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The April 2023 issue of B-C Contact! has mailed. Not getting your copy? We can help: Join the Club Here The Complete Guide to Aeroncas, Citabrias and Decathlons has arrived and ready to mail. This 246 page color, updated revision (3rd Edition) of Don & Julia Downie's original tome can be ordered as B-418 from our Gift Shop or call the office for your copy. Sun getting in your eyes? ![]()
We have received an Airworthiness Concern from the FAA regarding all carburetors. You can read / download it from Here. If you decide to respond, please send a copy of your letter to Us as well. |
Lynn Ford is flying his newly restored Cruisemaster,
and it's a beauty!
Photo courtesy of Press1Photos.com
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, shown over the Bodger flower flag in Lompoc, CA.
Cmdr. Victor Mottarella, USN, Ret. (co-owner at the time with Bruce Fall) flew N9849B for the photo shoot.
'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
* This is a reference to
an ill-fated 1938 non-stop flight from Spain to
Cuba.
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,
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Bellanca-Champion Club Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Scheibe's beautifully restored Scout
...with his new Vortex
Generators installed.
Thierry Montigneaux
Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale <- Aeronca Champ 7AC - low and slow..