The Ryan PT-22 Recruit was the main military version of the civil Ryan ST and served as a primary pilot trainer with the United States Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces during the Second World War. Developed in 1941 from the ST-3KR, it was the Air Corps first purpose-built monoplane trainer. The airframe was a stressed-skin monocoque fuselage with spruce-spar wings covered in fabric and aluminium, a steerable tailwheel, oleo-strut landing gear and a single Kinner R-540 radial engine of 160 horsepower. Wheel spats and fairings were deleted from production aircraft to ease maintenance. Orders from the Netherlands could not be delivered after its fall, so those airframes were taken by the United States as the PT-22A, and the US Navy ordered another 100. After the war it was retired from the Air Forces and it is now a popular warbird, with many displayed or airworthy.
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
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Operational history, development
The PT-22 was developed in 1941 from the civilian Ryan ST series.
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
Operational history, retirement
but with the end of the war, was retired from the USAAF.
Specifications (PT-22), empty weight
Empty weight: 1,308 lb (593 kg)
Specifications (PT-22), maximum takeoff weight
Max takeoff weight: 1,860 lb (844 kg)
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
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is a military trainer aircraft that was used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
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Variants, US military designations
Military production version of ST-3KR with Kinner R-540-1 engine; 1,048 built, including PT-22As.
Variants, manufacturer designations, ST-3KR engine
Variant of ST-3 with a Kinner R-5 radial engine of 160 hp, one built.
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