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Standard J-1
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Where you can see it today: San Diego Aerospace Museum, Balboa Park, San
Diego, CA
Current Status: static display
Cole's original Standard J-1 was traded to Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial
photography director Paul Mantz in 1957 for a Nieuport 28. (This is the same
Nieuport that flew at the Aerodrome from 1958-1972.) Apparently the Standard
was in better condition than the Nieuport because an extra $200 was given to Cole
along with the plane.
Tom Polapink researched this aircraft for us and found its current location and
some background information in WWI Aero issue #80, July 1980. The Standard
changed hands many times, as listed in the article:
"San-Diego Aero-Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA:c/n 1598, N2826D;
Wright Hisso E-2 with E-3 heads #5083; bought surplus US Army Salvage in
Americus, GA, by B A Bowers, Knoxville, TN in 1920; then to Roosevelt Field, to
Cole Palen, to Paul Mantz Air Service, Burbank, CA for $1000 in 1955; then to
Mantz Air, Inc, Santa Ana, CA for $1 in 1960; then rebuilt by Timm & Gurney (cf#7,
above [they rebuilt two other Standard J-1s for the movie "Spirit of St. Louis" with
Jimmy Stewart]); then sold at Parke-Bernet auction to Johan M Larson for museum
in Minneapolis, MN in 1967 for $1; then to San-Diego A-S Museum in 1978, for c
$30000; appeared in It's a Mad Mad Mad World in 1962."
Diego, CA
Current Status: static display
Cole's original Standard J-1 was traded to Hollywood stunt pilot and aerial
photography director Paul Mantz in 1957 for a Nieuport 28. (This is the same
Nieuport that flew at the Aerodrome from 1958-1972.) Apparently the Standard
was in better condition than the Nieuport because an extra $200 was given to Cole
along with the plane.
Tom Polapink researched this aircraft for us and found its current location and
some background information in WWI Aero issue #80, July 1980. The Standard
changed hands many times, as listed in the article:
"San-Diego Aero-Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA:c/n 1598, N2826D;
Wright Hisso E-2 with E-3 heads #5083; bought surplus US Army Salvage in
Americus, GA, by B A Bowers, Knoxville, TN in 1920; then to Roosevelt Field, to
Cole Palen, to Paul Mantz Air Service, Burbank, CA for $1000 in 1955; then to
Mantz Air, Inc, Santa Ana, CA for $1 in 1960; then rebuilt by Timm & Gurney (cf#7,
above [they rebuilt two other Standard J-1s for the movie "Spirit of St. Louis" with
Jimmy Stewart]); then sold at Parke-Bernet auction to Johan M Larson for museum
in Minneapolis, MN in 1967 for $1; then to San-Diego A-S Museum in 1978, for c
$30000; appeared in It's a Mad Mad Mad World in 1962."
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