Both Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie received $2,500 for their roles in this movie. Dick, an inveterate gambler, blew his entire salary at Santa Anita the weekend after shooting wrapped.
Monogram Pictures chiefs Trem Carr and W. Ray Johnston had just reformed the studio after having had an unhappy merger for two years with Herbert J. Yates' Republic Pictures (they, like many others, couldn't get along with Yates). This film was conceived as a low-budget feature meant to capitalize on Dick Merrill's and Jack Lambie's historic "Coronation Flight", which made them world-famous.
The earliest documented telecast of this film took place in New York City Wednesday 24 May 1950 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5).
Other aircraft seen are Beech 17 Staggerwing and Ford Trimotor. Many cockpit internal and external views are the Ford rather than the Lockheed