title: Bellanca Aries
text: # 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 while Anderson-Greenwood owned the Bellanca name, it was a conventional low-wing monoplane with retractable tricycle undercarriage and a high T-tail. Federal Aviation Administration type certification was obtained on 28 July 1976.
  
  ## Specifications
  
  Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1980–81
  
  General characteristics
  
  * Crew: one pilot
  * Capacity: four passengers
  * Length: 26 ft 2 in (7.98 m)
  * Wingspan: 31 ft 4 in (9.55 m)
  * Height: 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m)
  * Wing area: 170 sq ft (15.8 $m^2)$
  * Airfoil: NACA 600412 modified
  * Empty weight: 1,850 lb (839 kg)
  * Max takeoff weight: 3,150 lb (1,429 kg)
  * Fuel capacity: 76 US gal (63 imp gal; 290 L)
  * Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-540-A4D5 flat-six piston engine , 250 hp (190 kW)
  * Propellers: 2-bladed Hartzell constant-speed propeller, 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) diameter
  
  Performance
  
  * Maximum speed: 215 mph (346 km/h, 187 kn) at sea level
  * Cruise speed: 200 mph (320 km/h, 170 kn) (65% power)
  * Stall speed: 64 mph (103 km/h, 56 kn) (wheels and flaps down)
  * Never exceed speed: 244 mph (393 km/h, 212 kn)
  * Range: 1,170 mi (1,880 km, 1,020 nmi) with four passengers
  * Service ceiling: 18,100 ft (5,500 m)
  * Rate of climb: 1,240 ft/min (6.3 m/s)
  