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enough orders for planes to keep his facilities busy for months, many fully paid in advance.

During that year, the DuPonts decided to enter aviation and approached Bellanca about taking over his business, including a new factory and flying field at New Castle, Delaware.  Bellanca agreed.  Management difficulties occurred and the DuPont connections were short-lived.  As a result, the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation was reorganized and refinanced, stronger than before, with Bellanca in full control.

The business grew, first with commercial aircraft, then he entered the military field.  For some time Bellanca airplanes continued to set new endurance and long-distance flight records, flying across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  Several times Bellanca designed and built special planes primarily for such flights.

During the latter part of the 1930's he also entered the private plane market with the "Cruisair" model, using 70-120 h.p. engines.  During World War II the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation suspended all commercial plane activities and produced Boeing AT-15 and Fairchild AT-21 training planes for the Government.

After the war he again manufactured private aircraft for a time, then about 1954, he sold his interest in the Bellanca Corporation and retired to his rural estate, Sherwood Farm, near Galena, Maryland.  His interest in aviation continued and he experimented with new materials, simpler structural methods of aircraft construction and similar activities.  A victim of leukemia in gradually failing health, Bellanca passed away at age 74, on December 26, 1960, at New York Memorial Hospital.  He was survived by his wife, a son, four brothers and a sister.  He was a member of the Early Birds.

Aviation pioneer Guiseppe M. Bellanca devoted his entire life to aviation progress and development.  At the beginning, he was a professional graduate engineer, then a plane builder, self-trained aviator, instructor and manufacturer.

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