Paul Mantz Aircraft Collection 1930-1961

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Manufacturer	Type	Built	MSN	Other Serial	Civil Registration	Remarks
Beechcraft	C-17L Staggerwing	1936	100		NC16441	To N962W; current: Staggerwing Museum, Tullahoma, OK
Bell	47B	c. 1946	47B32		NC112B	PMAS “Helicopter Division”; Mantz sold, date unknown; crash reported 10/27/81, later, exported to France
Boeing	100	1934	1144		N873H	(F4B-1) current: Kermit Weeks
Boeing	P-12			???		Unknown ident, incomplete, dismantled; fate unknown
Boeing (Douglas)	B-17F	1943		AAF 42-3360	N67974	Mantz obtained as Stillwater surplus (1946); used in “Command Decision” (1948), “Chained Lightning”. (1949); destoyed as CP-570, 1955.
Cessna	UC-78B		6117	43-32179	NC67832	Delivered 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)
Consolidated	PBY-5			BuNo 21232	N5609V	reported as owned by Mantz; current: Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA.
Curtiss	JN-4 Jenny		396	“A-196”	N5391	To Rosen-Novak?; to Aeroflex?; to Larsen Museum, Minneapolis, MN; to San Diego Aerospace Museum; Ranger engine while with Tallmantz; now OX-X6
Curtiss	JN-4 Jenny			“A-169”	N6898
Curtiss	JN-4C Canuck		1898	“A-186”	N10389	From: Roosevelt Field Museum, Cole Palen
Curtiss	JN-4D Jenny		400	“A-179”	N2821D	From Bower; from Paramount Pictures; to Mantz 1946; to Tallmantz; to Rosen-Novak 1966; to toÂ Bill McCandless 3/67; to Paul Knepper, Pennsylvania; current: ?
Curtiss	Oriole					No information
Curtiss (replica)	JN-4D Jenny	1973	TM-7		N33627	Replica; Ranger engine; steel-tube fuselage
Curtiss (replica)	JN-4D Jenny	1969	TM-4		N2062	Replica; currently registered to Tallmantz Aviation; steel-tube fuselage
Curtiss-Pusher	JP-1 Pusher	1960	1		N8234E	3/4 scale replica built in 1960 by John Pruett; current: Weeks collection
Curtiss-Pusher	Pusher	1934	101		N8Y	Billy Parker-built pusher (1934); Jenny wings, OX-5 engine; incomplete & dismantled at 1968 auction; current: Terry Brandt, Hood River, OR
Curtiss-Wright	P-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-Wright	P-40N			AAF 44-7192	N4161K	Stillwater surplus; PMAS until? Was it ever Tallmantz?; to N10626; current: Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA.
Curtiss-Wright	P-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-Wright	TP-40N		33915	AAF 44-47923	N923	Current: Kermit Weeks
De Havilland	90A Dragonfly	1936	7508		N2304	Ex G-AEDT; ex VH-AAD; current ZK-AYR at Mandeville, New Zealand
De Havilland	DH-4					No information
De Havilland	DH-4 M1	1918	ET-4		N3258	Boeing rebuild in 1923; to Tallmantz; to Rosen-Novak 1966; sold at 1968 auction; current: Tiger Flyers, Stow, MA
De Havilland	DH-82		15		N1151T	No information
De Havilland	DH-82A	1943	82960		N523R	Ex G-ANEI (Hunt 1966); current: Nicholas Baker, Upland, CA
De Havilland	Moth DH-82A	1943	DE-298		N524R	Current: William Lusk, Newport Beach, CA
De Havilland	Moth DH-82C		DHC16	RCAF 3947	N6970	From: CF-CIT; Current: Kermit Weeks
Douglas	A-20G	1944		AAF 43-21658	N67932	Stillwater surplus; to N3WF; current: Steave Searle, Australia (still in U.S. pre-delivery)
Douglas	B-23			AAF 39-36	NR52327	Reported owned/operated by Mantz 1945-46; to California Oil Co., New Orleans, c. 1946; current: McChord Air Museum, WA.
Douglas	C-47A	1942	4615	AAF 41-18523	NC56780	Paul Mantz Air Services; appeared in “Jungle Flight” (1947); Mantz reportedly owned from 1946 to 1949
Eberhardt	SE-5E	1918		AAS 22-296	N4488	S.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)
Fairchild	KR-21	1925	1053		N962V	Painted as Fokker D-VII; current: Al Stix, St. Louis, MO
Fairchild	M-62			AAF 42-3056 ??	N1332N	Painted as PT-19; Current: William Maidhot, Palm Springs, CA
Fleet	Model 2	1930	291		N725V	Loop record
Fleet	Model 2	1930	223		N648M	To Larsen Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Fokker	D VII	1917	504/17	2528/18(?)	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
Fokker	E.3 Eindecker	1962	401	“417/15”	N3363G	Replica built by Jim Appleby 1957-1962; destroyed in the San Diego Air Museum fire
Fokker (replica)	Dr.I		DB-1		N5523V	Replica built by Anthony Bright & Harold Duringer, Burbank, CA; reg cx 1/24/89
Ford	Trimotor 4-AT-B	1928	4-AT-35		NC7121	Reported Columbia Pictures 1938-1939; to Mantz 1939; scrapped late 1941 after mishap
Goodyear	FG-1D		2900	BuNo 88086	N63382	Current: Kermit Weeks as N63382
Grumman	TBF-1C			BuNo 46122	NX9394H	Mantz modified as first modern air tanker, 1954.
John Montgomery Glider (replica						Replica built for movie “Gallant Journey”
Lockheed	12A	1937	1243		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
Lockheed	Orion 9C	1932	180		N12222	(Altair DL-2A); Current: Swiss Transport Museum
Lockheed	PV-2		15-385	BuNo 37419	N7486C	Current: reported stored at Museo Storico del’Aeronautica Militare, Rome, Italy
Lockheed	Sirius 8A	1930	151		NC117W	Mantz camera ship; lost May 9, 1940, in mid-air collision with Vultee 48 during camera shoot.
Lockheed	Vega 1	1929	40		N965Y	To PMAS 7/28/56 as N199E; current: Ford Museum, Dearborne, MI
Morane Borel	1910	1910				Acquired from Mrs. Earl Daugherty; current: Weeks Collection
Morane-Saulnier	A-1	1918	20308		N5130K	Current: Kermit WeeksÂ “MoS 1573”