Northern Kentucky / Airborne filming location
Pompilio’s restaurant
Pompilio’s supplied the interior and exterior restaurant setting for Mitchell and Wiley’s double date, folding a real Newport institution into the movie’s romantic-comedy side.
The double-date sequence moves outside Pompilio’s in Newport, one of the archive’s independently corroborated Northern Kentucky settings.
Film frame via Film Oblivion · Airborne (1993) © applicable rights holder ↗The scene
Pompilio’s supplied the interior and exterior restaurant setting for Mitchell and Wiley’s double date, folding a real Newport institution into the movie’s romantic-comedy side.
Visit the location
600 Washington Avenue · Newport, Kentucky
The place today
McDermott remembered Pompilio’s fondly. Film Oblivion also reports a cast-and-crew autograph sign inside; that detail remains attributed to the specialist source.
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Sources
Primary records, interviews, established references, and clearly labeled specialist leads.
- Revisiting a 2013 Interview with Airborne Star Shane McDermott ↗Cincinnati CityBeat · Accessed 2026-09-11
- Movie-Filming Locations in Northern Kentucky and the Cincy Region ↗Visit Cincy · Accessed 2026-09-11
- Filming Locations — Airborne (1993) ↗Film Oblivion · Accessed 2026-09-11