Chester Swea Pea NX8400H
Chester Swea Pea NX8400H formula one racer; race number 5 ca 1949 - Information: Art Chester of Chicago IL. Air Racing Chester designed and built the Chester Swee Pea, NX8400H, in 1947. Powered by an 85hp Continental C85; span: 17'8" length: 16'0".Two of the midget racers were built; the Y-tailed Swee Pea NX8400H. Swee Pea was sold to Chester's mechanic, Lynn Kauffold and modified with a conventional tail as the Kauffold Sky Baby (span: 18'6" length: 17'6"), with the registration losing the X as N8400H, flown by Bill Broadback, Lynn Kauffold and Paul Penrose. (A second aircraft was built with conventional tail, as the Swee Pea II N4000K, (a.k.a. ARC from corporate name, Air Race Chester), which crashed at San Diego on 4/24/49, killing Art Chester)
