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. Designed by Marvin Greenwood in Texas while his company, Anderson-Greenwood, owned the Bellanca name, it was offered as a Bellanca product. It was a conventional low-wing monoplane with retractable tricycle undercarriage and a high T-tail. One notable feature is the deliberately chosen near absence of curved lines aft the engine, meant to facilitate production. On the other hand, 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.