airline
An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...
founded by T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Mahoney at
Dutch Flats Airport
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in
San Diego
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, California, on April 19, 1925. They had earlier established a scheduled service between San Diego and Los Angeles with a fare of $14.50 one-way and $22.50 round-trip. (originally published in ''Aviation History''.
Operations
Service was provided by a
Standard J-1
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, a
World War I
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training aircraft (not widely liked by pilots) that they modified with a four-passenger closed cabin in the forward front cockpit area. The company also bought and modified the
Douglas Cloudster
The Douglas Cloudster was a 1920s American biplane aircraft. It was the only product of the Davis-Douglas Company, and was designed to make the first non-stop flight coast-to-coast across the United States.
Development
The Davis-Douglas Compan ...
(a
portmanteau
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Ryan M-1
The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s, the first original design built by Ryan.Taylor 1989, p. 774. It was a conventional gear parasol-wing monoplane with two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercar ...
for mail and passenger service, building the first of these in the fall of 1925 and 22 more within a year. When orders fell, Ryan and Mahoney ended the partnership in November 1926. Mahoney bought out Ryan's interest but kept using the name for several months.
Some of the airline's plane manufacturing was done under the name
Ryan Aeronautical Company
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 tech ...
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh made the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris, a distance o ...
, but this was not the business that later became
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
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 tech ...
. Lindbergh claimed that the name of the company he was dealing with was Ryan Airlines, Incorporated. In July 1927, shortly after Lindbergh's successful flight in the ''
Spirit of St. Louis
The ''Spirit of St. Louis'' (formally the Ryan NYP, registration: N-X-211) is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlant ...
'', the name of that business was changed to B. F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation.
See also
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List of defunct airlines of the United States
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People
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Organizations
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