Fantasy Island was a US TV series that ran from 1977 to 1984, staring Ricardo Montalbán as Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as Tatoo.

Tatoo would call out De Plane! De Plane! (youtube) Guests would disembark, who paid to live out a fantasy. Those could be dark, dangerous, or romantic, and often unfolded unexpectedly. Someone who achieved great fame wishes to be anonymous again, a man wants one last dance with his deceased wife, a soldier revisits WW-II to prove his brother was not a coward, or a husband wants to die to get an insurance payout to support his family. Most held some lesson for the wisher.

De Plane was a 1951 Grumman G-44 which once belonged to Johnathan Livingston Seagull author Richard Bach. The ownership sequence is fuzzy, but at some point, De Plane was used by drug smugglers. It was confiscated by feds, auctioned, used by a different drug gang, and confiscated again. It hit the airshow circuit for a while, and was ultimately bought by an unknown party in 2016.

De Plane then, and in 2008 repainted to minimize its link to the show. Presumably so people would stop pointing at it and yelling, “De Plane! De Plane!”