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 [...]

Superior Air Parts, Inc., announced on May 23 that it has started shipping its Experimental XP Series engines to authorized dealers. The resumption of engine shipments may not seem like news, but it is a very big step for our efforts to get our business back to where it was four years ago, said Tim [...]

Belite Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas, announced the development of a 6 gram digital chip and probe combination sensor designed to detect liquid water in an aircraft fuel system. Jim Wiebe, president and CEO of Belite Aircraft, introduced the product at Sun n Fun 2011. The circuit chip, with a tiny probe attached, is poised to [...]

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. [...]

Engine builders looking for cost-effective components for newly constructed engines or overhauls have some additional options thanks to Engine Components, Inc. The San Antonio, Texas-based company has introduced a new idler gear assembly for the O-540 series engines, further expanding its catalog of items for the six-cylinder engines. This new gear, which carries an FAA-PMA [...]

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 [...]

DeltaHawk will be the first to admit they’ve been plodding along on the diesel engine certification project like…forever. Actually, it’s been 14 years. But they think they’ll have a production engine available this year. Here’s KITPLANES editor Marc Cook with an update.

Aircraft engine development isn’t exactly a major growth industry, but we do see new products from time to time. At Sun ‘n Fun, KITPLANES editor Marc Cook talked to Gus Warren about the unique, lightweight UL Power engine for LSAs and kit airplanes.