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The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in San Diego, California in 1934. It became part of Teledyne in 1969, and of Northrop Grumman when the latter company purchased Teledyne in 1999. Ryan built several historically and technically significant aircraft, including four innovative V/STOL designs, but its most successful production aircraft was the Ryan Firebee line of unmanned drones used as target drones and unmanned air vehicles.
T.C. Ryan, previously best known for building Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic Spirit of St. Louis, actually had no part in building the famous plane. Ryan had been owner or partner in several previous companies, one of which also bore the name Ryan Aeronautical. The Spirit of St. Louis was not built by the final Ryan Aeronautical entity. The new company's first aircraft was the Ryan ST or "Sport Trainer", a low-wing tandem-seat monoplane with a 95 hp (71 kW) Menasco B-4 "Pirate" straight-4 engine. Five were built before production switched to the Ryan STA (Aerobatic) with a more powerful 125 hp (93 kW) Menasco C-4 in 1935. This aircraft had enough power for aerobatic display, and it won the 1937 International Aerobatic Championships. A further improved Ryan STA Special was built in 1936, with a supercharged Menasco C-4S with 150 hp (112 kW).
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Aircraft
Ryan Aircraft: Ryan M-1 Mailplane / Ryan Spirit of St.Louis / Ryan S-C Sports Coupe / Ryan PT-22 Recruit / Ryan_Firebee_ (BQM-34A) /Ryan 260 Navion / Ryan FR.1 Fireball / Ryan X-13 Vertijet
Aermacchi Leonardo history. Leonardo Aircraft
Out of production
In 1966/67, Ryan was awarded the contract to build the digital Doppler radar system installed aboard the Apollo Lunar Lander. In 1968, the company was acquired by Teledyne for $128 million and a year later became a wholly owned subsidiary of that company as Teledyne Ryan. Claude Ryan retired as chairman with the Teledyne purchase. Northrop Grumman purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999, with the products continuing to form the core of that firm's unmanned aerial vehicle efforts.
The Ryan Aeronautical Company was founded by T. Claude Ryan in California,
Ryan X-13 Vertijet (company designation Model 69) was an experimental tail-sitting VTOL
Spirit of St. Louis (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) single-seat
Ryan Firebee is a series of target drones developed by the Ryan Aeronautical Company.
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