Volmer Yucaipa California USA-1959: Amphibious Aircraft N2228 Ready For Flight

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationVolmer Yucaipa, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Amphibious Aircraft N2228 Ready For Flight — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1959 shows a unique amphibious aircraft with a sleek, silver fuselage and a prominent propeller, parked on a grassy field. The plane, marked with registration N2228, features a bubble canopy and a distinctive high-wing design. The scene is bathed in a strong purple color cast, characteristic of aged film, with visible grain and slight motion blur. The aircraft remains stationary throughout the clip, suggesting preparation for flight. This rare archival footage captures a moment of mid-century aviation innovation in a nostalgic, home movie style.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122696804

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Volmer Yucaipa, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm aviation footage suited for documentary or educational requests needing a brief home-movie view of an unusual amphibious aircraft on a field.
Period detail: The bubble canopy, exposed struts, high wing, and registration N2228 may show mid-century experimental or light aircraft styling in the stated 1959 California setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a simple visitor or enthusiast viewpoint on the parked aircraft, giving the shot the observational value of an unstaged home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the silver amphibious fuselage, high wing, bubble canopy, pusher-style propeller assembly, landing wheel, registration lettering, grass field, and distant trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan has a strong purple color shift, soft focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, and slight handheld instability that mark it as aged physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short aviation insert, aircraft-identification cutaway, transition into mid-century flight material, or memory beat about amateur aviation.
Historical context: The clip visually situates a small amphibious aircraft in an open field environment, suggesting private or demonstration aviation without proving a specific event.
Research note: Registration N2228 and any visible markings should be checked, and people are flagged in clip metadata, so likeness, property, and copyright review remain separate steps.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 8mm amphibious aircraft footage, N2228 aircraft home movie, Yucaipa California aviation film, and vintage small aircraft on grass field.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1959 Yucaipa or California aviation shots, then broader 1950s home-movie footage of experimental or light aircraft.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 home-movie frame from Yucaipa, California, showing aircraft N2228 with a high wing, canopy, and propeller assembly on grass. — Aircraft N2228 sits on a grassy field with its canopy, wing, struts, and propeller assembly visible.

1959 California 8mm frame showing the side of amphibious aircraft N2228, with canopy, wing struts, and rear propeller structure. — The aircraft remains stationary as the camera frames the side profile and registration marking.

Yucaipa 1959 home-movie frame of a parked amphibious aircraft, showing the canopy, high wing, wheel, and partial N2228 marking. — Soft 8mm footage shows the aircraft from the side, with the high-mounted propeller and partial registration visible.

Final 1959 home-movie frame of the stationary amphibious aircraft in Yucaipa, with high wing, canopy, struts, and propeller visible. — The closing frame holds on the stationary aircraft against grass and distant trees.

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