Help ID the strange aircraft preserved in Beijing
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Help ID the strange aircraft preserved in Beijing
This is a strange aircraft preserved in peking. I wonder what the exact type it is. It is PT-19 or someother type? Please help me and tell me why.
These are the photos of the aircraft.
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These are the photos of the aircraft.
My email is [email protected]
contact me if anyone has some helpful info on that.
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photos of the aircraft
photos of the aircraft
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- front view of the airframe
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other photos
other photos
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- motor label may give us some useful info.
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some other photos
some other photos
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This is a wing beside, does this belong to above aircraft.
This is a wing beside, does this belong to above aircraft.
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- This is a wing beside, does this belong to above aircraft.
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It is a Ryan STM-2E or -2P. Fifty delivered to China according to http://www.aerofiles.com/_ryan.html
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Sitzkrieg, Thank you very much!
Sitzkrieg, Thank you very much!
I am now writing an article for china popular aviation magazine named Aerospace Knowledge. This article is about the wreckage airframe of the ryan trainer/sport aircraft preserved in Beijing aivation museum. Your information is very helpful for me to ID the aircraft and to find more detail about it. Thank you very much!
Wang YaNan
Beijing China
2006 11 20
I am now writing an article for china popular aviation magazine named Aerospace Knowledge. This article is about the wreckage airframe of the ryan trainer/sport aircraft preserved in Beijing aivation museum. Your information is very helpful for me to ID the aircraft and to find more detail about it. Thank you very much!
Wang YaNan
Beijing China
2006 11 20
Plenty of images of a flying version in Dutch East Indies livery. Lives in NZ.
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/ryanstm.html
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/ryanstm.html
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What is the difference between Chinese Ryan and original STM
What is the difference between Chinese Ryan and original STM?
I did not see streamline landing gear fairing on Beijing aviation museum's Ryan STM, and i want to know wether it had that when it came to china in 1940s.
wang yanan
I did not see streamline landing gear fairing on Beijing aviation museum's Ryan STM, and i want to know wether it had that when it came to china in 1940s.
wang yanan
Update: The aircraft in your photos is definately a STM-2E, as the -2P was a single seat advanced fighter trainer armed with a single 0,30" (7,62mm) machine gun. Based on the year of purchase and considering that the Netherlands East Indies were acquiring similar aircraft at the same period, I think it would be safe to assume that they were in fact delivered with the streamlined landing gear fairings and spats. It is possible that they might have been removed while in service, to facilitate operations from muddy or rough fields, but that's another story.
Regards,
Sitz.
Regards,
Sitz.