Iron Eagle III

Iron Eagle III (1992)

Four heroes from the past fight as one to protect the future.

Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.

Date of release
1992-01-09
TMDB
4.1 / 10 (73)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Action, Thriller
Director
John Glen
Collection
Iron Eagle Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Arizona

Aces: Iron Eagle III is a 1992 action film directed by John Glen, produced by Ron Samuels, and written by Kevin Alyn Elders. A sequel to the 1988 film Iron Eagle II, it is the third installment of the Iron Eagle film series, the first and only entry in the series to be given an R rating and the only entry in the series to not be directed by Sidney J. Furie.

Production

The aerial filming involved real aircraft mixed with replica aircraft. Replicas included a North American T-6 Texan once used for the film Tora! Tora! Tora! and modified to resemble a Mitsubishi A6M Zero and four Soko G-2 Galeb aircraft painted to resemble Peruvian Air Force fighters. The prototype Scaled Composites ARES was used to resemble the semi-fictional Messerschmitt Me 263.

An authentic North American P-51 Mustang was painted to resemble a Messerschmitt Bf 109. A P-38, at the time named "Joltin Josie" and owned by Planes of Fame in Chino, California, was used as the lead fighter. Many aerial scenes were filmed around southern Arizona, including Tucson, Marana, Nogales and Sahuarita. Patagonia Lake and the Patagonia and Santa Rita Mountains can be seen in the aerial dogfights.

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