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Teledyne Continental Motors
Type Operating Division
Founded 1905
Headquarters Mobile, Alabama
Industry General Aviation, Commercial Aviation, and Defense Industry
Products O-200, IO-240
Parent Teledyne Technologies, Inc.
Website tcmlink.com

Continental Motors (Teledyne Continental Motors) is an engine manufacturer located in Mobile, Alabama. The company is part of the Teledyne conglomerate. Although Continental is most well known for its light aviation engines, they were also contracted to produce the air-cooled V-12 AV-1790-5B gasoline engine for the U.S. Army's M47 Patton tank and the diesel AVDS-1790-2A and its derivatives for the M48 Patton and M60 series main battle tanks.

The company produced engines for various independent manufacturers of automobiles, tractors, and stationary equipment (i.e. pumps, generators, machinery drives) from the 1920s through the 1960s. Continental Motors also produced Continental branded automobiles in 1932/1933 based upon the 1931 De Vaux, a product of the De Vaux Motors Corporations of Oakland, California, which had been using body dies left over from the former Durant produced by Durant Motors until 1930. The company had two major production plants located in Michigan, in the cities of Muskegon and Detroit. The Detroit plant closed in 1965.

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[edit] Company history

Restored Continental AV-1790-5B tank engine at the American Armored Foundation Tank Museum in Danville, Virginia.

1905 Continental Motors is born with the introduction of a four-cylinder, four stroke cycle L-head engine operated by a single camshaft.

1906 Type "O" 45 hp (34 kW) engine is developed to power aircraft.

1929 A-70 radial, seven-cylinder engine is introduced. 170hp@2000rpm 4.625x4.625 = 543.91cuin (8.91L)

1930 A-40 four-cylinder engine is introduced. 37hp @ 2550 rpm 3.125x3.75 = 115.05 cuin (1.89L)

1938 A-50 is added to the lineup to power the Piper Cub and Taylorcraft. 50hp @ 1900rpm 3.875 x 3.625 = 171.0 cuin (2.80L)

1939 Continental builds aircraft engines for use in British and American tanks.

1945 Six-cylinder E-185 developed for Beechcraft Bonanza. 5x4 = 471.24 (7.72L)

1950s A-65 developed into the more powerful C-90 and eventually to the 100 hp (75 kW) O-200. The latter powered a very important airplane design milestone: the Cessna 150.

1950s-1970s Continental built a licensed version of the Turbomeca Marboré as the J-69.

1960s Turbocharging and fuel injection are brought to general aviation. A turbocharger allows the engine to power the aircraft to a higher altitude where the air is thinner. This can occasionally allow the aircraft to fly above a storm, which is a major safety benefit. Fuel injection allows the aircraft to perform aggressive maneuvers without suffering the fuel starvation that a carburetor may incur. The IO-520's applications expand to dominate the market.

1972 6-285 Tiara 285hp@4000 (4.875x4.625 = 406cuin) and 6-320 320hp high output engines dropped after 1978.

1984 TSIO-520-BE for the Piper Malibu. It sets new efficiency standards for light aircraft piston engines.

1986 Powered by a liquid cooled version of the IO-240, the Voyager is the first piston-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world without refueling.

1997 NASA selects Continental to develop and produce GAP, a new 200-hp piston engine that operates on Jet-A fuel. This is in response to 100-octane aviation gasoline becoming less available in the face of decreased demand, as a result of smaller turboprop engines becoming more prevalent due to their long service life.

1999 Continental develops and tests its first FADEC-equipped engine.

Source; excerpt and wikified from official site.

2008 Teledyne Continental's new president, Rhett Ross announced that the company is very concerned about future availability of 100LL avgas and as a result will develop a diesel engine in the 300 hp range for certification in 2009 or 2010.[1]

Continental Motors continues to build engines for aircraft as a division of Teledyne Technologies Company.

[edit] Continental aircraft engines

  • A-40 - four cylinder, 40 horsepower[2]
  • A-50 - four cylinder, 50 horsepower[2]
  • A-65 - four cylinder, 65 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • A-75 - four cylinder, 75 horsepower[2]
  • C-75 - four cylinder, 75 horsepower[2]
  • A-80 - four cylinder, 80 horsepower[2]
  • C-85 - four cylinder, 85 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • C-90 - four cylinder, 90 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • C-115 - six cylinder, 115 horsepower based on the same cylinders as the C-75.
  • C-125 - six cylinder, 125 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • C-140 - six cylinder, a geared version of the C-125.
  • C-145 - four cylinder, 145 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • E165 - six cylinder, 165 horsepower, 80 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • E185 - six cylinder, 185 horsepower, 80 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • O-200 - four cylinder, 100 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • E225 - six cylinder, 225 horsepower, 80 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls[3]
  • O-300 - six cylinder, 145 horsepower, 80 octane, 1800 hour design time between overhauls. Family includes the GO-300. The O-300 is a modernized version of the C-145[3]
  • IO-346 - four cylinder, 165 horsepower, 91 octane[2]
  • O-360 - six cylinder, 210 horsepower, 100 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls. Family includes the TSIO-360[3]
  • O-470 - six cylinder, 230 horsepower, 80 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls. Family includes the IO-470 and the TSIO-470[3]
  • O-520 - six cylinder, 320 horsepower, 100 octane, 1500 hour design time between overhauls. Family includes the TSIO-520 and the GTSIO-520[3]
  • IO-550 - six cylinder 280 hp (209 kW) to 360 hp (268 kW) 100 octane, engine, Family includes IOF-550 and TSIO-550.[4][5]

[edit] Automobiles using Continental engines

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ AvWeb Staff (February 2008). "Teledyne Continental Plans Certified Diesel Within Two Years". Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Christy, Joe: Engines for Homebuilt Aircraft & Ultralights, page 142. Tab Books Inc, 1983. ISBN 0-8306-2347-7
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Foster, Timothy R.V.: The Aviator's Catalog, page 142. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. ISBN 0-442-21201-6
  4. ^ Federal Aviation Administration (March 2007). "TYPE CERTIFICATE DATA SHEET NO. E3SO Revsion 10". Retrieved on 2008-12-28.
  5. ^ Federal Aviation Administration (December 2006). "TYPE CERTIFICATE DATA SHEET NO. E5SO Revision 3". Retrieved on 2008-12-28.
  • Foss, Christopher F.. Jane's Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles. Collier Books. pp. 45–49. 73-15286. 
  • Gunston, Bill (2006). World Encyclopedia of Aero Engines, 5th Edition. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire, England, UK: Sutton Publishing Limited. pp. 79. ISBN 0-7509-4479-X. 

[edit] External links

Teledyne Continental Motors TCM official site
"Flying With Forty Horses" by Chet Peek - Book covering the story of the Continental A-40, the engine which revived the struggling aviation industry during the Great Depression
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Teledyne CAE / Teledyne Continental Motors aircraft engines
Opposed piston engines

By company horsepower designation
A-40 · A-50 · A-65 · A-75 · A-80 · C-75 · C-85 · C-90 · C-115 · C-125 · C-140 · C-145 · E165 · E185 · E225
By displacement
O-170 · O-200 · O-240 · O-280 · O-300 · IO-346 · O-360 · O-470 · O-520 · IO-550
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I-1430 · R-670 · R-975
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