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.
Warbird pilots Mike Oliver and Doug Griffin start the engines after first pre-oiling and priming each engine, setting the mixtures to idle-cutoff and the magnetos off ... With the first engine firing regularly, the mixture is placed to auto-rich.
Vikings used both Continental and Lycoming big-bore engines and developed a loyal following over the years ... hours since factory remanufacture overhaul on its turbo-normalized Lycoming IO-540 engine.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily ... This 1968Cherokee 140 has 5,611 hours on the airframe with 1,813 hours on its 160 hp Lycoming O-320-E2A engine and Sensenich propeller ... FLYING Magazine ... FLYING Magazine.
... stressed for serious aerobatics and able to use larger, more powerful engines ... This 1992 Starduster Too has 489 hours on the airframe and on its Lycoming O-360-A4M engine and Sensenich propeller.
This 2010Van’s RV-8 has 380 hours on the airframe and 380 hours since overhaul on its 210 hp Lycoming AEIO-360-A1B6 engine, which is equipped with electronic ignition ... Dynon EMSD120 engine monitor.
This 1965 Piper PA-28-180 has 4,870 hours on the airframe and 1,965 hours since overhaul on its 180 hp Lycoming O-360-A3A engine and propeller ...Tanis engine preheater, and other accessories.
You can read Aircraft For Sale. Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily ... This Cessna 206 has 1,336 hours on the airframe and its Lycoming TIO-540-AJ1A engine, and 535 hours since overhaul on its Hartzell propeller ... FLYING Magazine ... FLYING Magazine ... AVweb.
This 1977Mooney M20J has 6,493 hours on the airframe, 91 hours since overhaul on its 200 hp Lycoming IO-360-A3B6 engine, and 91 hours since new on its Hartzell two-blade propeller ... engine monitor.
This 1977GrummanAmericanAA-1C Lynx has 2,935 hours on the airframe and 1,292 hours since overhaul on its 125 hp Lycoming O-235 engine. The engine has logged 781 hours since undergoing a top overhaul.
... landing gear or as a taildragger, and readily converted between those formats, is also a lot faster than the Cessna, flirting with 150 ktas while using the same Lycoming O-320 engine as the 172.
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.
