Mike that's impossible -- they'll turn him over to the Internal Revenue, customs, and half the FBI.


MICHAEL

It's not impossible. Nothing's impossible



Before WW2 ended their production, ten Boeing 307 commercial transports, named Stratoliners, had been built. TWA bought five and flew domestic routes between New York and Los Angeles for 18 months until the Army purchased them following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The intended wartime use was long-range transatlantic flight with a payload of VIPs or critical cargo. TWA converted their five Stratoliners for military service in the spring of 1942, and its Intercontinental Division (ICD) then operated these C-75's under contract to the Army's Air Transport Command (ATC) until July, 1944.[1] These were the only commercial landplanes able to cross the Atlantic with a payload until the arrival of the C-54 Skymaster in November, 1942.

Of course the fly in the oitnment was that the plane shown in the film wasn't a C-75, it was a Lockheed Constellation.