Kit Secord is the great granddaughter of Cliff Secord, the original Rocketeer as featured in The Rocketeer (1991). Billy Campbell, who played Cliff in the 1991 film, appears in this series both as Kit's father and as The Rocketeer in newsreel footage.
The town of Hughesville is named after Howard Hughes. In the original 1991 film, Hughes assists The Rocketeer in his plans to stop a Nazi invasion.
Dave Stevens, creator of the original Rocketeer character, is not credited.
This is the shortest lived Disney Junior original, lasting only one season, unlike most Disney Junior originals usually getting at least 2 seasons.
It has been reported that, according to series developer and executive producer Nicole Dubuc, the series was cancelled after one season. However, she obliquely denied this rumor on her Twitter feed claiming that her NDAs don't allow her to announce show pick-ups or cancellations before press releases as that decision is up to the studio.