Cesare Sabelli and Giuseppe Bellanca for the record
An Attempted Transatlantic Flight by Gianclaudio Polidori Cesare Sabelli, born in 1896 in Montepulciano (Siena, Italy) to upper middle-class parents, after having completed his education joined the Italian Royal Army as non-commission infantry officer. Posted initially to the 9th Army Regiment, he applied and was assigned later to the Corpo Aeronautica Militare (Air Force Corps). In the Battaglione Aviatori (Aviators Battalion) Sabelli earned his pilot brevet and soon after he began serving at San Giusto (Pisa), and later in Busto Arsizio and Malpensa. During the First World War, he served honorably, earning several Italian as well as Allied decorations. He had the opportunity to meet various important people of that era and collaborated with Fiorello La Guardia . After his discharge from the Army in 1920, Sabelli moved to the United States, where he started a very profitable real estate business. In the United States Sabelli maintain his pas