Tallmantz pages

Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:39 am

I've juiced up my Mantz/Tallman/Tallmantz pages with a photo gallery and expanded aircraft listings, for those so interested.

http://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz.htm

Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:24 am

Very cool stuff; thanks a lot!

Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:58 am

Love the Tallmantz stuff!
Thanks for continually updating it! (and us!)
Jerry

Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:46 pm

Any photos of a 450 Stearman they had for airshows from about 1946 to 1950? My dad had a Stearman when I was a kid that had been owned by them and it had some logbook entries by Frank Tallman where he had done airshows in Santa Barbara and elsewhere after the war. I think the original N-number ended in "V".
Thanks

Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:56 pm

marine air wrote:Any photos of a 450 Stearman they had for airshows from about 1946 to 1950? My dad had a Stearman when I was a kid that had been owned by them and it had some logbook entries by Frank Tallman where he had done airshows in Santa Barbara and elsewhere after the war. I think the original N-number ended in "V".
Thanks

No pictures, but Scott's list of Tallmantz aircraft has PT-17 75-7332 N5001V on it.
Is that the one you are referring to?

Last edited by Warbirdnerd on Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:07 pm

Man that looked like one cool museum they had.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:14 pm

That N5001V sounds familiar but my records show the serial number would have been 75-7613, a PT-17. Those guys probably bought a block of them at auction. This one had a P&W 450, and the one mod that Tallmantz did is it had a headrest made out of aluminum added to the back cockpit, similar to say, a Waco UPF-7.

Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:42 pm

marine air wrote:Any photos of a 450 Stearman they had for airshows from about 1946 to 1950? My dad had a Stearman when I was a kid that had been owned by them and it had some logbook entries by Frank Tallman where he had done airshows in Santa Barbara and elsewhere after the war. I think the original N-number ended in "V".
Thanks

I confess I'm confused as Tallman didn't move his operation to California from Illinois until 1957 or so. I suppose Tallman could have done an airshow in CA but he was working and in the Navy in Illinois until about 1950. Curious. It may have been a Mantz Stearman but Tallman and Mantz did not hook up until 1961.