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unusual facts about Bellanca



Anderson Greenwood Crosby

In the 1970s, the firm owned the Bellanca name for a while, and during this time attempted to market a new light plane design as the Bellanca Aries, but this did not sell.

August Bellanca

August Bellanca (born 1880 – 1969) was an American labor activist who was a founder and three-time vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA).

Bellanca 14-13

The Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior and its successors are a family of light aircraft that were manufactured in the United States by AviaBellanca Aircraft after World War II.

Bellanca 28-70

Purchased by British long-distance air racer Jim Mollison for $28,000, he renamed the aircraft Dorothy and used the Bellanca for a new transatlantic speed record but in 1937 sold the aircraft to the Republican government in Spain.

Bellanca Aircruiser

Another Bellanca Aircruiser, "CF-AWR" named the "Eldorado Radium Silver Express", built in 1935, is presently under restoration at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg.

Bellanca CH-300

In 1931, a Bellanca fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel, piloted by Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy, set a record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 33 minutes without being refuelled.

Victor Roos

In 1922 Roos, and partner A.H.Fetters bought the aviation assets of the Maryland Pressed Steel Company and formed the Roos-Bellanca company (Also known as the Omaha Aircraft Company) to build rising designer, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca's monoplane design, the Bellanca CF.


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