Popular Culture
- In 1946, an airplane "graveyard" located at the airport, containing surplus and retired aircraft from the recent war, was used for a memorable scene in the Samuel Goldwyn film The Best Years of Our Lives.
- In 1961, the exterior terminal building portrayed "Lincoln Airport" in the film Back Street starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin.
- In 1968 the airport was utilized for the film The Counterfeit Killer, starring Jack Lord and Shirley Knight.
- In 2001 the airport was utilized for the film Blow.
- The interior and exterior of Terminal 1 and the adjacent parking lot were used to portray a 1960s version of Miami International Airport in the 2002 motion picture Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
- The old Ontario terminals were used as an interior stand-in for Los Angeles International Airport on the 2004-2006 television series LAX.
- In January 2006, LA/Ontario Airport was featured, by name, in Season 5 of the television drama series 24, in which terrorists took control of the airport (then known as Ontario Airport) and took several hostages.
- The airport and its original terminal building were featured in the final scenes of the 2007 film Zodiac.
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