Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York movie poster.

Movie (1940)
Alternative English title: Charlie Chan in Murder Over New York

Starring:
Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan)
Marjorie Weaver (Patricia Shaw)
Robert Lowery (David Elliott)
Ricardo Cortez (George Kirby)
Donald MacBride (Inspector Vance)
Melville Cooper (Herbert Fenton)

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Also from this series:
Charlie Chan series

Douglas DST-114

Registration NC16001, c/n 1495/116.

Reg. NC16001 Douglas DST-114 Flagship Skysleeper-New York of American Airlines.

Douglas DC-2

Same aircraft seen in other films IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Douglas DC-2.

Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior

Registration NC17342, c/n 1216.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Reg. NC17342 Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior.

Model.

Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior.

Lockheed L-12A Electra Junior & Ryan PT-20

The two-seat USAAF aircraft in the background is a Ryan product. PT-20 very likely as it seems fitting the Menasco C4S engine used on the civil variant STM, rather than the Kinner R-5 that would make PT-22.