Reno Wrap-up

What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.

  • By Linda Shiner
  • AirSpaceMag.com, September 28, 2009
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El Cajon businessman Bill Allen took the trophy for the most meticulously restored warbird, a 1940 Ryan STM-2. Allen maintains a small museum packed with vintage aircraft and aviation memorabilia at Gillespie Field, an airport near San Diego.

Caroline Sheen


El Cajon, California, businessman Bill Allen took the trophy for the most meticulously restored warbird, a 1940 Ryan STM-2. Allen maintains a small museum packed with vintage aircraft and aviation memorabilia at Gillespie Field, an airport near San Diego. His STM-2 is a product of the company founded by T. Claude Ryan, who built The Spirit of St. Louis for Charles Lindbergh. In 1934, the Ryan Aeronautical Company built a fast little sportplane, the Ryan ST, which later evolved into the STM-2 military trainer.


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