text: SequelsAirport had three sequels, the first two of which were hits.
  Airport 1975 Airport '77 The Concorde ... Airport '79 (titled Airport '80: The Concorde in the United Kingdom & Japan)
  The only actor to appear in all four films is George Kennedy as Joe Patroni. Patroni's character evolves and he goes from a chief mechanic in Airport to a vice president of operations in Airport 1975, a consultant in Airport '77, and an experienced pilot in The Concorde ... Airport '79.
  The High and the Mighty, a 1954 film which served as the template for Airport Zero Hour!, a 1957 film written by Arthur Hailey that visited the airline disaster film genre a decade before Hailey published Airport Jet Storm, a 1959 British film with many similarities
  Airplane! (1980), a successful parody film that blended elements of an already well-established airline disaster film genre, including plot points inspired by Airport '75 as well as Zero Hour! Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land, a 1983 ABC television movie, starring Lee Majors. Also known as Starflight One or Airport 85.
  [https://archive.today/20130221044758/http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?cnsearch=19354/503&distinct_entry=true Airliners.net Photos of the aircraft used in the film]
  Airport, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
  Airport, su Box Office Mojo'', IMDb.com.