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Current Status

History

The Ryan was sold new on September 1, 1937 to William H. Stewart. The aircraft as crated and shipped to him at Northbrook, Illinois by rail. Mr Stewart was appointed a Ryan Dealer at about this time, and was based at Curtiss Airport in Milwaukee.

Sometime after June 1939 it was owned by the E.M. Laird Airplane Company, up to about January 1940.

Then it was sold to Captain Lawrence I. Aretz, a fixed base operator at Purdue University Airport, where it was used in the CPTP program.

On September 17th, 1940 the airplane was involved in an accident. The pilot was George Pickels, 22, of Evansville, Indiana. Pickels was practicing aerobatics for an advanced CPT test. He bailed out at about 300 feet in a relatively shallow dive, power on, but it was too low. The aircraft ended up in an alfalfa field on the Charles Jakes farm on the Morehouse gravel road eight miles North of W. Lafayette, Indiana. George Pickels was killed, and the aircraft was destroyed. No further details known, parts could still exist.

Ownership History

• William H. Stewart, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Northbrook, Illinois;
• E.M. Laird Airplane Company, Chicago, Illinois,
• Captain Lawrence I. Aretz, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

Current Ownership

Unknown

Notes

Via FAA records, N17365 is listed as not currently assigned.

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