In a scene of the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service the young aspiring agents have to skydive from an airplane. I didn't recognise it: which airplane is it (assuming it actually exists)?
I could only find a picture from inside and one from below.
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3$\begingroup$ Fortunately the one from below includes a (barely legible) registration. $\endgroup$– foootCommented Feb 26, 2015 at 22:52
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1$\begingroup$ To follow up with that, here's more photos of that actual aircraft: airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=G-BEOL $\endgroup$– Greg HewgillCommented Feb 26, 2015 at 22:54
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That distinctly squarish shape looks like a Short SC-7 Skyvan 3-100, especially since the registration on the photo from below is visible: G-BEOL. -
(Image Source: WikiPedia - Author: Adrian Pingstone)
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$\begingroup$ Youtube: Short Skyvan flight over Spa for parachutist dropping $\endgroup$– minsCommented Apr 5, 2015 at 14:16
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Indeed, this is a Skyvan. It was built in Belfast at the Short Brothers facility, near to the then RAF Sydenham - now George Best Airport. My father worked for Shorts as a senior design engineer. In the late 1960s I was able to visit the assembly floor. I was aged nine or ten. I saw part-completed early variant Skyvans. from time to time, I saw the finished planes over Belfast Lough as they were subjected to test flights.
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It is the Shorts SC-7. You can see the short nose compared to the C-23 Sherpa. I too thought C-23 because I worked on them in the US Air Force.
