Continental IO-360

The Continental IO - 360 is an aircraft engine of the U.S. manufacturer Teledyne Continental Motors, which was developed for use in light aircraft. The air-cooled six-cylinder boxer engine was introduced in 1962 and is in several naturally aspirated versions ( ID IO) as well as versions with turbocharger offered.

Technical Features

The Continental IO-360 was developed in the late 1950s by the Continental Motors Corporation and approved on May 15, 1962 in the U.S. by the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) for aviation. That same year, began shipping. The air-cooled six-cylinder boxer engine was equipped from the outset with a mechanical fuel injection, the (now Teledyne Continental) Continental engine itself is made ​​. The name was so from the beginning IO-360 ( ID I: Injection).

The engine has been made ​​to date in numerous variants. In order to improve the level of performance, also provided with mechanical injection turbocharged version was available from 1966 ( ID TSIO ). The compression ratios are 7.5:1 and 8.5:1 for the turbo version in the naturally aspirated. The type approval of the turbocharged engine was made on September 11, 1966 by the FAA. All models may be operated both with train as well with pusher propeller. The engine is currently (as of 2006) still in production and continues to be economically successful.

This engine is not offered in a carburetor version, also was never such a plan. A carburetor version would have been then referred to by the designation system as O -360, a term that is often used incorrectly. A four-cylinder variant called Continental O -240 was introduced in 1977. Known types that have been equipped with the IO-360, the Cessna 172, Piper PA -34 Seneca, the Cirrus SR20 and the Maule M- fourth

Specifications

The technical data of the type Continental IO - 360 ˚:

Use

  • Aero Boero AB -210
  • AVE Mizar
  • Beriev Be -103
  • Cessna 160
  • Cessna R172K Hawk XP
  • Cessna Skymaster (models 336 and 337 Skymaster Super Skymaster )
  • Cessna O -2 Skymaster (military version of the Cessna 337 Super Skymaster )
  • Cessna T -41 Mescalero (military version of the Cessna 172)
  • Cirrus SR20
  • Cierva CR Twin
  • Goodyear GZ -20
  • Maule M-4
  • Maule M-5
  • Mooney M20
  • PAC CT / 4
  • Piper PA- 28R - 201T Turbo Arrow
  • Piper PA -28- 201T Turbo Dakota
  • Piper PA -34 Seneca
  • PZL M-20 Mewa ( under license of the Piper PA -34 Seneca II)
  • Reims Reims Rocket FR172J ( variant of the Cessna 172 from France by Reims Cessna )
  • Ryan XV -8
  • Sasin Spraymaster
V6 engine Naturally aspirated engine Continental Motors, Inc. AvGas Aero Boero AB-210 List of aircraft engines
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