[2] Bellanca was known mostly for his long range aircraft which led the way for the advancement of international and commercial air transportation.

[1] In 1916 Bellanca was in charge of the Maryland Pressed Steel Company aircraft division, hired for the purpose of designing and developing aircraft for World War I. Bellanca built two models of biplanes called the CD (single seater) and the CE (two seat trainer).

While both models outperformed the Army Jenny biplanes, the war ended and the military was no longer interested.

Called the Bellanca CF, this aircraft is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

This new airfoil sparked the era of commercial air transportation and militarily it made long range bombing possible.

[4] On April 12–14, 1927, Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta set a new world's non-refueled endurance record of 51.5 hours in the Bellanca designed WB-2.

Bellanca and Levine thought that it was suicidal to do so because no one could stay awake alone the required number of hours to complete the flight.

Ironically, Bellanca’s airplane had been complete several years before the Spirit of St. Louis and could have been first to cross the Atlantic had it not been for the lawsuit.

Columbia took-off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, and landed in Eisleben, Germany, after a forty-three hour flight.

[7] After refueling the crew arrived in Berlin where they were met by a crowd of 150,000 waving German and American flags.

This invention was the first fully retractable commercial landing gear ever developed and had been installed on the Rome during the previous year.

"[6] On October 3, 1931, a Bellanca model CH-400 Skyrocket named the Miss Veedol was the first aircraft to cross the Pacific non-stop.