Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker

The Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker was a six-seat utility aircraft built mainly in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. It developed the earlier CH-200 by fitting a 300 hp Wright J-6 engine in place of the 220 hp J-5, keeping the conventional braced high-wing monoplane layout, fixed tailwheel undercarriage and the characteristic flying struts of Bellanca designs. Late aircraft took a 420 hp Pratt and Whitney Wasp, which led to the CH-400 Skyrocket series. Pacemakers were prized for endurance, reliability and load carrying, and were popular in Alaska and the Canadian bush; the Royal Canadian Air Force used thirteen of them for aerial photography. A CH-300 flew the first nonstop flight from New York to Cuba in 1929, and the type took part in record flights across the Atlantic, including the Lituanica of 1933.