Editing Van Nuys Airport (section)

===Film===
* Parts of the climactic scene of the film ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942) were filmed at Van Nuys Airport, at the time known as Metropolitan Airport.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-01-19-me-1361-story.html|title='Casablanca' Filmed Elsewhere : At Burbank Airport, a Myth Is Just a Myth|first=T. W.|last=McGarry|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 19, 1986|access-date=January 8, 2019}}</ref>
* The airport was used for landing the 747 in the film ''[[Executive Decision]]'' (1996), referred to as [[Frederick Municipal Airport (Maryland)|Frederick Field]]
*The dramatic ending of the ''[[film noir]]'' ''[[Armored Car Robbery]]'' (1950) takes place at what was then Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport. Antagonist [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]] and his burlesque queen girlfriend [[Adele Jergens]] are attempting to escape by chartered airplane. Cornered by Detective [[Charles McGraw]], Talman runs and is killed on the runway by a landing airplane.
*In ''[[One Six Right]]'' (2005), a film documenting the history of Van Nuys Airport, was released. It was named after the most favored runway at the airport.
*A major part of the science fiction motion picture ''[[Silent Running]]'' (1972) was filmed at the Van Nuys Airport in March 1971. The Domes from the spacecraft that contained the last surviving forests were filmed there.