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This is an alphabetical list of aircraft engines by manufacturer.
Source: Lumsden.[3]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV, Able Experimental Aircraft Engine Co.[6] (Able Experimental Aircraft Engine Co., Altimizer, Hoverhawk (US))
(Ace American Engr Corp, Horace Keane Aeroplane Co, North Beach, Long Island NY.)
(American Cirrus Engine Inc) Source: RMV[1][7]
(Aircraft Cylinder and Turbine Co) Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
The Adams Company, Dubuque, Iowa / F.O. Farwell, engines for gyrocopters[1]
ADC (from "Aircraft Disposal Company")[3] bought 35,000 war-surplus engines in 1920. Initially produced engines from Renault 70 hp spares.
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Aircraft Engine & Accessory Development Corporation) Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1] (See SPEER)
(formerly William Douglas (Bristol) Ltd.)
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Aero Products Aeronautical Products Corp, Naugatuck CT.) Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Aerojet produced rocket engines for missiles. It merged with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
See: AMI
(Detroit Aeromotor. Const. Co) Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Aeroplane Motors) Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(See Rev-Air)[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Agilis Engines) Sources: RMV[1][12][13]
Source: RMV[1]
(Aviation Ind. China. See Catic and Carec)[1]
Source:Gunston 1989[14] except where noted.
(AICTA Design Work, Prague, Czech Republic)
Source: RMV[1] (Jacobs License)
(Jacobs-Page License)
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Detroit Aircraft Eng. Corp.) Source: RMV[1]
See: Franklin
(Aircraft Engine Co Inc, Oakland, CA)
(See Schubert)
See: Garrett, Allied Signal and Honeywell
(AirTrike GmbH i.L., Berlin, Germany)
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(Albatross Co Detroit)
Societa per Azioni Alfa Romeo[17]
(Aubrey W. Hess/Alliance Aircraft Corporation)
Source: Gunston[14]
See: ACE
Source: RMV[1]
(AMCEL Propulsion Company)
(AeroMotion Inc.)
(Aviation Microjet Technology)
(Établissement A.M.U.A.L)
For British Anzani products see: British Anzani
Air-cooled Anzani engines
Water-cooled Anzani engines
(Avions Roger Druine Engines M)
(Ares ltd., Finland)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
Armstrong Siddeley was formed by purchase of Siddeley-Deasy in 1919.
Piston Engines[3]
Gas turbines
Rocket engines[14]
Source:Gunston[14]
(Ashmusen Manufacturing Company)
(F.M. Aspin & Company)
(Astrodyne Inc.)
( Atelier Technique Aéronautique de Rickenbach - pre SNECMA take-over)
(Atwood Aeronautic Company, Williamsport, PA / Harry N. Atwood)
Data from:Italian Civil & Military Aircraft 1930-1945[17]
Source:Gunston[14]
(L'Agence General des Moteurs Ava)
See:Lycoming
Avia Wytwórnia Maszyn Precyzjnych | Avia Akciova Spolecnost pro Prumysel Letecky | Avia Narodny Podnik |
Argus engines sold in France under the brand name 'Aviatik' by Automobil und Aviatik AG [47]
(Claudio Baradat Guillé & Carlos Esteve)
Data from:[18]
(Bayerische Motoren Gesellschaft)
Source: Lumsden[3]
Construction Mécanique du Béarn/Société de Construction et d'Exploitation de Matériels et de Moteurs
(B.L. Beecher Company, New Haven, Connecticut)
Source:Gunston[14]
See: Doble-Besler
(Moteurs Beaussier)
(A. A. Bessonov)
Includes engines of Cirrus Engine Division of Blackburn Source: Lumsden[3]
(E.W. Bliss Company)
Source: Gunston[14] except where noted
Source:Pelletier[57] except where noted
(Aero Bonner Ltd.)
(Jozef Borzecki)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(Breuer Werke G.m.b.H.)
(Captain R.W.A. Brewer)
Division of Bristol Aeroplane Company formed when Cosmos Engineering was taken over in 1920. Became Bristol Aero Engines in 1956. Merged with Armstrong Siddeley in 1958 to form Bristol Siddeley. Sources: Piston engines, Lumsden,[3] gas turbine and rocket engines, Gunston.[14]
Bristol Siddeley was formed by Bristol taking over Armstrong Siddeley , rebranding several of the engines. It took over de Havilland engines and, in turn, became a division of Rolls-Royce Limited.
