie they put her in Rhinehart-Rose Parrakeet NC14883.
Jack Rose didn't complete his pre-production prototype NX12084 until 1931 and commercial certification for NC13677 wasn't granted until 1935! They also show Amelia Earhart in a Ryan STA (low wing, open cockpit, mono plane) instead of a Lockheed Vega (high wing, enclosed cabin, 5 passenger, monoplane). They also ignored the fact that there were two divisions among the racers based on cubic inch displacement of the engines in their respective aircraft. The eventual Derby winner, Louise Thaden flew a Travel Air 4000 biplane w/ radial engine and a "speed ring cowling", which may be the one Travel Air 4000 actually shown in the movie, but that is not made clear at all. At the end of the Derby, the National Air races started in Cleveland. It was here that Poncho saw the first Travel Air Model R "Mystery Ship" flown by Doug Davis, which won the pylon speed races that year.
According to Nick Spark, Producer of "Pancho
Barnes!" A documentary film (a work still in progress) at: www.panchobarnesfilm.com, there is no record that Pancho flew a Rose Parrakeet.
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Play a video clip of
NC14883 as filmed in the 1986 movie "Pancho Barnes"
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This is a 6.6 MB file.
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See more photos of N14883 taken in 1989
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Right & Below - Three photos of N14883 from sales web site prior to sale of aircraft to Skip Gatschet.
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