8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Ryan Brougham: Pi3.124· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Ryan B-1 Brougham floatplane: San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives· Public domain
- 3. Ryan B-1 Brougham L'Air December 1,1927: L'Air magazine· Public domain
- 4. Ryan B-5 Brougham L'Aéronautique September,1929: L'Aéronautique magazine· Public domain
- 5. Ryan Brougham airplane with Bud Gurney and Kennesaw Landis: SDASM Archives· Public domain
- 6. Ryan Brougham floatplane L'Aéronautique April,1929: L'Aéronautique magazine· Public domain
- 7. Ryan Brougham right front Aero Digest February 1927: Aero Digest Magazine· Attribution
- 8. Ryan Brougham right side Aero Digest February 1927: Aero Digest Magazine· Attribution
what is it?
The Ryan Brougham was a small single-engine airliner produced in the United States in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Its design was reminiscent of the M-1 mailplane first produced by Ryan in 1926, and like it, was a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane of conventional design.
How to recognise it: 1 engine · 12.8 m wingspan
base stats
Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).
fun facts
- First flew 99 years ago, in 1927.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- Wingspan of 12.8 m: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Range of 1,130 km: 6× Amsterdam to Brussels.
spec sheet
- first flight
- 1927
- number built
- 212
- role
- airliner
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- engines
- 1× Wright J-5
- passengers
- 4
- length
- 8.5 m
- wingspan
- 12.8 m
- height
- 2.7 m
- max take-off weight
- 1,497 kg
- top speed
- 201 km/h
- range
- 1,130 km
- ceiling
- 4,900 m
Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7383910, Wikipedia: Ryan Brougham (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.