Ryan Airline Company

Ryan Airline Company was an American airline and aircraft builder founded by T. Claude Ryan and Benjamin Franklin Frank Mahoney at Dutch Flats Airport in San Diego, California, on April 19, 1925. On March 1, 1925, they had established a scheduled air service between San Diego and Los Angeles, the Los Angeles-San Diego Air Line, the first scheduled passenger air service operated wholly over the contiguous United States and throughout the year, with a fare of 14.50 dollars one way and 22.50 dollars round trip. The company built the Ryan NYP, the Spirit of St. Louis flown across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh.