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Some of this information comes from the listings of Non-Prefixed and Non-Suffixed aircraft reviewed by me in the archives of the National Air & Space Museum (NASM, Washington, DC.
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RYAN B-1 BROUGHAM NC5553
An Entrant in the Ford Reliability Tour of 1928
This aircraft is a Ryan B-1 Brougham, S/N 118 (ATC 25). The B.F. Mahoney Aircraft Co., San Diego, CA manufactured it on June 16, 1928. It was equipped with a 220 HP Wright J-5AB Whirlwind engine, S/N 8496. It weighed 3,300 pounds.
NC5553 landed once at Glendale, on Thursday, April 23, 1931 at 2:25PM. The pilot was unidentified, but was probably Vance Breese. He carried one unidentified passenger. The airplane would go on to be a competitor in the 1928 Ford Reliability Tour, scheduled for July that year.
NC5553 also landed once at the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. Please follow the link to view its detailed technography, with a photograph, over at the Davis-Monthan Web site.
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