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Paul Mantz Aircraft Collection 1930-1961

(A Work In Progress)

ManufacturerTypeBuiltMSNOther SerialCivil RegistrationRemarksPhoto
Beechcraft C-17L Staggerwing1936100 NC16441To N962W; current: Staggerwing
Museum, Tullahoma, OK
Bell47Bc. 194647B32NC112BPMAS “Helicopter Division”; Mantz sold, date unknown; crash reported 10/27/81, later, exported to France
Boeing10019341144 N873H(F4B-1) current: Kermit Weeks 
BoeingP-12  ??? Unknown ident, incomplete,
dismantled; fate unknown		 
Boeing (Douglas)B-17F1943 AAF 42-3360N67974Mantz obtained as Stillwater surplus (1946); used in
“Command Decision” (1948), “Chained Lightning”. (1949); destoyed as
CP-570, 1955.		 
CessnaUC-78B 611743-32179NC67832Delivered to AAF 8/16/43; Minter
Field, CA; to WAA as surplus; sold 11/1/8/46; to PMAS 8/8/50; used in Sky
King; sold by PMAS 4/18/54; ultimately scrapped, engines salvaged for reuse
(as per M. McMurtrey)		 
Chanute Glider (replica)       
ConsolidatedPBY-5  BuNo 21232N5609Vreported as owned by Mantz;
current: Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA.		 
CurtissJN-4 Jenny 396“A-196”N5391To Rosen-Novak?; to Aeroflex?;
to Larsen Museum, Minneapolis, MN; to San Diego Aerospace Museum; Ranger
engine while with Tallmantz; now OX-X6		 
CurtissJN-4 Jenny  “A-169”N6898  
CurtissJN-4C Canuck 1898“A-186”N10389From: Roosevelt Field Museum,
Cole Palen		 
CurtissJN-4D Jenny 400“A-179”N2821DFrom Bower; from Paramount
Pictures; to Mantz 1946; to Tallmantz; to Rosen-Novak 1966; to to  Bill McCandless 3/67; to Paul Knepper,
Pennsylvania; current: ?		 
CurtissOriole    No information 
Curtiss (replica)JN-4D Jenny1973TM-7 N33627Replica; Ranger engine;
steel-tube fuselage		 
Curtiss (replica)JN-4D Jenny1969TM-4 N2062Replica; currently registered to
Tallmantz Aviation; steel-tube fuselage		 
Curtiss-PusherJP-1 Pusher19601 N8234E3/4 scale replica built in 1960
by John Pruett; current: Weeks collection
Curtiss-PusherPusher1934101 N8YBilly Parker-built pusher
(1934); Jenny wings, OX-5 engine; incomplete & dismantled at 1968
auction; current: Terry Brandt, Hood River, OR
Curtiss-WrightP-40N  AAF 44-7983 Stillwater surplus; PMAS
storage; Tallmantz storage; reportedly sold c. 1970 to MARC as N9950;
current: reported stored in the UK.
Curtiss-WrightP-40N  AAF 44-7192N4161KStillwater surplus; PMAS until?
Was it ever Tallmantz?; to N10626; current: Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.
Curtiss-WrightP-40N  AAF 44-7203 Stillwater surplus; no known
civil history; possibly held in storage by PMAS until 1960; reported as
displayed at Chino, CA, in 1972; no further information.
Curtiss-WrightTP-40N 33915AAF 44-47923N923Current: Kermit Weeks
De Havilland90A Dragonfly19367508 N2304Ex G-AEDT; ex VH-AAD; current
ZK-AYR at Mandeville, New Zealand
De HavillandDH-4    No information 
De HavillandDH-4 M11918ET-4 N3258Boeing rebuild in 1923; to Tallmantz; to Rosen-Novak 1966; sold at 1968 auction; current: Tiger Flyers, Stow, MAPhoto
De HavillandDH-82 15 N1151TNo information 
De HavillandDH-82A194382960 N523REx G-ANEI (Hunt 1966); current:
Nicholas Baker, Upland, CA		 
De HavillandMoth DH-82A1943DE-298 N524RCurrent: William Lusk, Newport
Beach, CA		 
De HavillandMoth DH-82C DHC16RCAF 3947N6970From: CF-CIT; Current: Kermit
Weeks		 
DouglasA-20G1944 AAF 43-21658N67932Stillwater surplus; to N3WF;
current: Steave Searle, Australia (still in U.S. pre-delivery)		 
DouglasB-23  AAF 39-36NR52327Reported owned/operated by
Mantz 1945-46; to California Oil Co., New Orleans, c. 1946; current: McChord Air Museum, WA.		 
DouglasC-47A19424615AAF 41-18523NC56780Paul Mantz Air Services; appeared in “Jungle Flight” (1947); Mantz reportedly owned from 1946 to 1949
EasternFM-2  BuNo 86564N4629VCurrent: Yanks Air Museum,
Chino.
