Continental Motors

Continental Motors is a corporation in Mobile, AL, USA, that produces aircraft engines. 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. 1930 A-40 four-cylinder engine is introduced. 1938 A-50 is added to the lineup to power the Piper Cub and Taylorcraft. 1939 Continental builds aircraft engines for use in British and American tanks. 1945 Six-cylinder E-185 developed for Beechcraft Bonanza. 1950s A-65 developed into the more powerful C-90 and eventually to the 100 hp (75 kW) O-200. The latter powered one of the most important airplanes ever: the Cessna 150. 1960s Turbocharging and fuel injection are brought to general aviation. IO-520's applications expand to dominate the market. 1984 TSIO-520-BE for the Piper Malibu. It sets new efficiency targets for piston engines. \n \n1986 Powered by a liquid cooled version of the IO-240, the Rutan 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 engine that operates on Jet-A fuel. 1999 Continental develops and tests its first FADEC-equipped engine. Source; excerpt and wikified from official site

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