Ryan
PT-22
Recruit
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Photo: Robert Deering 10/28/2016
Executive Airport (RBD)
Dallas, Texas
Primary trainers represented the first of three stages of military flight training -- primary, basic and advanced. Prior to 1939, the Air Corps relied entirely on biplanes as primary trainers, but in 1940 it ordered a small number of Ryan civilian trainers and designated them as PT-16s. They were so successful that the Air Corps then ordered large numbers of improved versions, among them the PT-22. By the time production was completed in 1942, the Air Corps accepted 1,023 PT-22s. In 1942 the U.S. Army Air Forces took 25 additional trainers, originally ordered for the Netherlands.

Photo: Robert Deering 1985
National Museum of the USAF
Dayton, Ohio
Photo: Robert Deering 7/11/2004
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
Addison Airport (ADS)
Addison, Texas
Photo: Robert Deering 10/28/2016
Executive Airport (RBD)
Dallas, Texas
Photo: Robert Deering 7/21/2018
 Frontiers of Flight Museum
Love Field (DAL)
 Dallas, Texas
SPECIFICATIONS: PERFORMANCE:
Span: 30 ft. 1 in.
Length:  22 ft. 7 1/2 in.
Height:  7 ft. 2 in.
Empty Weight:  
Gross Weight:  1,860 lbs. maximum
Crew: 		Maximum speed: 125 mph
Cruising speed: 100 mph
Range: 205 miles
Service ceiling: 15,400 ft.
Engines:  Kinner R-540 of 160 hp
Armament:
   
SOURCE: National Museum of the United States Air Force