This aircraft is a Ryan B-1 Brougham, S/N 59 (ATC 25). It shares lineage with the “Spirit of St. Louis”, but was built during the following year. The B.F. Mahoney Aircraft Co., San Diego, CA manufactured it on 1/6/1928. It was equipped with a 220 HP Wright J-5C engine, S/N 8172. It weighed 3,300 pounds.

Southwest Ryan Airlines, Inc., 1204 Atlas Bldg., Tulsa, OK (Al Henley, Mgr.) purchased it on 1/13/28. This Ryan passed through the Davis-Monthan Airfield once on 1/13/1928, enroute from San Diego to San Antonio. Although not specified in the Register, this must have been a ferry flight from the factory to its next owner, John Frost of San Antonio, who bought the airplane on 1/16/28.

It changed hands four more times until 1936. It must have had terrible treatment, since the records describe the “fabric on fuselage & tail surfaces in bad condition” in 1930. In 1931 it suffered minor damage, “but rear of fuselage & tail surfaces found broken & bent from service prior to accident. Disapproved on insp. 7/14/31.” In 1936, its last owner writes, “This ship has been thoroughly dismantled and scattered over the proverbial half-acre. The engine is now on my Travel Air and the rest is on several other ships.”