Aero Vintage Books

Welcome to the home page of Aero Vintage Books. We offer a selection of high quality, well-researched books about different aspects of aviation history. Please take a few moments to review our Book Catalog for the books we offer. We are especially proud of two areas of this website here at Aero Vintage Books, and we invite you to spend some time browsing around.

Aero Vintage Books specializes in information on the famous B-17 Flying Fortress!

• The standard reference book on the post-war use of the B-17, including the detailed histories of all the surviving B-17s: where to see them and where they came from!
• Coming Again in January 2022: A Resumption of The Popular B-17 News Page with Regular Updates on the World Of B-17s (Until then, this links to the archive B-17 News Pages)
• An updated and current online B-17 Locator List: where are the surviving 47 B-17s today?
• The Movie Star B-17s: an Ever-Growing Resource to those Movies and TV shows that feature the B-17!
• War Memorial B-17s: Those B-17s That Survived the War to Become War Memorials–a resource you won’t find anywhere else.
• And, More!!

Tallmantz Aviation

Also, please check out our unique and expanding information resource about the famous pilots Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman, and the company they formed, Tallmantz Aviation. Dig into the history of two well known Hollywood stunt pilots that came together in 1962 to form a unique company that operated for two decades at Orange County Airport in Southern California. This resource contains biographies of Mantz and Tallman, the histories of the companies they operated through the years, the films they flew for, the large aircraft collection they assembled, and the unique aerial camera ships they flew. It’s all here…please take a look and enjoy.

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