Model Aircraft Movies up to 1969

This is a list of movies released up to the end of 1969 that I know ( because I have watched them) or I believe have shots of model aircraft in them.

I will be adding to this list from time to time as my research progresses, so this page is always under construction. It may be the case that some of the earlier films I have listed turn out not to have a model in them. I won't know for certain until I have located a source of the film and got around to watching it.

Please let me know of any I have might have missed, particularly from European  and Japanese films of which I know very little about and would like to know a great deal more.

Clicking on any link will take you to the page for that title. No link means I haven't done that title yet.
Some of the links will take you to a modelshipsinthecinema page where I have already covered that particular title which had model ship sequences in it and also featured a model aircraft as well.

 

TITLE	YEAR	RELEASING COMPANY	VFX SUPERVISOR
	1930's
Hell's Angels	1930	United Artists
Madam Satan	1930	MGM
The Dawn Patrol	1930	Warner Bros	Fred Jackman
Dirigible	1931	Columbia	William J. Butler, Ned Mann
Air Mail	1932	Universal	John P. Fulton
Ceiling Zero	1936	Warner Bros	Fred Jackman
Devil's Squadron	1936	Columbia	Roy Davidson
Flight to Nowhere	1938	Columbia
Sinners in Paradise	1938	Universal
Test Pilot	1938	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus
The Dawn Patrol (see The Dawn Patrol 1930)	1938	Warner Bros	Edwin B. DuPar
Five Came Back	1939	RKO	Vernon L. Walker
Sabotage	1939	Republic pictures
Only Angels Have Wings	1939	Columbia	Roy Davidson
	1940's
Flight Command	1940	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie
Foreign Correspondent	1940	United Artists	Paul Eagler
Yukon Flight	1940	Monogram
A Yank in the RAF	1941	20th Century Fox	Fred Sersen
I Wanted Wings	1941	Paramount	Gordon Jennings
International Squadron	1941	Warner Bros
Ships With Wings	1941	Ealing Studios	Roy Kellino, Norman Ough, Cliff Richardson, Douglas Woolsey
Bouquet in the Southern Seas AKA Nankai no hanataba	1942	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
China Girl	1942	20th Century Fox
Captains of the Clouds	1942	Warner Bros	Byron Haskin
Casablanca	1942	Warner Bros	Lawrence Butler
Flying Tigers	1942	Republic pictures	Howard and Theodore Lydecker
The Forest Rangers	1942	Paramount	Gordon Jennings
In Which We Serve	1942	United Artists
The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya aka Hawai Mare Okikaisen	1942	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Action in the North Atlantic	1943	Warner Bros	Jack Cosgrove
Air Force	1943	Warner Bros	Roy Davidson, Hans F. Koenekamp
Bombadier	1943	RKO	Vernon L. Walker
Corvette K-225	1943	Universal
Destination Tokyo	1943	Warner Bros
Northern Pursuit	1943	Warner Bros	Roy Davidson
Stand by for Action	1943	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie
Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron AKA Kato hayabusa sento-tai	1944	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	1944	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus
Passage To Marseille	1944	Warner Bros	Jack Cosgrove
They Were Expendable	1945	MGM	A Arnold Gillespie
Blaze of Noon	1947	Paramount	Gordon Jennings
Broken Journey	1948	Gainsborough	Philippo Guidobaldi
Command Decision	1948	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie
	1950's
Air cadet	1951	Universal	David S. Horsley
No Highway in the Sky	1951	20th Century Fox
Target Unknown	1951	Universal	David S. Horsley
Angels One Five	1952		George Blackwell
Appointment in London AKA Raiders in the Sky	1953	British Lion
Malta Story	1953	Rank	Bill Warrington
Bridges at Toko Ri	1954	Paramount	John P. Fulton
The Purple Plain	1954		Bill Warrington
Hell and High Water	1954	20th Century Fox
The High and the Mighty	1954	Warner Bros
The Dam busters	1955	ABP	George Blackwell
The Night My Number Came Up	1955	Ealing Studios	Sydney Pearson
Around the World in 80 Days	1956	Michael Todd Company	Fred Sersen
Reach For the Sky	1956	Rank	Bill Warrington
High Flight	1957	Columbia	Cliff Richardson
The Land Unknown	1957	Universal	Orien Ernest, Jack Kevan, Fred Knoth
The Spirit of St. Louis	1957	Warner Bros	Hans F. Koenekamp
The Tarnished Angels	1957	Universal	Clifford Stine
Zero Hour	1957	Paramount	John P. Fulton
Crash landing	1958	Columbia
Jet Storm	1959	British Lion
North By Northwest	1959	MGM	A. Arnold Gillespie
	1960's
Storm Over the Pacific AKA Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi	1960	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Sink the Bismarck	1960	20th Century Fox	Howard and Theodore Lydecker
The last War AKA Sekai daisensô	1961	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Master of the World	1961	AIP	Ray Mercer
The Guns of Navarone	1961	Columbia	Bill Warrington
Attack Squadron AKA Taiheiyo no tsubasa	1963	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
From Russia With Love	1963	United Artists	John Stears
Goldfinger	1964	United Artists	John Stears
633 Squadron	1964	United Artists	Tom Howard
Dr. Strangelove	1964	Columbia	Wally Veevers
Fate is the Hunter	1964	20th Century Fox	L. B. Abbott
Flight From Ashiya	1964	United Artists	Eugene Lourie, Daeiei studios
In Harm's Way	1965	Paramount
McHales Navy Joins The Air Force	1965	Universal
None But the Brave	1965	Warner Bros, Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Operation Crossbow	1965	MGM	Tom Howard
Those Magnificent men in Their Flying machines	1965	20th Century Fox	Ron Ballanger
Thunderball	1965	United Artists	John Stears
The Blue Max	1966	20th Century Fox
Deadlier Than the Male	1967	Rank	Kit West
Admiral Yamamoto	1968	Toho	Eiji Tsuburaya
Ice Station Zebra	1968	MGM
King Kong Escapes AKA Kingu Kongu no gyakushû	1968	Toho	Eiji Tsubaraya
Battle of Britain	1969	United Artists	Glen Robinson
Mosquito Squadron	1969	United Artists	Les Bowie