Editing Ryan Aeronautical (section)

{{Short description|American aeronautics company}}
{{Other uses|Ryan Airlines (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox company
|name = Ryan Aeronautical Company
|logo = Ryan Aeronautical Company logo.svg
|fate = Merged with [[Teledyne Technologies|Teledyne]]
|foundation = 1934
|founder = [[T. Claude Ryan]]
|defunct = 1969/1999
|location = [[San Diego, California]]
|successor = [[Northrop Grumman]]
}}
[[File:Ryan PT-22 Recruit N46502 OTT 2013 02.jpg|thumb|Ryan PT-22 Trainer]]

The '''Ryan Aeronautical Company''' was founded by [[T. Claude Ryan]] in [[San Diego]], California, in 1934. It became part of [[Teledyne]] in 1969, and of [[Northrop Grumman]] when the latter company purchased Ryan in 1999. Ryan built several historically and technically significant aircraft, including four innovative [[V/STOL]] designs, but its most successful production aircraft was the [[Ryan Firebee]] line of unmanned drones used as [[target drone]]s and [[unmanned air vehicle]]s.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9903/ryan-aeronautical-had-big-plans-for-the-vertifan-jump-jet| title = Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet|date= May 3, 2017|work = The Drive}}</ref>