The Bellanca CD was the first aircraft designed for the Maryland Pressed Steel Company, by the aircraft designer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca. The aircraft was also called the Bellanca C.D. or the "CD Tractor Biplane".
6-651: In 1916, the Maryland Pressed Steel Company hired Giuseppe Mario Bellanca to develop a two-seat biplane with intention to sell examples to the government during the war effort. The two seat plane was built at the Pope Avenue factory in Hagerstown, Maryland , and test flown at Doub's Meadow field. On what is now South Hagerstown High School. Bellanca had previously designed his own parasol aircraft in Sicily, bring
12-576: A shortage of engines from France. In 1921 The airplane business was sold to Bellanca and partner Victor Roos from Omaha, Nebraska forming the Roos-Bellanca Company . Bellanca left for Wright Aeronautical updating the CF design into the famous Wright WB-2 , which was sold to the Columbia Aircraft Corp . Bellanca continued to produce aircraft with his own company AviaBellanca Aircraft . At
18-609: The Kreider Reisner Aircraft Company . The follow on aircraft, was the Bellanca CE , with a 55 hp engine. Data from Air and Space Museum General characteristics Performance Maryland Pressed Steel Company Maryland Pressed Steel Company was an American aircraft manufacturer of the Bellanca CD, and CE aircraft. The New York & Hagerstown Metal Stamping Co manufactured arms for
24-586: The British and was reorganized into the Maryland Pressed Steel Company in 1914. In 1916, the Poole Engineering and Machine Co acquired the company as a division. The company produced arms for the wartime effort. The company attempted to break into the lucrative aircraft production field with the foundation of their Aircraft Department. In 1917 during World War I, designer Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
30-631: The examples to New York to test fly. The Bellanca Aeroplane Company and Flying School was formed in 1911 at Mineola Long Island New York, where Bellanca taught the Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia . The Bellanca CD was a two-seat biplane using wing warping for roll control. Although 6 examples were built, the aircraft did not go into full production after the end of World War I brought a halt to new contracts. One employee, Lewis E. Reisner, went on to form Reisner Aero Service Company in Hagerstown, which eventually became
36-513: Was hired to build six aircraft for the company in its factory at Hagerstown, Maryland . The two passenger 35 hp CD model biplanes were demonstrated at Towson, Maryland in August 1918 in an attempt to win a military contract. The 55 hp CE aircraft were advertised at a cost of $ 3500, but only one was produced after the war's end. Bellanca announced in May 1920 that it could not produce aircraft due to
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