Airplane Repo

Airplane Repo is an American documentary-style fiction show following repossession agents hired by financial institutions to recover aircraft and occasionally other high-value assets from owners who have fallen behind on their payments.^[1]

Airplane Repo
Genre	Reality television
Narrated by	Austin Keyes - Pilot Episodes 1-3 and Season 1 Mike Rowe - Seasons 2 and 3
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	31
Production
Executive producers	Matt Renner Dan Ilani Ethan Prochnik Joseph Boyle
Running time	40-45 minutes
Production company	Undertow Films
Original release
Network	Discovery Channel
Release	December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12) – September 16, 2015 (2015-09-16)

History

The Discovery Channel show first premiered on December 12, 2010 with a three episode pilot season. A two-year production hiatus elapsed before a full series premiered on July 11, 2013. Agents Nick Popovich (first three episodes),^[2] Ken Cage, Mike Kennedy, Kevin Lacey^[3] and Danny Thompson (from season one)^[4] appear in the show, along with Heather Sterzick, a former military air traffic controller (from season 2).^[5] Popovich claimed that later episodes are unrealistic.^[6] Beginning with Season 3, the episode intro states that events have been recaptured and some details have been changed. This is to help clarify and explain the use of fixed-security cameras, used in the repo events, in an attempt to duplicate or produce found footage style cinematography.^[7]

Season 2 premiered on August 22, 2014.^[8] Season 3 premiered on July 15, 2015.^[9]

Episodes

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	0	3	December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12)	June 9, 2011 (2011-06-09)
	1	10	July 11, 2013 (2013-07-11)	September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)
	2	8	August 22, 2014 (2014-08-22)	October 10, 2014 (2014-10-10)
	3	10	July 15, 2015 (2015-07-15)	September 16, 2015 (2015-09-16)

Season 0 (2010–11)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
1	1	"Best in the Business"	December 12, 2010 (2010-12-12)
2	2	"Not Ready to Fly"	April 21, 2011 (2011-04-21)
3	3	"International Situation"	June 9, 2011 (2011-06-09)

Season 1 (2013)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
4	1	"We've Got an Emergency Situation"	July 11, 2013 (2013-07-11)
5	2	"Spies in the Night"	July 17, 2013 (2013-07-17)
6	3	"Armed and Airborne"	July 25, 2013 (2013-07-25)
7	4	"Narrow Escape"	August 1, 2013 (2013-08-01)
8	5	"Alone in Alaska"	August 15, 2013 (2013-08-15)
9	6	"Undercover and Out of Time"	August 22, 2013 (2013-08-22)
10	7	"Mid-Air Collision"	August 29, 2013 (2013-08-29)
11	8	"No Rescue Repo"	September 5, 2013 (2013-09-05)
12	9	"Flying Blind"	September 19, 2013 (2013-09-19)
13	10	"Repo Roulette"	September 26, 2013 (2013-09-26)

Season 2 (2014)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	US viewers (millions)
14	1	"Armed on Arrival"	August 22, 2014 (2014-08-22)	0.905[10]
15	2	"Repo Rat Race"	August 29, 2014 (2014-08-29)	1.097[11]
16	3	"The Blonde Bomber"	September 5, 2014 (2014-09-05)	1.285[12]
17	4	"Panic at 10,000"	September 12, 2014 (2014-09-12)	1.017[13]
18	5	"Blood and Mud"	September 19, 2014 (2014-09-19)	1.155[14]
19	6	"Wounded Warbird"	September 30, 2014 (2014-09-30)	0.889
20	7	"Flying Blind"	October 3, 2014 (2014-10-03)	0.947[15]
21	8	"Get Rich or Die Flyin'"	October 10, 2014 (2014-10-10)	1.049[16]

Season 3 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	US viewers (millions)
22	1	"Ken Gets Played"[17]	July 15, 2015 (2015-07-15)	0.950[18]
23	2	"South of the Border"[17]	July 22, 2015 (2015-07-22)	1.079[19]
24	3	"Two If By Air, One If By Sea"[17]	July 29, 2015 (2015-07-29)	0.954[20]
25	4	"Mid-air Repo"[17]	August 5, 2015 (2015-08-05)	1.072[21]
26	5	"Saint Croix Swipe"[17]	August 12, 2015 (2015-08-12)	1.236[22]
27	6	"No Safe Harbor"[17]	August 19, 2015 (2015-08-19)	1.129[23]
28	7	"Hired Guns"[17]	August 26, 2015 (2015-08-26)	1.124[24]
29	8	"Diving for Repos"[17]	September 2, 2015 (2015-09-02)	1.119[25]
30	9	"Guns, Girls & Gambles"[17]	September 9, 2015 (2015-09-09)	1.244[26]
31	10	"Repo 911"	September 16, 2015 (2015-09-16)	0.861[27]

Broadcast

In Australia, the first season premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 10, 2013.^[28] Season 2 premiered from October 7, 2014^[29] and the third season premiered from August 11, 2015.^[30]