Bellanca CD

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.

[1] Bellanca had previously designed his own parasol aircraft in Sicily, bring the examples to New York to test fly.

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.