The Bellanca TES was an experimental aircraft constructed by Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca was an Italian-American airplane designer and builder who created the first enclosed cabin monoplane in the United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display at the National Air & Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.-Biography:He was born on March 19, 1886 in...

. Aircraft registration was NR855E.
Aircraft was originally built in 1929 for the price of $25,000 price for the first non-stop flight from Seattle to Tokyo . In 1930 was refitted with two 600hp Curtiss Conqueror

Curtiss V-1570

|-See also:-Bibliography:* Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. ISBN 1-85260-163-9-External links:...

 engines and overbuilded for the Chicago Daily News

Chicago Daily News

The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...

 as a cargo plane named The Blue Streak.

The aircraft crashed on 1931-05-26, when rear propeller drive shaft was broken due the vibration. All crew (Shirley J. Short - the pilot, Richard K. Peck - the copilot, Louis Rice - the radio operator, Robert W. Gormley - a mechanic) perished.

Specifications (with Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines)

External references

• Page dedicated to Shirley S. Short
• Bellanca TES images from the archive of San Diego Air & Space Museum