For French Anzani engines see: Anzani
(Brooke, Chicago)
(A. Brott, Denver, Colorado)
(Brownback Motor Laboratories Inc.)
(David Budworth Limited)
(W. Starling Burgess, Rollin H. White / Burgess Company of Marblehead, MA and White Company of Cleveland, OH)
(Société des Moteurs Rotatifs Burlat)
(Peter Burt)
See:Teledyne CAE
(Anciens Etablissements Caffort Frères)
( Cal-aero Institute, California)
(Henry L. Call)
(Canadian Airmotive Inc.)
(Cameron Aero Engine Division / Everett S. Cameron)
Source:Gunston[14]
(Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino - Costruzioni Aeronautiche Novaresi S.A.)
Source:Ord-Hume.[67]
(China National Aero-Engine Corporation)
(Ramon Casanova)
Data from:[18]
(Societe Anonyme Omnium Metallurgique et Industriel / Etablissements Chaise et Cie)[68]
(M. Fernand Chamoy)
(Changzhou Lan Xiang Machinery Works)
Source:Gunston[14]
(The Arthur Chevrolet Aviation Motors Corporation)
(Christoffersen Aircraft Company)
(Jim Church)
Data from:[18]
(Société Clerget-Blin et Cie / Pierre Clerget)
Source:Lumsden[3] except where noted
(Walter C. Willard / Cleveland Aero Engines)
(Cleveland Engineering Laboratories Company)
(Compagnie Lilloise de Moteurs S.A)
(Construction Mécanique du Béarn) See: Béarn
Source:Brew[78]
(Comet Engine Corp, Madison WI.)
See:C.L.M.
(Deutsche Motorenbau G.m.b.H. / Robert Conrad)
(Cors-Air srl, Barco di Bibbiano, Italy)
(conversions and derivatives of the Chevrolet Turbo-Air 6 engine)
(Société de construction et de Reparationde Materiel Aéronautique)
See:2si
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(Ceskomorarsk-Kolben-Danek & Co.)
(Daniel Engine Company)
Data from:[18]
(Charles Day)
(Dayton Airplane Engine Co.)
Sources: Piston engines, Lumsden,[3] gas turbine and rocket engines, Gunston.[14]
(Arthur Deicke)
(Messrs Demont, Puteaux, France)
Data from:[18] (D.J.Deschampsdesigner - Lambert Engine & machine Co.,Illinois manufacturer)
(DeLand, Florida, United States)
(A.G.-Werk DKW, Zschopau S.a.)
Source:Gunston[14]
(W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd)
Mostly developed from Douglas motorcycle engines
(Dreher Engineering Company)
Data from:[18] (some sources erroneously as Duthiel-Chambers)
Data from:[18]
(Ecofly GmbH, Böhl-Iggelheim, Germany)
(Elbridge Engine Company)
Source:Gunston[14]
(EMG Engineering Company / Eugene M. Gluhareff)
(Engineered Propulsion Systems)
(Empresea Nacional de motores de Aviacion S.A.)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
None of Fairey Aviation Company's own engine designs made it to production.
(Ryan Falconer Racing Engines)
(S.A. Stabilimenti Farina)
Source:Liron[93][94]Note: Farman engine designations differ from other French manufacturers in using the attributes as the basis of the designation, thus; Farman 7E ( 7-cyl radial E - Etoile / Star / Radial) or Farman 12We ( W-12 fifth type - the e is not a variant or sub-variant it is the type designator). As usual there are exceptions such as the 12Gvi, 12B, 12C and 18T.
Source:[31]
Designed post war by Roy Fedden formerly of Cosmos Engineering and Bristol. Roy Fedden Ltd went into liquidation in 1947
Data from:Italian Civil & Military Aircraft 1930-1945[17]
Source:Geen and Cross[97]
(Dean Manufacturing Company, Newport, Kentucky)
Source:Gunston.[14]
(World's Motor Company, Bloomington, Illinois)
(Frontier Iron Works, Buffalo, New York)
(Akron Aircraft Company / Funk Aircraft Company)
(Galloway Engineering Company ltd.)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
Now under Honeywell management/design/production
(General Ordnance Company, Derby, Conn.)
Source:Gunston.[14]
Gnome et Rhône[14][18] except where noted Im French engine designations --even-- sub-series numbers (for example Gnome-Rhône 14N-68) rotated anti-clockwise (LH rotation) and were generally fitted on the starboard side, --odd numbers-- (for example Gnome-Rhône 14N-69) rotated clockwise (RH rotation) and were fitted on the port side.
