Tom Cruise’s Top Gun fighter pilot helmet sells for £250k at auction
A fighter pilot helmet worn by Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise in the 1980s blockbuster Top Gun has sold for a staggering £250,000 at auction in Los Angeles.
The prop from 1986 action-adventure film directed by Tony Scot, which sees Cruise star as a pilot named Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, was sold for more than five times its pre-sale estimate.
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It went under the hammer alongside a number of other items of film memorabilia at an auction in the Prop Store’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, which fetched a total of £4.75 million.
A Darth Vader costume used for promotional purposes for Star Wars: A New Hope was sold in the Los Angeles auction for £221,000.
A stormtrooper helmet which was also used in Star Wars: A New Hope sold for £105,700.
A trainer worn by Michael J Fox in Back To The Future Part II when he played Marty McFly went for £26,400.
Brandon Alinger, Prop Store’s chief operating officer, said the auction was a “resounding success”.
He added: “The bidders were out in force and we had more registrants than any prior auction of this type.”
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