Bellanca CH-200 Pacemaker

The Bellanca CH-200 Pacemaker was a six-seat, high-wing, single-engine utility aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s. It developed from the Wright WB-2, whose rights Bellanca acquired in 1926, and was the first Bellanca-branded aircraft to receive a type certificate. Powered by a 220 horsepower Wright J-5 radial engine, it was 27 ft 9 in long with a wingspan of 46 ft 4 in, a maximum speed of 126 mph and a range of 800 miles. The type was used in several pioneering long-distance flights and record attempts. At the 1928 Los Angeles Air Races J. Victor Dallin took second place in the speed trials and won the efficiency trials, Royal Thomas set a world endurance record of 35 hours 25 minutes in the Reliance, and the Peruvian aviators Carlos Martínez de Pinillos and Carlos Zegarra Lanfranco toured Latin America in a CH-200 named Perú. The CH-300 and CH-400 were later developments.