VH-AGD  Ryan STM                                       (c/n  459)

                       

                            All the images in this entry were taken at Moorabbin, home base of this STM.   My own, above,
                            was in 1957, Jeff Atkinson's immediately below, was a year later (image via Nigel Daw), followed
                            by the Bob Dougherty photo (via the John Hopton Collection) taken in March 1961 showing the
                            diminutive machine either in the employ of, or advertising the local Galion Motor Grader dealership
                            Finally, at the foot of the page is a reproduction from a Ryan house journal, some time in the 1960s.
                            Some 20 odd Ryan STMs were registered in Australia after the war.  They were all ex Netherlands
                            East Indies Navy machines which were shipped out ahead of the Japanese advance.  VH-AGD was
                            S-23 with the NEI Navy and was, upon arrival in Australia, immediately impressed into service with
                            the RAAF as A50-11.  It was civilly  registered at the end of 1945.    It crashed at Mildura in 1967
                            but has since been rebuilt as VH-AWG  and is once more airworthy.