EasternFM-2 4752BuNo 74560N90523No information
EberhardtSE-5E1918 AAS 22-296N4488S.E.5a assembled by Eberhardt
Steel Co. in 1922. To the UK in 1983 (Patrick Lindsay); G-BLXT (1985); flown
with The Old Flying Machine Co, Duxford; to Richard Grace (2013); to Flying A Services (2018)
FairchildKR-2119251053 N962VPainted as Fokker D-VII;
current: Al Stix, St. Louis, MO
FairchildM-62  AAF 42-3056 ??N1332NPainted as PT-19; Current:
William Maidhot, Palm Springs, CA
FleetModel 21930291 N725VLoop record 
FleetModel 21930223 N648MTo Larsen Museum, Minneapolis,
MN		 
FokkerD VII1917504/172528/18(?)N4729V“Hells Angel” camera ship; Hisso engine; ex 3764; to Mantz 1941, to Tallmantz 1961; to Rosen-Novak 1966, to Aeroflex, ($20,000) via 1968 auction; to Wings and Wheels c. 1970: to Fokker 1981; restored, current: Militaire Luchtvaart, Soesterberg, Netherlands
FokkerE.3 Eindecker1962401“417/15”N3363GReplica built by Jim Appleby
1957-1962; destroyed in the San Diego Air Museum fire
Fokker (replica)Dr.I DB-1 N5523VReplica built by Anthony Bright
& Harold Duringer, Burbank, CA; reg cx 1/24/89		 
FordTrimotor 4-AT-B19284-AT-35NC7121Reported Columbia Pictures 1938-1939; to Mantz 1939; scrapped late 1941 after mishap
GoodyearFG-1D 2900BuNo 88086N63382Current: Kermit Weeks as N63382 
GrummanTBF-1C  BuNo 46122NX9394HMantz modified as first modern
air tanker, 1954.
John Montgomery Glider (replica     Replica built for movie
“Gallant Journey”		 
Lockheed12A19371243 NC18955
CF-BQX
RCAF 7642
N60775
N16020		Built 11/37 as NC18955; to
Western Air Express 2/24/38; to Lockheed in 1939; converted to prototype 212
bomber (msn changed to 212-13); to CF-BQX, RCAF 7642; to PM 1/21/46, re-registered as N60775; re-registered as N16020 (Amelia Earhart’s L-10) on 8/9/61; sold by Mantz
2/14/61; destroyed 12/16/61. Used in Sky King for two episodes. Info as per M.
McMurtrey & John Boyle
LockheedOrion 9C1932180 N12222(Altair DL-2A); Current: Swiss
Transport Museum
LockheedP-38L 8270AAF 44-53015N9957FF-5G; current: display at
McGuire AFB, NJ (2002)
LockheedP-38L  AAF 44-26961N74883Reported displayed at MOTA;
ownership??; FAH 504. N74883 to N38DH to N6961; crashed and destroyed 4/9/81
at KSLC.		 
LockheedPV-2 15-385BuNo 37419N7486CCurrent: reported stored at
Museo Storico del’Aeronautica Militare, Rome, Italy		 
LockheedSirius 8A1930151 NC117WMantz camera ship; lost May 9, 1940, in mid-air collision with Vultee 48 during camera shoot.
LockheedVega 1192940 N965YTo PMAS 7/28/56 as N199E;
current: Ford Museum, Dearborne, MI
Morane Borel19101910   Acquired from Mrs. Earl
Daugherty; current: Weeks Collection		 
Morane-SaulnierA-1191820308 N5130KCurrent: Kermit Weeks  “MoS 1573” 
MothMoth DH-82A194382960 N523RCurrent: Nicholas Baker, San
Bernardino, CA		 
Nieuport28 512“N4434”N10415
N4728V
SE-BMA		Current: American Heritage Museum, Stow, MA (airworthy after 2022 restoration)
Nieuport28 7171.2. N8539Current status? 
Nieuport28   ?Replica; crashed during filming
of “Great Waldo Pepper (WWI Aero 9/75)		 
NordeStampe SV4C 190 N1606Current:
Kermit Weeks   		 
North AmericanB-25D1943 AAF 43-3376N7493CUSAF surplus May 1957; to Les
Bowman; to PMAS 10/57; probably exported to Venezuela in 1961 as an air
tanker; deleted by FAA in 1970 after being reported as destroyed.
North AmericanB-25H1944 AAF 43-4643N1203Mantz Stillwater surplus; as
primary Mantz cameraship; “Catch-22” as “6A”, sold in
1975; reported lost in Colombia c. late 1970s.
North AmericanB-25H1944 AAF 43-4645 Stillwater surplus; sold as
parts and reassembled as N123A, later XB-CIV; no further record.
North AmericanB-25J1944 AAF 43-28222N5256VOwned by Les Bowman; operated by
PMAS; used as air tanker, 1961 in Venezuela; various owners after 1962;
current: USAF display at Hurlburt Field, FL.
