The Bellanca CH-200 Pacemaker was a six-seat, high-wing, single-engine utility aircraft built in the United States in the 1920s. It was a development of the
Wright WB-2 that Bellanca had acquired the rights to in
1926 and was the first Bellanca-branded aircraft to gain a
type certificate
A type certificate signifies the airworthiness of a particular category of aircraft, according to its manufacturing design (''type design''). It confirms that the aircraft of a new type intended for serial production, is in compliance with applica ...
. The CH-200 was used in a number of pioneering long-distance flights and attempts on distance and endurance records.
Operational history
At the 1928 Los Angeles Air Races, a CH-200 piloted by
Victor Dallin took second place in the speed trials (average of ) and won the efficiency trials. The same year, Lt
Royal Thomas set a world endurance record of 35 hours 25 minutes in the ''Reliance'' (NX4484).
Colonel Hubert Julian set another record in Bellanca J-2 Special NR782W (s/n 1101), a modified CH-200 re-engined with a
Packard DR-980
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diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...
in which he stayed aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes, a record for diesels which has never been broken.
Between 11 December
1928
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and 25 June
1929
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, Peruvian aviators
Carlos Martínez de Pinillos and
Carlos Zegarra Lanfranco flew a CH-200 named ''Perú'' on a tour of Latin America. During that time, they covered in 157 hours 55 minutes of total flight, visiting 13 countries and 25 cities.
Specifications
See also
References
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aerofiles.com
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1920s United States civil utility aircraft
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Aircraft first flown in 1928