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AviaBellanca Aircraft Corporation
is an American
aircraft
design and manufacturing company.
Prior to 1983 it was known as the
Bellanca Aircraft Company.
The company was founded in 1927 by
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca.
After
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, the
designer and builder of Italy's
first aircraft, came to the United
States in 1911, he began to design
aircraft for a number of firms
including Maryland Pressed Steel
Company, Wright Aeronautical
Corporation and Columbia Aircraft
Company. Bellanca founded his own
company, Bellanca Aircraft
Corporation of America, in 1927,
sited first in Richmond Hill, New
York and moving in 1928 to New
Castle (Wilmington), Delaware. In
the 1920s and 1930s, Bellanca's
aircraft of his own design were
known for their efficient, low
operating cost gaining fame for
world record endurance and distance
flights. Lindbergh's first choice
for his New York to Paris flight was
a Bellanca WB-2. The company's
insistence on selecting the crew
drove Lindbergh to Ryan.
Bellanca remained President and
Chairman of the Board from the
corporation's inception on the last
day of 1927 until he sold the
company to L. Albert and Sons in
1954. From that time on, the
Bellanca line was part of a
succession of companies that
maintained the lineage of the
original aircraft produced by
Bellanca.
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