According to European Business Air News, Ocean Sky provided the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency jet featured in Quantum of Solace after resolving a few issues such as insurance.
Niki Rokni, director of sales and marketing for Ocean Sky, had convinced EON Productions at a series of meetings that the company would be the ideal partner but then, she says, the hard work began. “One of the major issues for us was insurance,” explained Rokni. “The value of the aircraft we provided was in excess of $190 million, more than the budget for the film. EON said they’d never dealt with a company whose products were worth more than their entire budget. It took a lot of working out, but we got there with just a few days before filming was due.”
Rokni has no doubts about the benefits of Ocean Sky being placed visibly in Quantum of Solace. “We are in an age when it is estimated that more than half the world’s population has seen a James Bond film,” she points out. “It’s the perfect association for us. We pride ourselves on offering elegance and cutting edge excellence, and this is all evident in the film. We could not be happier.”
In April, FelixLeiter.com confirmed that Quantum of Solace contains a scene featuring a CIA jet on a tarmac in Haiti with Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) and a character called Gregg Beam (possibly played by an actor named David Harbour). Now we know that Ocean Sky is providing the jet seen in the following screenshot:
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