Bellanca CH-400 “Miss Veedol"

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The Bellanca CH-400 was a 6-place utility aircraft built in the 1930’s. This J-300 variant “Miss Veedol” was built in 1931 at Bellanca Airfield in New Castle, Delaware. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon flew Miss Veedol from Seattle to Japan. There, they modified the airplane to jettison the landing gear so a fuel load of 915 gallons could be carried for the 41-hour flight back to Seattle.  Due to a navigation error, they ended up crash landing at Fancher Field in Wenatchee WA.

Miss Veedol was repaired, then sold and renamed The American Nurse. In 1932, on an aviation medicine research flight from New York City to Rome she was last sighted over the eastern Atlantic, and then disappeared without a trace. The only remaining piece of the original Miss Veedol is the propeller that was damaged in the belly landing, and now resides in the Wenatchee Valley Museum in Wenatchee, WA. However, from 1996 – 2003, EAA members and aviation enthusiasts, to commemorate the historic Pacific crossing by these two relatively unknown aviators, built the Replica Miss Veedol.

This kit includes items standard in all Dare Design kits:  Laser Cut parts from contest balsa and lite-ply, instructional photo CD, full-size plans, instructions, vac-formed radial engine, fairings, wire, hardware, clear acetate, color decal sheet and more.