Mojave Virtual Museum

The wide open spaces, great year-round weather and strange resident aircraft have made Mojave a favorite location for the movie and TV production industry over the years.
	One of the most dramatic film projects was the finale for the hit movie Speed, where a retired Boeing 707 was blown up on the taxiway outside the Aerotest hangar. The scene was set at Los Angeles International, where most of it was filmed. If you watch the background just before the plane explodes, you'll notice the sudden appearance of the Mojave mountains! EKAD photo.
	One of the National Test Pilot School's ex-Royal Danish Air Force Saab RF-35 Drakens is used to film a Shell gasoline commercial on April 19, 1997. This is the same aircraft that became somewhat famous following Denmark's unexpected World Cup soccer championship, when it was surrepitiously painted in the colors of the Danish flag. NTPS photos.

	A C-123K owned and operated by Al and Cathy Hansen's Mojo Jets serves as the backdrop for the filming of a Ford truck commercial, produced especially for the 2003 Superbowl. Alan Radecki photo.