While browsing a dusty photo album I was pleased to find an early photo of my Uncle and Aunt taken in the Spring of 1946. The backdrop airplane, a Spartan Executive Model 7W, was owned and flown at the time by movie consultant and stunt pilot Paul Mantz. Uncle was a licensed Airframe and Powerplant mechanic and may very well have turned wrenches on the aircraft. Impressively, a search reveals that NC17656 S/N 25 (N47W) survives to this day.It was built 10/31/1939, the 25th of the 34 produced. First sold to Luziers of Mississippi. It was one of sixteen Spartan 7W’s impressed into service as Staff transports as a UC-71 (USAAF 1942 serial 38288) during the war years. It was returned to civil registry in 1945 as you see it here.