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 to 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 |
| Eastern | FM-2 | | | BuNo 86564 | N4629V | Current: Yanks Air Museum,
Chino. | |
Eastern | FM-2 | | 4752 | BuNo 74560 | N90523 | No information | |
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 | P-38L | | 8270 | AAF 44-53015 | N9957F | F-5G; current: display at
McGuire AFB, NJ (2002) | |
Lockheed | P-38L | | | AAF 44-26961 | N74883 | Reported displayed at MOTA;
ownership??; FAH 504. N74883 to N38DH to N6961; crashed and destroyed 4/9/81
at KSLC. | |
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 Weeks “MoS 1573” | |
Moth | Moth DH-82A | 1943 | 82960 | | N523R | Current: Nicholas Baker, San
Bernardino, CA | |
Nieuport | 28 | | 512 | “N4434” | N10415
N4728V
SE-BMA | Current: American Heritage Museum, Stow, MA (airworthy after 2022 restoration) | |
Nieuport | 28 | | 7171.2. | | N8539 | Current status? | |
Nieuport | 28 | | | | ? | Replica; crashed during filming
of “Great Waldo Pepper (WWI Aero 9/75) | |
Norde | Stampe SV4C | | 190 | | N1606 | Current:
Kermit Weeks   | |
North American | B-25D | 1943 | | AAF 43-3376 | N7493C | USAF 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 American | B-25H | 1944 | | AAF 43-4643 | N1203 | Mantz Stillwater surplus; as
primary Mantz cameraship; “Catch-22” as “6A”, sold in
1975; reported lost in Colombia c. late 1970s. | |
North American | B-25H | 1944 | | AAF 43-4645 | | Stillwater surplus; sold as
parts and reassembled as N123A, later XB-CIV; no further record. | |
North American | B-25J | 1944 | | AAF 43-28222 | N5256V | Owned 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 American | B-25N | 1944 | | AAF 44-22939 | N9456Z | From Les Bowman to PMAS 1960;
“Catch-22” as “6C” no name; current: Mid-Atlantic Air
Museum, Reading, PA. | |
North American | P-51C | | 103-263 | 42-103831 | N1204 | Current: Kermit Weeks | |
North American | P-51C | | | | N1202 | Current: NASM | |
Orenco | F-4 Tourister | 1920 | 45 | “A-197” | N2145 | Back to Tallmantz after auction?
current: Kermit Weeks | |
Parker-Curtiss | Pusher | | | | N8Y | Parker-built pusher; incomplete,
dismantled at 1968 auction | |
Pitcairn | PA-7 Mailwing | | 144 | | N54W | Current: John Desmond,
Philadelphia, PA | |
Pitcairn | PA-7S Mailwing | 1928 | 147 | | N95W | To Larsen Museum, Minneapolis,
MN; current: Stephen Pitcairn, Robbinsville, NJ | |
Ryan | B-1 | | 159 | | N7212 | Rebuilt B-1 as “Spirit of
St. Louis” for 1957 movie of same name. Current: on display at Cradle of
Aviation Museum, Long Island, NY. | |
Ryan | B-1 | | 153 | | N7206 | Rebuilt B-1 as “Spirit of
St. Louis” for 1957 movie of same name. Current: displayed at St. Louis,
MO | |
Ryan | C-1 | | 402 | | N558N | No information | |
Santos Durmont Demoiselle (replica) | | | | | | | |
Sikorsky | S-39A | | | 905 | NC804W | | |
Sikorsky | S-51 | 1951 | 5139 | | N92813 | Ex Los Angeles Airways; to San
Diego Air Museum; Current: ?? | |
Sopwith (replica) | Camel F1 | 1974 | TM10 | “F 542” | N8997
G-BPOP | Replica built by Herber
