| Aircraft | |
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| Registration / Serial: | NR13137 |
| Aircraft Original Type: | Bellanca CH-200 Pacemaker |
| Aircraft Generic Type: | Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker |
| Aircraft Version: | Bellanca J-300 |
| C/n (msn): | 3006 |
| Aircraft Name: | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Location | |
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| City / Airport: | New York - Floyd Bennett Field (closed)Map |
| Region / Country: | New York, United States |
| Airport Codes: | ICAO: - IATA: - Local: NOP Other: - |
| Photo Date: | 25 April 1933 to 13 May 1933 |
| Photo from: | AirHistory.net Photo Archive |
| Photo ID: | 485251 |
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The J-300 was a long-range version of the CH-300 Pacemaker. Repainted in orange and maroon in preparation, NR13137 took off for a non-stop transatlantic flight to Rome on 13 May 1937, but pilots George Pond and Cesare Sabelli came down in Ireland with a broken fuel line. They 'walked into Lahinch almost unobserved and, going to the Commercial Hotel there, booked rooms and went off to bed'. They eventually reached Rome and embarked on a reverse crossing, but crashed the aircraft into the Mynydd Carningli mountain, Wales, on 19 August. Pond and Sabelli were unhurt. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution This photo was added on 8 August 2022, and has since been viewed 342 times. |