Brian J. Terwilliger has shot a short film about Van Nuys Airport and its history. It's due to be finished in fall 2004 and made available on DVD. In the meantime, he has put together a great website, OneSixRight.com (named for the main runway), that has a good dozen historic photos of the airfield and surrounding area.

Another rich source of historic details on the airport (which opened in 1928 as Metropolitan Airport, with intersecting grass runways) are the websites put up by Mark A. Reynosa. He offers maps and photos of the World War II era, the old Air National Guard base on Balboa Boulevard and the Lockheed era. Another site with history and links is here.