Bellanca Airfield

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Coordinates: 39°39′52″N 75°35′13″W / 39.664307°N 75.586928°W / 39.664307; -75.586928
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Air Service, Inc. Hangar at Bellanca Airfield
Air Service, Inc. Hangar in 2012
Bellanca Airfield is located in Delaware
Bellanca Airfield
Bellanca Airfield is located in the United States
Bellanca Airfield
Location2 Centerpoint Blvd.,
New Castle, Delaware
Coordinates39°39′52″N 75°35′13″W / 39.664307°N 75.586928°W / 39.664307; -75.586928
Area2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built1936 (1936)
Built byJames Mullens; John E. Healy & Sons
Architectural styleAircraft Hangar
NRHP reference No.05000601[1]
Added to NRHPJune 15, 2005

The Bellanca Airfield was an airfield, aircraft plant, and service hangar built in 1928 by

Giuseppe Bellanca and Henry B. DuPont in New Castle, Delaware. Located off Route 273 near the Delaware River
, the plant produced approximately 3000 aircraft before closing in 1954.

The only surviving part of the airfield is the former Air Service, Inc. hangar, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1]

History

Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia

Bellanca immigrated from

Bert Acosta set the world endurance record for aircraft, staying aloft circling New York City for 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds and covering 4,100 miles, more than the 3,600 mile from New York to Paris. Time
magazine reported on April 25, 1927:

Engineer

Bellanca monoplane's normal cruising speed is 110 m.p.h. She would require only some 35 hours to reach Paris—if she could stay up that long again.[2]

Lindbergh had been unable to get the plane, and commissioned the

Berlin, Germany, a trip of 3,911 miles compared to the 3,600 mile route Lindbergh made from New York City to Paris to capture the Orteig Prize
.

The Air Service, Inc. Hangar at Bellanca Airfield was built about 1936, and is built predominately of concrete block with brick detailing at door openings and at the locations of the piers that support the wood roof trusses. It measures 60 feet by 180 feet, and is the only surviving piece of aviation history left at the former Bellanca Airfield.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Giuseppe M. Bellanca of the Columbia Aircraft Corporation had conditioned an elderly yellow-winged monoplane with one Wright motor, and scouted around for pilots. Lieut. Leigh Wade
    , round-the-world flyer, declined the invitation, saying Mr. Bellanca's plans were too stunt-like, not scientific.
  3. ^ Robin Bodo (January 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Air Service, Inc. Hangar at Bellanca Airfield". National Park Service. and accompanying five photos

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