ORANGE COUNTY

Tallmantz Aviation has named Donald Segner, a former Lockheed Corp. test pilot and a former Federal Aviation Administration official, as a full-time consultant.

Tallmantz, based at John Wayne Airport, has been expanding its service in recent months and expects to begin building an executive jet center soon.

Segner, who retired from the Federal Aviation Administration six months ago, will help Tallmantz with FAA-related matters, international sales, and government and military contracts.

Segner probably is the kind of flier the company’s founders, Frank Tallman and Paul Mantz, would have wanted to hire.

As a military and civilian pilot, Segner has flown 150 different types of aircraft, including several Soviet aircraft, and was the first military pilot to fly airplanes that could take off and land vertically.

He returned to his Laguna Beach home in June after five years with the FAA.

Mantz and Tallman formed their company in 1961, principally to do stunt flying and aerial photography for movies and television.

Mantz was killed in 1965 during the filming of a movie scene and Tallman was killed in 1978 when he flew into a ridge of the Santa Ana Mountains during a storm.