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Dear Bellanca-Champion Club Members,
By now many of you have heard the news that Robert Szego, President of the B-C Club, has passed away. Robert had spent the past 26 years bringing together this network of Bellanca and Champion aircraft owners and loved every minute of it- from writing and editing the newsletters, to planning fly-ins, but most importantly connecting members worldwide and advocating to keep every plane possible flying.
Our
West Coast Fly-In
was a huge success by any measure.
More of each type, the usual high quality airplanes, the enthusiasm, the camaraderie ...
Join us next year, June 6-8, 2008.
Details and award winners
in the July issue of B-C Contact!
First new Super Viking from Alexandria Aircraft! Seen at AirVenture and Sun 'n Fun 2006!
Right: John Morrison and his 260, who won the Outstanding in Type award.
Champion Lancer (Model 402) is the only post-WWII multi-engine airplane produced by either Bellanca or the Aeronca/Champion factories. The article in the October 2003 (13-4) issue of B-C Contact! provides some of the unique aspects and pictures, and prompted a letter from another member (issue 14-1) who had trained in one in the sixties.
Greg Koontz in action over his new digs. He'll teach you how to do this...
The 1940 issue of Popular Aviation shows the Bellanca (Cruisair) Junior. Unfortunately, no story within.
AOPA has a regular page in this magazine, this time by Gill Robb Wilson
Around the World in a 1949 Cruisair...
More on Willi & Elisabeth's Long Trip
Final installment of this travelogue appears in our January 2002 issue of B-C Contact!
A Very Disappointing Wing Spar Airworthiness Directive
was issued by the FAA, disregarding your comments and suggestions. Explanations, comments, documents, pictures of affected spars and more are available
on our
Wing Spar AD Site
We are pleased to host Leo Horishny's Bellanca website - a look at Bellancas back...
when they were BIG
Jan Zatloukal's Cruisemaster was the last 14-19-2 built,
seen here with prior owner Bruce Fall flying over the Bodger flower flag in Lompoc, CA.
'Say Type Aircraft'.. A reference to the type designators that will identify your aircraft and its performance to the controller. |
'Cuatro Vientos*' is a 1965 Citabria
belonging to Jorge & Elvira Suarez
Verl Scheibe's
beautifully restored Scout
...with his new Vortex Generators installed.
Call us for your 10% Discount Voucher (now STCd for all 7 & 8 series)
AviaBellanca Skyrocket III ->
We received this from the F.A.I., the international organization that verifies and awards official aviation world records:You may be interested to know that we have a number of Bellanca aircraft world records in our lists of world-class performances... A Skyrocket II still holds the 'speed over a closed circuit course of 100 / 500 / 1000 km' records in the concerned weight sub-class.
With Best regards,
Thierry Montigneaux
Fédération Aéronautique Internationale
<- Aeronca Champ 7AC - low and slow..
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