STEVE CHAIT IS a commercial pilot, Beechcraft Debonair owner, and practicing aviation attorney in Michigan. He now adds "movie producer" to his list of accomplishments. Wolf Hound marks the feature film directorial debut of his son Michael B. Chait. The film relies heavily on the Chaits' aviation knowledge and on aircraft and scenes from Michigan's Yankee Air Museum in Belleville. The museum's bomber plant hangar was used for location and its North American B-25 Mitchell Rosie's Reply and Boeing B-17 appear in the movie. Wolf Hound is inspired by true events. It takes place in 1944 in German-occupied France. A Jewish-American fighter pilot is shot down behind enemy lines and must work to rescue a captured B-17 Flying Fortress crew. He discovers that the Germans are loading a U.S.-marked aircraft with a superbomb. Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as "trojan horses," the movie features the Boeing B-17, North American P-51 Mustangs, a Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, the Mitchell, and a Messerschmitt Bf 109. The Spitfire, Hurricane, P-51s, Bf 109, and B-25 came from the Military Aviation Museum founded and owned by Gerald Yagen and located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Most of the aerial sequences were shot in Virginia Beach and Suffolk, Virginia. The Military Aviation Museum's B-25 Wild Cargo was used for aerial and exterior shots.
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