Lycoming is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines. Headquartered in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed, air-cooled, four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines available including the only FAA-certified aerobatic and helicopter piston engines on the market. The company has built more than 325,000 piston aircraft engines and powers more than half the world's general aviation fleet, both rotary and fixed wing. The company is currently part of Textron's Avco Corporation.
History
Sewing machines, bicycles and fashion
Lycoming claims to have been founded in 1845 by "Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest"; however, the early history of the company (especially prior to 1860) is unclear (biographer Ishbel Ross notes that the marriage of Ellen Louise Curtis to William Jennings Demorest took place in 1858, somewhat later than the purported date of establishment of the company). In New York, New York, between c. 1860 and 1887, the Demorests published fashion magazines and operated the Demorest Fashion and Sewing-Machine Company (sometimes known as the Demorest Manufacturing Company) producing "Madame Demorest" and "Bartlett & Demorest" sewing machines and selling Ellen Demorest's innovative paper patterns for dressmaking. During this period, Ellen Demorest patented several fashion accessories, while her husband patented improvements to sewing machines and an apparatus for the vulcanization of rubber.
This 1956Chipmunk has 2,750 hours on the airframe and 386 hours since overhaul on its Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 engine. The aircraft is equipped with airshow smoke systems for the engine exhaust and the wings.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily. Today’s Top Pick is a 1960 Piper PA-22-160 Tri-Pacer ... This Tri-Pacer has 4,500 hours on the airframe and 1,999 hours on its Lycoming O-320 engine since overhaul ... FLYING Magazine.
... powerful engine that allowed it to carry surprisingly heavy loads with ease ... This 1964 Piper PA-28-235 Pathfinder has 2,675 hours on the airframe and 1,508 hours on its 235 hp Lycoming O-540 engine.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily ... This Bell 47 has 4,885 hours on the airframe and 815 hours on its Lycoming TVO-435 engine ... The basic VFR panel includes a comm radio and traditional engine instruments.
The FAA issued an airworthiness directive (AD) Thursday targeting specific Lycoming engines that are equipped with certain connecting rod assemblies ... Some 16,000 Lycoming engine models manufactured ...
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily ... This 1978 TurboLance II has 3,750 hours on the airframe and 750 hours on its 300 hp Lycoming TIO-540-S1AD engine since overhaul ... FLYING Magazine. Air Compare. Piper Lance vs ... Part 1.
Engine manufacturer Lycoming offers written guidance on cold weather starts that includes the warning ... Aircraft makes preheat kits for Lycoming, Continental, Rotax, Jabiru, Jacobs, and Austro engines.
Powered by a 260 hp Lycoming IO-540, the 114 was intended to compete with Piper Comanches, Beechcraft Bonanzas, and the like ... This 1978 Commander 114 has 639 hours on the airframe, its 260 hp Lycoming IO-540 engine, and two-blade Hartzell propeller.
The earliest versions became well-known for reaching impressive cruising speeds with Lycoming O-320 engines similar to those later fitted to Cessna 172s.
... with both engines shut down ... This 1960Aero Commander 500 has 3,798 hours on the airframe, 987 hours since major overhaul on each of its Lycoming IO-540 engines, and 26 hours on its propellers.
Cessna answered the first wish at the factory by rolling out the R172K, also known as the Hawk XP, which came with a 195 hp Lycoming IO-360 engine ... This 1978 Hawk XP has 1,840 hours on the airframe and its Lycoming IO-360 engine.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily ... This 1963Piper Comanche has 2,018 hours on the airframe, 102 hours since overhaul on its Lycoming 0-540 engine, and 5.79 hours since overhaul on its propeller ... FLYING Magazine.
This 1973 Cessna T310Q has 4,400 hours on the airframe, 415 hours since overhaul on each of its 350 hp Lycoming TIO-540-N2BD engines, and 428 hours since overhaul on its Hartzell heated three-blade propellers.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily. Today’s Top Pick is a 2024 Cessna T206H ... The aircraft is equipped with a 310 hp Textron Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A engine and a heated three-blade McCauley propeller ... FLYING Magazine.
This 1978 Lance has 2,981 hours on the airframe, 170 hours since overhaul on its 300 hp Lycoming IO-540 engine, and 591 hours since new on its three-blade Hartzell propeller.
