The Bellanca 31-40 Senior Pacemaker and its derivatives were a family of a six- and eight-seat utility aircraft built in the United States in the late 1930s. They were the final revision of the original late 1920s Wright-Bellanca WB-2 design. The model numbers used by Bellanca in this period reflected the wing area (in this case, 310 square feet) and engine horsepower (400 and up in this series), each divided by ten. Like their predecessors, these were high-wing braced monoplanes with conventional tailwheel undercarriage.
31-42 Senior Pacemaker - Fitted with a redesigned tail surface, accommodation for one pilot and five passengers, powered by a 550-hp (410-kW) Pratt & Whitney Wasp S3H1 radial piston engine.
L-11 - One 31-50 impressed into service by the United States Army Air Forces in Alaska in 1942.
31-55 Senior Skyrocket
JE-1 - Senior Skyrocket version for US Navy with 570 hp (425 kW) engine
de Luxe Senior Skyrocket - 31-55 with improved instrumentation and superior interior and exterior finishes, powered by a 525-hp (391-kW) Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial piston engine.
Model 31-55A - Built under licence in Canada by Northwest Industries.
Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney Wasp air-cooled 9-cylinder radial engine, 550 hp (410 kW)
Performance
Maximum speed: 190 mph (310 km/h, 170 kn) at 5,000 ft (1,500 m)
Cruise speed: 180 mph (290 km/h, 160 kn) at 12,000 ft (3,700 m)
Stall speed: 64 mph (103 km/h, 56 kn)
Range: 600 mi (970 km, 520 nmi)
Service ceiling: 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
Rate of climb: 1,240 ft/min (6.3 m/s)
Referencesedit
^"Aviation". Reynolds Museum. Government of Alberta. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
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"American Planes and Engines for 1939: Airplanes of 6 or more Seats". Aviation. Vol. 38, no. 2. February 1939. pp. 46–47.
Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. pp. 149–50.
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