Skiptrace

SKIPTRACE (2016) 

This action movie is a comedy adventure starring Jackie Chan.

During the climactic fighting scenes, a Hong Kong police MD 902 Explorer hovers above a cargo ship docked in the harbour.

Later, the chopper flies over water towards the city.

Firebase

FIREBASE (2017) 

This short movie directed by Neill Blomkamp is about aliens in Vietnam. 

It features a helicopter disassembled by a mysterious force in the sky where it floats in mid-air like a display of spare parts.

There’s also a trio of Hueys flying over the jungle and landing in a clearing.

Other Bell UH-1 choppers appear in US army camp scenes.   

Fifty Shades Darker

FIFTY SHADES DARKER (2017) 

This movie is a sequel to romantic drama Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015). 

Flying from Portland to Seattle, an EC-130 has engine trouble and it crash-lands in the forest near Mount St Helens. 

Special effects for the stunt sequence include a mock-up, set on a mechanical gimbal to simulate the flight.   

Defenders

THE DEFENDERS (2017)

This TV drama series is about four superheroes in New York. 

The first episode, The H Word, has an AW-109 flying into the city where the chopper lands on a roof-top heli-pad.

BayWatch

BAYWATCH (2017) 

This comedy-drama is a big-screen remake of a popular TV series about life-guards in Los Angeles.  

An early scene has kids flying a quad-copter on the beach.

Just after the rescue from a burning boat, an HH-65 Dolphin arrives on the scene.

This US Coast Guard Dolphin also appears on TV later during a news report.

During a night scene, there’s an MD 500E used by the bad guys. 

This getaway flight - with a rope ladder dangling from it - is caught in the danger zone of a fireworks display, and it fails to save the fleeing villainess.

Travellers

TRAVELLERS (2016)

This sci-fi TV drama series is about agents from the future trying to save the world.

Season one’s episode Room 101 has an AS-355F1 (C-GTLC) that lands on a roof-top, bringing police to meet an FBI agent. 

After the cops talk, the Twin-Star takes off again.

A later episode, Helios 685 features a CH-53 that hauls a laser-cannon machine onto the roof-top of an industrial research lab.

Rift

THE RIFT (2016)

In this sci-fi mystery movie, shortly before the climactic scenes, a pair of Black Hawk transports fly over the ‘haunted’ location in Serbia.