Bellanca Trainer Picture and Viewing Problems

Robert Szego

Robert Szego

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Hear, hear!

Dan, I hope you like the Avatar I posted for you. In case anyone wants to know, the plane he is leaning on is the one and only Bellanca 14-14 trainer.
 
Robert:

There is a strange sentence at the bottom of your post, with a pink background:

"You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post."

What the devil is that?
 
Jonathan:

A very vague setting that prevented you from seeing the picture. Took a while, but I found the problem. You should be able to view the posted graphic now; about 2-3 postings up from here....

BTW, now that the Avatar limit has been lifted, can we see a more solid you?
 
Kevin:

1. On the bottom of this page you will find something called "Delete all Board Cookies" - click on it
2. Click on the "refresh" or "reload" buttons on your browser.

Let me know if the message is still there...
 
It is nice to see the 14-14 in flight.

I had seen it at Harvey Leydecker's hangar west of Birmingham, AL while it was being restored. Harvey spent a LOT of time talking to the few surviving original Bellanca people that had worked on it back when they were trying to get a government contract for WW2 trainers. When I was visiting him, he was trying to find a seat to match the one surviving seat that had come with the project. If I remember correctly, the other one had been destroyed, possibly in a fire before Harvey acquired the project.

I have some pictures of it from when he finished it and brought it down to the Southeastern Regional Fly-In in Evergreen, Alabama to show it off for the first time.

I am glad it has a good home with several other fine, rare Bellanca planes in Washington, now.

Dave York
 
I just got into the forum scene. It must be the fact that it is 20F in my hangar, now. I've known Harvey and Evelyn Leydecker for years before I bought the 'Trainer' from them. He insisted that I must take care of it. I had a lot of 'entertainment' getting it to the AAA fly-in at Blakesburg and the on to the Seattle area. It's fun to fly and have people try to guess what it is. In many ways, it flies like any pre-war Bellanca-but in other ways, it is much more different. It used modified 14-12 wings and horizontal stabs and elevators. It is powered by an Aircooled Motors {Franklin} 6AC-298F3, 130HP. engine and cruises 105-110 mph. Dan Cullman .
 
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