CF-BTW Bellanca
66-75 Aircruiser
(c/n 721)

The reason that
this 1938 Bellanca is carrying a 1947 series registration is that it
spent its early
years in the Philippines as
NPC-41. The image of
it below in those markings illustrates well
the sesquiplane layout of this ugly
(yet efficient) beast. From the Philippines it returned to
Canada in 1943 and went to MacKenzie Air
Services. By 1947 it was flying for Northern
Air
Services and became part of the motley Canadian Pacific Airlines fleet
plying the bush
services of northern Canada in the
late 1940s and 1950s. CF-BTW is now located at the
Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.