Appearance in Film
A Boeing 747-200 which served with British Airways until 2002 as City of Birmingham, G-BDXJ, was purchased by Dunsfold Park Ltd and Aces High Limited, a company specialising in supplying aircraft for television and film work, and transferred to Dunsfold. It was modified and used for filming for the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Some of the scenes set at Miami International Airport were filmed at Dunsfold.
Modifications to the aircraft included the removal of the normal Rolls Royce engines in separate nacelles and replacement with a single nacelle on each wing with two mocked-up engines, similar in appearance to those fitted to the B-52 Stratofortress. Dummy fuel tanks have been installed where the outer engines would normally be fitted. The aircraft is no longer flyable, but can be towed on the ground.
The aircraft has also appeared in the background of numerous Science in Action and Top Gear episodes and directly in an episode where it is towed by a JCB Fastrac tractor.
It was also towed by a Volkswagen Touareg in a 2006 5th Gear episode, the same year that the modified aircraft and Dunsfold Airfield were featured in a television advertisement filmed for the Volkswagen Touareg, demonstrating the vehicle's towing ability. In 2008 it featured in an episode of Scrapheap Challenge in which contestants created machines to tow the aircraft.
The airfield also found use when filming several scenes inside the aircraft for Come Fly with Me, starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
In 2009 for major parts of Episode 4 of ITV Series Primeval featuring a Giganotosaurus, Dunsfold Airfield was used as the location for an unspecified London Airport.
On 10 April 2011 the airfield was the hosting spot for the first time for Cobham Bus Museum's yearly event.
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