North AmericanB-25N1944 AAF 44-22939N9456ZFrom Les Bowman to PMAS 1960;
“Catch-22” as “6C” no name; current: Mid-Atlantic Air
Museum, Reading, PA.
North AmericanP-51C 103-26342-103831N1204Current: Kermit Weeks
North AmericanP-51C   N1202Current: NASM
OrencoF-4 Tourister192045“A-197”N2145Back to Tallmantz after auction?
current: Kermit Weeks
Parker-CurtissPusher   N8YParker-built pusher; incomplete,
dismantled at 1968 auction
PitcairnPA-7 Mailwing 144 N54WCurrent: John Desmond,
Philadelphia, PA		 
PitcairnPA-7S Mailwing1928147 N95WTo Larsen Museum, Minneapolis,
MN; current: Stephen Pitcairn, Robbinsville, NJ		 
RyanB-1159 N7212Rebuilt B-1 as “Spirit of
St. Louis” for 1957 movie of same name. Current: on display at Cradle of
Aviation  Museum, Long Island, NY.
RyanB-1 153 N7206Rebuilt B-1 as “Spirit of
St. Louis” for 1957 movie of same name. Current: displayed at St. Louis,
MO
RyanC-1 402 N558NNo information
Santos Durmont Demoiselle (replica)       
SikorskyS-39A  905NC804W 
SikorskyS-5119515139 N92813Ex Los Angeles Airways; to San
Diego Air Museum; Current: ??		 
Sopwith (replica)Camel F11974TM10“F 542”N8997

G-BPOP		Replica built by Herber
Troutman, Costa Mesa, CA; current: Blue Max Movie Aircraft Museum, UK		 
Sopwith (replica)Pup1972OE1 N4308Replica 
Sopwith (replica)Triplane1967ET-1 N5492Replica; built by Lou Stolp;
possibly only on loan from Earl Tavan; to San Diego Air Museum; current:
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, UK		 
SpadVII1918S-248“S 4523”N4727VCurrent: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK
SpadXIII    No information
SpartanExecutive193925AAF 42-38288NC17656Appeared in “Jungle Flight” (1947); Mantz reported owned from 1945 to 1950
StampeSV 4C 190 N1606Current: Kermit Weeks
StandardJ-1 1582“A-179”N2825DCurrent: Kermit Weeks (MFG:
Mantz-Standard)’ Hisso engine
StandardJ-1 1598“A-190”N2826DTo Larsen Museum, Minneapolis,
MN; current: San Diego Air Museum
StandardJ-1 T 4595 N62505To Ray Folsom, then to Al Stix, St. Louis, MO
StearmanC-2B1928109NC4099Used in 1931 for “Air Mail”
StearmanPT-17 75-8024 N63588Current: Louis Radwanick,
Virginia Beach, VA		 
StearmanPT-17194175-1652 N53422MOTA WWII PT-17 markings;
current: Terence Bolger, Palatine, IL		 
StearmanPT-17 75-7613 N9090HNo information 
StearmanPT-17 75-7332 N5001VCurrent: Lawrence Johnson,
Colville, WA		 
Stearman-HammondYS-1 307 N15522Current: Hiller Aviation Museum,
San Carlos, CA		 
StinsonL-1  AAF 40-3102N63230Current: Kermit Weeks
StinsonL-1  AAF 40-291N63229No information
StinsonL-5 76-560AAF 42-98319N64669Current: Sam Tabor, East Troy,
WI		 
Thomas-MorseS4C 257“5163” Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80
hp LeRhone		 
Thomas-MorseS4C  AAS 38932 Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80
hp LeRhone		 
Thomas-MorseS4C  AAS 38898NR502Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80 hp LeRhone 
Thomas-MorseS4C 487“3485” Disassembled/stored by PMAS 
Travel Air16-K193116K-2001NC446HMantz camera plane, used in “Air Mail,” 1931
Travel AirMystery Ship RD-200 NX613KDismantled in 1968; to Pancho
Barnes; current:Skyfire Corp,; Wilmington, DL
Travel Air2000 871 N8100Dismantled, incomplete; Current:
Charles Pyeatt, Palos Verdes Estates, CA		 
Travel Air20001927707 N6268“Wichita Fokker” OX-5
“Tank” engine; to Tony Bianchi, 1985; current: Blue Max Movie
Aircraft Museum, UK		 
Travel AirE 4000 900 N8125Reported, no information 
VulteeBT-13 91278 ? N53317Playground for kids
WacoUPF-7 5538 N30141MOIA Barnstormer rides; current:
Dennis Drop, Norco, CA
WacoUPF-7 5680 N32049Current: Historic Air Tours,
Wilmington, DL
WacoYKS-7   N53361Used for “Barnstormer”
rides
Wright 1903 Flyer (replica)    G-BPVEDoug Bianchi’s Blue Max Movie
Aircraft Museum		 
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