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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
    Construction Number:0195
    Last Civil Registration:N17349 {2}
    Compressed ID:Ryan ST-A cn 0195 cr N17349
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a STM.
    ST-A with two wing-mounted Lewis machine guns and enlarged cockpit cutouts.

    1938

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca.

    Circa 1946

    To Sam Poole.
    Acquired several disassembled Ryans from Guatemala.

    Circa 1947

    To LT. Col. Edward F. Ortowski.
    Purchased all the disassembled Ryans.

    Converted to a ST-A.
    From the disassembled Ryans Lt.Ortowski was able to construct one ST-A.

    By March 1962

    To LT. Col. Edward F. Ortowski with new c/r N17349 {2}.

    16 March 1962

    Certificate of airworthiness for N17349 {2} (ST-A, 195) issued.

    27 January 1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    After about a year of flying, the STA was extensively damaged in a ground accident. Before the reassembly could be completed, Edward was killed in an airplane crash. Ortowskis widow put the STA up for sale, and it was purchased by Walter Hill. (EAA Museum).

    To Walter Hill keeping c/r N17349 {2}.

    Restored.
    Restored the plane to original condition.

    2003

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, WI.
    Donated by Walter Hill.

    19 February 2004

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N17349 {2}.

    Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    21 January 2012


    Photographer: John Meneely

    10 September 2014

    Civil registration, N17349 {2}, cancelled.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for N17349 {2} (ST-A, 195) issued.

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    John Meneely
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