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 Lycoming water tower in Williamsport, Pennsylvania | |
| Industry | Aerospace industry |
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| Founded | 1845 |
| Founder | Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest |
| Headquarters | Williamsport, Pennsylvania |
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| Website | http://www.lycoming.com |
Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines. With a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed, air-cooled, four, six and eight-cylinder engines 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.[1]
Lycoming has been a principal pioneer of turbine engines for medium and large helicopters, and has also produced engines for small jetliners and business jets.[2][3][4]
Lycoming is an operating division of Avco Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Textron.[5][4][6]
- ^ "History: Decades of Pioneering Spirit", official website of Lycoming Engines, retrieved August 9, 2023
- ^ Angelucci, Enzo: Airplanes: From the Dawn of Flight to the Present Day, 1982 ed., Greenwich House / Arlington House, U.K.; retrieved August 8, 2023.
- ^ Young, Warren R., et.al.: The Helicopters, 1982, from the "Epic of Flight" series, Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, USA (cross-referenced with Angelucci's book)
- ^ a b Lambert, Mark, ed.: "Textron Lycoming" in "USA: Engines", Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1994–1995, 1994, pp. 756 et. seq., Jane's, Sentinel House, Surrey, UK/ Alexandria, Virginia, US; ISBN 0-7106-1160-9
- ^ Wragg, David W. (1973). A Dictionary of Aviation (first ed.). Osprey. p. 45. ISBN 9780850451634.
- ^ Textron Legal Entity