It's a Wonderful Life greatest movie list, number 20 on its revised 2007 greatest movie list, and placing number one on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time. Capra revealed that this was his personal favorite among the films he directed, and that he screened it for his family every Christmas season. On Christmas Eve 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. Prayers for him reach Heaven, where Clarence Odbody, Angel 2nd Class, is assigned to save George, in return for which he will earn his angel wings. To prepare him for his mission, Clarence is shown
Avia S-199 Bf 109G-6s after the war under the Avia S-99 name, at two aircraft factories in Czechoslovakia: one of them officially called "závod Avia" (Avia Plant) (1946–48) and "závod Avia-Jiřího Dimitrova" (Avia-George Dimitroff-Plant, 1948–49) in Čakovice near Prague, as a postwar corporative part of the "Automobilové závody, n.p." "[Automotive Works, National Corp.]". The other was named "závod Vysočany" ("Vysočany Plant", 1948–49) in Prague, as a corporative part of "Letecké závody, n.p." "[Aviation Works, National Corp.]" but soon ran out of the 109's Daimler-Benz DB 605 engine after many were destroyed during an explosion at a warehouse in Krásné Březno. The S-199