Bellanca Aries

The Bellanca T-250 Aries was a light airplane built in the United States in the early 1970s, which achieved only limited production. It was designed by Marvin Greenwood in Texas while his company, Anderson-Greenwood, owned the Bellanca name, and it was offered as a Bellanca product. The Aries was a conventional low-wing monoplane with a retractable tricycle undercarriage and a high T-tail. A notable feature was the deliberately chosen near absence of curved lines aft of the engine, meant to facilitate production, while a laminar flow design was chosen for the wings to attain good cruising speeds. Unlike the Bellanca Viking, which had wooden wings, the Aries was an all-metal aeroplane. Federal Aviation Administration type certification was obtained on 28 July 1976. The variants were the T-250 Aries and the AG-250 Aries, and Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1980-81 lists a crew of one pilot, four passengers and a 250-horsepower Lycoming O-540 flat-six piston engine.