It was two years ago that Outlook's Roland Jenson was approached by a British production company to buy a plane he had listed, and he's been sitting on the news that his old plane would show up in the newest James Bond movie No Time To Die until the movie came out a couple weeks ago. Since then, Jenson has seen the movie and his old plane shows up a decent amount in the film.

"I did see the movie and there was three pretty good shots of the airplane and one real quick one you had to make sure you weren't sneezing or something man 'cause you would have missed it."

The plane itself has been on quite the journey itself before sending it away to the UK for filming. Although he owns Cloud 9 Airspray in Outlook, Jenson acquired the plane back in 2017 for personal use but didn't get to put the plane in the air himself all that often other than the trip down to Florida to deliver the plane to the production company.

"We purchased it in Cochrane, Ontario and one of my pilots and his wife Kevin  and Kathy Mooney flew it back to Saskatchewan for me and then we put it in our shop here in Outlook and we did a whole bunch of refurbishing to it, and about a year later, I took it down to (my) hangar facility in Mesa, Arizona, I did some more refurbishing on it myself, and that's when I advertised it for sale."

Although Jenson only owned the plane for two years and never got to fly it much before he sold it, that was never the plan. With the U.S. dollar so strong and the plane not being essential to his business, Jenson figured he would advertise it to see what if anything he could get for it.

"I advertised the airplane in one of our aviation publications and reproduction company in London, England contacted me via phone. We haggled for a couple days and the airplane was theirs. We don't reveal what we end up selling it for, but we got a fair dollar for it and that's why we let it go. (A friend of Jenson's) said that I probably got $1,000,000 for it and (starts to laugh) I just told Brent 'yeah, just a little bit under that'."

As for the plane itself, you wouldn't know it's the same plane just from looking at it. Jenson put a lot of work in restoring it once he bought it, but the movie executives decided to make a few changes.

"No matter what you do with these airplanes, they always look the same, but I mean obviously it's not the same paint job. I had it painted all white with Canadian identification on it and we hadn't finished it yet because I hadn't put any stripes or anything on it. They turned around and stripped right down to the bare aluminum and polished it, and then they just put a bit of red on it in different spots and it actually looked quite good. When it come out of the paint shop, they put a set of floats on it and then it was delivered to Jamaica and that's where they did the scenes with the airplane."

The movie James Bond: No Time To Die is playing now in local theatres around West Central Saskatchewan, so if you want to see the plane in action you can do so now.

"It's nice to see anytime we can get an interesting story like this as small town Saskatchewan, and Saskatchewan itself, has something that hits the international stage."