Ryan Aeronautical
10 aircraft types.
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 Ryan 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.
- Founded
- 1934
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- San Diego
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Aircraft types
BQM-145 Peregrine
type of aircraft
First flight 1992
FR-1 Fireball
1944 fighter aircraft model by Ryan
Ryan AQM-91 Firefly
long-range reconnaissance drone
First flight 1968
Ryan Model 147
jet-powered drone
First flight 1962
Ryan VZ-3 Vertiplane
Experimental Aircraft
First flight 1958
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Ryan XV-5 Vertifan
experimental aircraft model by Ryan Aeronautical
Ryan XV-8
military aircraft
First flight 1961
Ryan YQM-98
type of aircraft
First flight 1974
Teledyne Ryan Scarab
type of aircraft
First flight 1988
XFR-1 Fireball
prototype fighter aircraft model by Ryan Aeronautical