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    Airframe Family: Ryan ST / PT-16 / PT-20 / PT-21 / PT-22 Recruit / PT-23 / PT-25
    Latest Model:ST-A
    Last Military Serial:A50-31 RAAF
    Construction Number:0476
    Last Civil Registration:N7779
    Compressed ID:Ryan ST-A sn A50-31 RAAF cn 0476 cr...
    Latest Owner or Location:Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire - Central, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1940

    Constructed as a ST-A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Netherlands East Indies Air Fo with s/n S-40.

    From December 1940 to February 1941

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from California to Netherlands East Indies.

    February 1942

    All available MLD Ryans were prepared for shipment to Australia ahead of the Japanese advance through Netherlands East Indies.

    From 27 August 1942 to 20 February 1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A50-31.

    22 November 1945

    To Brown (and) Dureau Pty Ltd, Melbourne Vic with new c/r VH-AGZ.

    29 June 1946

    To Leslie G. Mahon, Launceston Tas keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    10 July 1950

    To Ivo K. Robb, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    15 February 1951

    To J. R. Skinner, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-AGZ.


    Photographer: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

    30 January 1952

    To Leslie G. Mahon, Launceston Tas keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    12 January 1957

    To G. A. Seymour, Melbourne Vic keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    3 August 1957

    Crashed.
    Crashed, struck power lines, Corowa NSW.

    12 December 1959

    Repair completed.
    Airframe log quotes in summary of rebuild: new tail cone from c/n 448 Dutch Navy S-12 is fitted and front cockpit reskinned. S-12 was STM-S2 c/n 448: no record of S-12 being shipped to Australia: assumed parts were among spares to Australia from NEI 2.1942.

    8 April 1961

    To B. O. Buchanan, Seymour Vic keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    15 November 1963

    To Ewan R. D. MacKay, Acurosedaleac Station, Jericho QLD keeping c/r VH-AGZ.

    January 1969

    To Dorr B. Carpenter, Lake Bluff Illinois USA.

    July 1969

    To Dorr B. Carpenter, Lake Bluff Illinois USA with new c/r N288Y.

    29 September 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7779 (ST-A, 476) issued.

    October 1969

    To Jeff Cannon, CA keeping c/r N288Y.

    October 1969

    Transported by air.
    Airfreighted to California by United Airlines DC-8 freighter.

    1970

    To Mike Cuddy, Thousand Oaks CA.

    January 1975

    To Mitch Mayborn, Dallas TX.
    Purchased dismantled, partly restored.

    Circa February 1975

    Transported by ground.
    Moved by road from Los Angeles to Dallas Texas.

    Circa November 1975

    To Mitch Mayborn, Dallas TX with new c/r N7779.

    28 February 1986

    To William R. Rose, Barrington IL keeping c/r N7779.

    1996

    Restoration continued.

    28 July 2003

    Markings Applied: S-11
    Noted at Oshkosh Fly-In.

    Circa 2005

    Based at Wings and Rotors Air Museum, French Valley Airport, Murrieta, CA.
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    22 March 2006

    To James I. Morris Trustee, Murrieta, CA keeping c/r N7779.

    18 September 2017

    Civil registration, N7779, cancelled.

    17 January 2019

    To James I. Morris Trustee, Coronado, CA with new c/r N7779.

    1 April 2019

    To Arnaldo M. Leon, Las Vegas, NV keeping c/r N7779.

    August 2020

    Based at Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire-Central, England.
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    5 July 2021


    Photographer: Alf Milliken
    Notes: Photographed at Old Warden (home to the Shuttleworth Collection) on the Monday morning.


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