M-1 and M-2 | |
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Original Ryan M-1 NC2073 in Pacific Air Transport markings in the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, Creve Coeur airport, Missouri. | |
Role | Mailplane |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Ryan |
Designer | Hawley Bowlus, W A Mankey, John Northrop[1] |
First flight | 14 February 1926 |
Status | two airworthy in 2009 |
Number built | 36 |
The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s, the first original design built by Ryan.[2] It was a conventional gear parasol-wing monoplane with two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercarriage.[3]