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B-17 aircraft and then flew Boeing Stratocruisers for Pan Am.
Scroggins’ interests led him to get into researching old aircraft accidents, and his work in aviation archaeology led him to direct and produce a few documentaries. By 2001, he was working full time in crash recovery, commercial aircraft dismantling and recycling of decommissioned airplanes. In 2010, he disassembled a retired Boeing 767 he had in Victorville, California, and reassembled it in the California desert as a crash landed airliner for the television series “The Event.” A turning point for the trajectory of his business was winning a
contract to supply two full airliners and the cockpit of a third for the 2012 Academy Award-nominated film “Flight” starring Denzel Washington. He also provided technical advice on recreating a crash scene to director Robert Zemeckis.
By 2015, he had formed Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects to focus on supplying real aviation set pieces to the motion picture and television industry.
“I’ve worked as a manager overseeing aircraft parts sales, dismantling and recovery, and I’ve worked as a director of photography – it’s a great combination because it allows me to understand what the director of
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