Complex sentence: He had a 225-horsepower Bellanca aircraft, named "Columbia", ready for weeks, but Chamberlin's original co-pilot, Lloyed Bertaud, went to court to be reinstated as the co-pilot for the trip.
Split into simpler sentences: He had a 225-horsepower Bellanca aircraft, named "Columbia", ready for weeks. But Chamberlin's original co-pilot, Lloyed Bertaud, went to court to be reinstated as the co-pilot for the trip.