Ryan M-1

what is it?

The Ryan M-1 was a mail plane produced in the United States in the 1920s. It was the first original design built by Ryan Aeronautical. It was a conventional gear parasol-wing monoplane with two open cockpits in tandem and fixed, tailskid undercarriage.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 piston engine with propeller · shoulder wing · 11 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 200 km/htop speed
• range 640 kmwithout refuelling
• seats 2passengers
• size 1,230 kgmax take-off weight
• built 36made in total

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 100 years ago, in 1926.
• 🏎️Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 11 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

piston: A car-like piston engine turning a propeller: simple and cheap, the classic small plane.

spec sheet

first flight

1926

introduced

1926

number built

36

role

mailplane

origin

🇺🇸 United States

engines

1× Hispano-Suiza 8A / Whirlwind

passengers

2

length

7.3 m

wingspan

11 m

max take-off weight

1,230 kg

top speed

200 km/h

range

640 km

wings

shoulder wing

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.