Movie Time

A found snapshot of an intriguing lineup, presumably used in the production of an aviation movie. Tim Dubé has identified the airport as Van Nuys CA and narrowed the date down to 1946-1949 when the Aviation Maintenance Corporation occupied the former Navy-Lockheed Service Center hangar in the background.
The derelicts appear to be, from the right, a DH-4 fuselage, the Pitcairn PA-7S C95W now displayed in the EAA Aviation Museum, a Stearman 4 (?), a Curtiss JN-4 or derivative, a Travel Air followed by a jumble of parts including perhaps a JN-4 fuselage pointing skyward and another JN-4. Could that bare metal fin at far left be a Vultee V-1?

​Ian Macdonald