Ryan Aeronautical
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For other uses, see Ryan Airlines (disambiguation).
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.[1]
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Founded | 1934 |
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Founder | T. Claude Ryan |
Defunct | 1969/1999 |
Fate | Merged with Teledyne |
Successor | Northrop Grumman |
Headquarters | San Diego, California |
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