Media Appearances
- McCarran Airport was featured in Diamonds Are Forever as James Bond (Sean Connery) lands there and walk out of the front of the terminal (1971)
- The mission "Secret Shuttle" supplied with Microsoft Flight Simulator X begins at McCarran International Airport.
- McCarran Airport was featured during the cataclysmic destruction of Las Vegas in the disaster film 2012.
- McCarran Airport was also featured in the 2001 Brett Ratner film Rush Hour 2 where Secret Service Agent Isabella Molina (Roselyn Sánchez), Secret Service Agent Sterling (Harris Yulin), Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) and Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) fly from McCarran Airport.
- McCarran International Airport is prominently featured in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas as a post-apocalyptic military base of operations (referred to as "Camp McCarran") for the NCR (New California Republic).
- The 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features the airport as "Las Venturas International Airport."
- McCarran Airport is the setting for the climactic scene in the 1988 film Midnight Run with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, directed by Martin Brest.
- McCarran Airport was featured in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
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