Troutman, Costa Mesa, CA; current: Blue Max Movie Aircraft Museum, UK | |
Sopwith (replica) | Pup | 1972 | OE1 | | N4308 | Replica | |
Sopwith (replica) | Triplane | 1967 | ET-1 | | N5492 | Replica; built by Lou Stolp;
possibly only on loan from Earl Tavan; to San Diego Air Museum; current:
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, UK | |
Spad | VII | 1918 | S-248 | “S 4523” | N4727V | Current: Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK | |
Spad | XIII | | | | | No information | |
Spartan | Executive | 1939 | 25 | AAF 42-38288 | NC17656 | Appeared in “Jungle Flight” (1947); Mantz reported owned from 1945 to 1950 | |
Stampe | SV 4C | | 190 | | N1606 | Current: Kermit Weeks | |
Standard | J-1 | | 1582 | “A-179” | N2825D | Current: Kermit Weeks (MFG:
Mantz-Standard)’ Hisso engine | |
Standard | J-1 | | 1598 | “A-190” | N2826D | To Larsen Museum, Minneapolis,
MN; current: San Diego Air Museum | |
Standard | J-1 | | T 4595 | | N62505 | To Ray Folsom, then to Al Stix, St. Louis, MO | |
Stearman | C-2B | 1928 | 109 | | NC4099 | Used in 1931 for “Air Mail” | |
Stearman | PT-17 | | 75-8024 | | N63588 | Current: Louis Radwanick,
Virginia Beach, VA | |
Stearman | PT-17 | 1941 | 75-1652 | | N53422 | MOTA WWII PT-17 markings;
current: Terence Bolger, Palatine, IL | |
Stearman | PT-17 | | 75-7613 | | N9090H | No information | |
Stearman | PT-17 | | 75-7332 | | N5001V | Current: Lawrence Johnson,
Colville, WA | |
Stearman-Hammond | YS-1 | | 307 | | N15522 | Current: Hiller Aviation Museum,
San Carlos, CA | |
Stinson | L-1 | | | AAF 40-3102 | N63230 | Current: Kermit Weeks | |
Stinson | L-1 | | | AAF 40-291 | N63229 | No information | |
Stinson | L-5 | | 76-560 | AAF 42-98319 | N64669 | Current: Sam Tabor, East Troy,
WI | |
Thomas-Morse | S4C | | 257 | “5163” | | Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80
hp LeRhone | |
Thomas-Morse | S4C | | | AAS 38932 | | Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80
hp LeRhone | |
Thomas-Morse | S4C | | | AAS 38898 | NR502 | Disassembled/stored by PMAS; 80 hp LeRhone | |
Thomas-Morse | S4C | | 487 | “3485” | | Disassembled/stored by PMAS | |
Travel Air | 16-K | 1931 | 16K-2001 | | NC446H | Mantz camera plane, used in “Air Mail,” 1931 | |
Travel Air | Mystery Ship | | RD-200 | | NX613K | Dismantled in 1968; to Pancho
Barnes; current:Skyfire Corp,; Wilmington, DL | |
Travel Air | 2000 | | 871 | | N8100 | Dismantled, incomplete; Current:
Charles Pyeatt, Palos Verdes Estates, CA | |
Travel Air | 2000 | 1927 | 707 | | N6268 | “Wichita Fokker” OX-5
“Tank” engine; to Tony Bianchi, 1985; current: Blue Max Movie
Aircraft Museum, UK | |
Travel Air | E 4000 | | 900 | | N8125 | Reported, no information | |
Vultee | BT-13 | | 91278 ? | | N53317 | Playground for kids | |
Waco | UPF-7 | | 5538 | | N30141 | MOIA Barnstormer rides; current:
Dennis Drop, Norco, CA | |
Waco | UPF-7 | | 5680 | | N32049 | Current: Historic Air Tours,
Wilmington, DL | |
Waco | YKS-7 | | | | N53361 | Used for “Barnstormer”
rides | |
Wright 1903 Flyer (replica) | | | | | G-BPVE | Doug Bianchi’s Blue Max Movie
Aircraft Museum | |