BELLANCA CH NC4799

Raced in the 1928 National Air Races

This airplane is a Bellanca CH (S/N 105; ATC #47) manufactured April 1, 1928 by the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation of America, Staten Island, NY.  It left the factory with a Wright Whirlwind J-5AB engine (S/N 8310) of 200 HP. It was a six-place airplane and weighed 4,050 pounds.

NC4799 was purchased for $13,000 on August 15, 1928 by Henri B. duPont of Wilmington, DE.  DuPont entered the airplane in the 1928 National Air Races, to be piloted by Victor Dallin.

We find NC4799 at Tucson twice, on September 10th and September 20, 1928 piloted by Victor Dallin.  He was the owner/operator of Dallin Aerial Surveys Co., 1924-1941.  His mission that brought him to these two visits at Tucson was to take aerial images of the Race at Los Angeles, and to compete in the Efficiency Race and the Speed Race.

About a year after the race, duPont transferred the airplane to his company, Delaware Flying Service, Inc. on December 2, 1929. It suffered an accident at Rehoboth Beach, DE on July 13, 1930.  The left gear, engine mount, fuselage and right wing were repaired, and the left wing and left struts were replaced with new.

The airplane sold for $1,000 on February 18, 1932 to Elbert B. Anding of Queens, NY.  In 1932 the airplane was transferred to the Dominican Republic and it operated there and in Haiti from 1932-34.  The record states no change in registration was required. 

On May 5, 1936 the airplane was sold to Emilio Solerzano of Havana, Cuba.  Anding was deceased by August 1941, when the airplane was in operation for the Cuban-Dominican Sugar Company and the West Indies Sugar Corp. No further information.

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