Oshkosh award-winning Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker CF-ATN arrived at the Termikas workshop in Vazatkiemis, Lithuania during early December following transportation in a crate from Norman Wells in Canada's Northwest Territories. This rare survivor of the six-seat utility machine had been operated on floats by North Wright Airways at Norman Wells since the summer of 2017.The 1929-built machine won the Silver Age - 1928-36 - Outstanding Closed Cockpit Monoplane award at the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture show at Oshkosh in July 2016 for its then owner, Oregon City-based John Pike, just days after it had flown again following a ground-up rebuild by the Oregon-based restoration company Big Sky Stearman.A total of 35 CH-300s were built by Bellanca at New Castle, Delaware. With its distinctive lifting wing strut configuration, the type soon became popular in Canada and Alaska as a good load-lifting 'bush-plane!
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