Cecil's Cafe Maverick (2024)

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Where is Cecil's Cafe in Maverick? ›

After the supersonic jet crash, the scene in the quaint Cecil's Café was actually filmed at the Halfway House café in Santa Clarita, California.

The Hard Deck bar was built from scratch, right on the beach in Coronado, but Kosinski says the scene was inspired by a very real place—the officers club at Top Gun school in Fallon, Nevada, which Kosinski visited while prepping for production in 2017.

This is the bar that “The Hard Deck” on Top Gun: Maverick was based on. This place is so awesome.

No, Penny Benjamin's house in "Maverick" (the sequel to "Top Gun") is not the same as Charlie's house in the original "Top Gun." The movies were filmed at different locations, and the houses depicted are distinct.

Where was the beach scene in“Top Gun: Maverick“ filmed? Breakers Beach is a very private military beach located in San Diego, California; near the Coronado Air Station and is also a part of North Island Naval Air Station, which also houses the Top Gun base.

You can't go to the Hard Deck, the bar featured in "Top Gun: Maverick," in real life because it doesn't actually exist. The good news is that there's a place both exactly like it and even better at the same time. While former naval aviator Capt.

A significant portion of “Top Gun: Maverick” was filmed at the Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California. Affectionately known as “Fightertown USA,” this base, located on the picturesque Coronado peninsula, served as the primary filming location for the training sequences and base scenes.

The base was also nicknamed “Fightertown U.S.A.” -- Fans can grab some great grub at this downtown San Diego institution and try to recreate Goose's (Anthony Edwards) memorable rendition of “Great Balls of Fire.”

The sequel - which was nominated for six Academy Awards - sees Maverick, now decades into his career, wooing a bar owner (and daughter of an admiral) named Penny Benjamin.

TOPGUN is a nickname for what began as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School and is now known as the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program. Formerly located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in California, TOPGUN is now located at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada.

How fast is Mach 10? ›

The final flight of the small X-43A research aircraft is targeted to sustain a speed of up to Mach 10, or 10 times the speed of sound (about 7,000 mph), powered by a revolutionary airframe-integrated supersonic-combustion ramjet or 'scramjet' engine.

The Top Gun House, formerly known as the Graves House, is a historic landmark in Oceanside, California known for being the location in a scene in the 1986 action drama film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.

While she never appears in person in the first "Top Gun," Penny becomes a major character in the sequel. Now played by Connelly, Penny owns a bar that is the downtime destination of choice for the TOPGUN crew.

Kansas City Barbeque - Marina, San Diego, CA.

4 Top Gun 2's Incomplete Uranium Enrichment Plant Target Hints Iran As The Enemy. In Top Gun: Maverick, Pete Mitchell and his team's mission is to destroy an unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant that violates several treaties.