While the industry awaits an unleaded replacement for 100LL, Continental has moved rapidly forward to certify a new version of its six-cylinder IO-360 that will run on lower octane fuel. At AOPA’s Summit in Hartford, Connecticut, the company’s CEO Rhett Ross told us the new engine will be used in the four-place C4 announced by [...]

Cylinder assemblies for the Lycoming 360/540 series and Continental 520 series are now being shipped by Superior Air Parts. This marks the “next phase of product reintroduction,” according to the company. “This is very exciting for everyone who has been involved with bringing the popular family of Millennium Cylinders back into production,” says Timothy T. [...]

AvWeb’s Paul Bertorelli continues coverage from Teledyne Continental Motors’ press function today: While the industry wrings its hands deciding what to do about the demise of 100LL, one of Teledyne Continental’s strategies is reduce the compression ratio of some of its engines, including the O-200-D. The O-200-D is a lightweight version of the venerable O-200 [...]

AvWeb’s Paul Bertorelli is in Mobile, Alabama, at the Teledyne Continental Motors headquarters for an alternative fuels summit. Here is the first of his reports: Teledyne Continental says it’s bullish on piston-engines that burn Jet A and today in the company’s Mobile skunk works, it took the wraps off the project for a group of [...]