Editing Ryan Aeronautical (section)

=== Postwar ===
[[File:Teledyne-Ryan AQM-34N Firebee, 1962 - Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum - McMinnville, Oregon - DSC00908.jpg|thumb|right|Ryan AQM-34N Firebee, 1962 - [[Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum]] - [[McMinnville, Oregon]]]]
In the immediate postwar years, Ryan bought the rights to the [[North American/Ryan Navion|Navion]] [[light aircraft]] from [[North American Aviation]], selling it to both military and civilian customers.<ref name=ec/>{{rp|222–225}}

Ryan became involved in the missile and unmanned aircraft fields, developing the [[Ryan Firebee]] unmanned target drone, the [[Ryan Firebird]] (the first American air-to-air missile) among others, as well as a number of experimental and research aircraft.

Ryan acquired a 50% stake in [[Continental Motors Corporation]], the aircraft-engine builder, in 1965.<ref>Leyes, Richard A., and William A. Fleming, The History of North American Small Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1999: p.143 {{ISBN|1-56347-332-1}}</ref>

In the 1950s, Ryan was a pioneer in jet vertical flight with the [[X-13 Vertijet]], a tail-sitting jet with a delta wing which was not used in production designs. In the early 1960s, Ryan built the [[XV-5 Vertifan]] for the U.S. Army, which used wing- and nose-mounted lift vanes for [[V/STOL]] vertical flight. Other Ryan [[V/STOL]] designs included the [[VZ-3 Vertiplane]].<ref name=ec/>{{rp|226–235}}

Ryan developed the highly accurate radar system used on the [[Apollo Lunar Module]].<ref name=ec/>{{rp|237–238}}

In 1968, the company was acquired by [[Teledyne]] for $128&nbsp;million and a year later became a wholly owned subsidiary of that company as Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Company.<ref name=ec/>{{rp|237}}

[[Northrop Grumman]] purchased Teledyne Ryan in 1999, with the products continuing to form the core of that firm's unmanned aerial vehicle efforts.