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6 unusual facts about Ryan Airlines


Donald A. Hall

He returned to Douglas Aircraft, and began working part time for Ryan Airlines in San Diego.

Hall left Ryan Airlines in 1929 after the company became Mahoney-Ryan Airlines and later relocated to St. Louis.

Great Planes Model Manufacturing

One of Great Planes' recent offerings, a scale Ryan STA sheeted in their Monokote covering, is flight ready after only fifteen hours of assembly.

Ryan Airlines

Ryanair, a budget airline based in the Republic of Ireland

Ryan Air Services, a cargo and passenger airline operating in Bush Alaska

Ryan Airline Company, an early aviation concern associated with Charles Lindbergh



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Donald A. Hall

Lindbergh later stated in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Spirit of St. Louis, that the decision to go with Ryan Airlines would depend primarily on his estimate of the chief engineer, Donald Hall.

T. Claude Ryan

The first aircraft this company, Ryan Airlines, produced was called the Ryan M-1 mail plane developed in 1926.It was the first production monoplane in the country.