Vance Breese partnered with Detroit auto salesman, Charles Dallas to produce a modern, transcontinental, all-metal construction cargo aircraft.

The cockpit used a split forward slanting windshield popular on large aircraft of the period, with rearward sliding canopy panels over the pilots.

[2] Construction of the Model 1 started in September 1932 and the first flight was made in February 1933 by Vance Breese and Frederick Coe.

The aircraft was sold to Jacqueline Cochran in October 1936 for use in the 1936 Bendix Race, but on orders from her husband, a gear up landing was made.

The pilot was later jailed for smuggling aircraft in violation of the United States Neutrality Act which was blocking weapons from reaching government forces fighting against Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.