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.

1986 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

External link

Teledyne Continental Motors (http://www.tcmlink.com/) TCM official site