- In 1946, Mantz purchased 475 surplus bombers and fighters for $55,000, anticipating a postwar boom in war movies. He converted one of these, a B-25 bomber he christened "The Smasher", into a state of the art flying camera platform that he would use for the next 20 years.
- Pallbearers at his funeral included his friend James Stewart, General James Doolittle, director John Ford, and test pilot Chuck Yeager.
- According to Bob Fish of the Associated Airtanker Pilots, Danville California: Mantz installed a rubber bladder in the bomb bay of his WWII TBM Avenger and filled it with water. Thus becoming the first to demonstrate the incredible value of aerial technology in wildfire suppression.
- He was the technical adviser to Amelia Earhart on her first around-the-world flight attempt, but was dismissed before her second, fatal attempt. Earhart was name co-respondent in Mantz's 1936 divorce.
- First pilot to perform the stunt of flying an airplane through an open hangar in Air Mail (1932).
- Won the Bendix Trophy airplane races three years running, 1946-1948.
- To get the attention of producers (who would not hire him), he performed an "outside loop" - a loop where the plane is upside-down at the bottom of the circle - in July, 1930, using a plane he specially modified for the stunt.
- He had a son, Albert Paul Mantz Jr. (born August 21, 1938) with his second wife, Terry.
- Shot the aerial footage for This Is Cinerama (1952) and other early Cinerama travelogues.
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