(Gustave Gobrón and Eugène Brillié)
(Georg Goebel of Darmstadt) / (ver Gandenbergesche Maschinen Fabrik)
(Pierre Joseph Grégoire / Automobiles Grégoire)
(S.V. Grizodubov)
(Guiberson Diesel Engine Company) Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(Guizhou Liming Aircraft Engine Company)
Data from:[106]
(Haacke Flugmotoren)Source: RMV[1]
See:Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(Hallett Aero Motors Corp, Inglewood CA.)
(Hansa-LLoyd Werke AG)
(W.G. Hansen & L.L. Snow, Pasadena, CA)
(Donald (Don) Harkness, built by Harkness & Hillier Ltd)
(Harriman Motors Company, South Glastonbury, Conn.)
(Les Établissements lipton)
(Heath Aircraft Corp)
(Heath Aerial Vehicle Company, Chicago Illinois)
Source:[14]
From Flight[31]
(Aubrey W. Hess / Alliance Aircraft Corporation)
(Otto Hieronimus - designer - several manufacturers)
Hirth Motoren GmbH was merged with Heinkel to make "Heinkel-Hirth" in 1941.
Source:Gunston.[14]
(Al Hofer)
(Holbrook Aero Supply)
(John W Hudson)
( James Morris (Morry) Hummel of Bryan, Ohio)
(HuoSai - Piston engine)
(Ital-American Motor Engineering)
(Instytut Lotnictwa - Aviation Institute)
(Imperial Airplane Society)
(In-Tech International Inc.)
See: Hendee
(Innodyn L.L.C.)
Data from:[18]
(Gabriel Ion)
(Irwin Aircraft Co)
(Isaacson Engine (Motor Supply Co.) / R.J. Isaacson)
See: IHI
Source:Gunston[14]
Source:Gunston.[14]
See:Pirna
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(Jameson Aero Engines Ltd.)
(Jaroslaw Janowski)
Data from:[18]
(James Engineering Turbines Ltd)
(Boos, Seine-Maritime, France)
Source:Kay[127]
(Fyodor Grigoryevich Kalep)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(a.k.a. Grey Eagle )
LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation was sold to Rearwin Airplanes in 1937 and renamed Ken-Royce.
(KFM (Komet Flight Motor) Aircraft Motors Division of Italian American Motor Engineering)
(Chas. B. King)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
Source:Gunston[14]
(Knox Motors Company, Springfield Mass.)
(Kosokudo Kikan KK)
(Dr. Kröber und Sohn GmbH, Treuenbrietzen)
(Compact Radial Engines)
(Oberbayische Forschungsanhalt Dr. Konrad)
(O.S. Kostovich)
(Dipl. Ing. Willi Krautter)
(Doktor Kroeber & Sohn G.m.b.H.)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
(Monocoupe Corporation - Lambert Engine Division)
(Lancia & Company. / Vincenzo Lancia)
LeBlond was sold to Rearwin and engines continued under Ken-Royce name.
(F. Lefèrve)
Léon Levavasseur see Antoinette
J. G. Parry-Thomas, the chief engineer at Leyland Motors.
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
See:C.L.M.
(Konsortiert Överingeniör Sven Lindequist's Uppfinninggar - Consortium Senior Engineer Sven Lindqvist Inventions)
(Letecke Opravny Malesice, Praha)
(Yutz, France)
(Société Lorraine des Anciens Établissements de Dietrich) Source:Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938[43][133][134] except where noted
(Vladimir Lotarev) (see also Ivchenko-Progress)
(LSA-Engines GmbH, Berlin, Germany)
(Marcel Echard / Moteurs Lutetia)
Source:Gunston.[14]
Macomber Rotary Engine Company with Avis Engine Company
Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN)
See: Weiss
Charles M. Manly redesigned an engine built by Stephen Balzer.
(Marchetti Motor Patents)
(Stahlwerk Mark Flugzeugbau)
(Macerata, Italy)
(Mawen S.A.)
(Max Ams machine Company)
{Mayo Radiator Co)
(Geo. McDowell. Brooklyn NY.)
(Mead Engine Co.)
Sources:Gunston and Jane's.[14][152]
(Établissements Pierre Mengin)
See: Daimler-Benz
(Ivan A. Merkulov)
Data from:[18]
(Meteor S.p.A. Constuzioni Aeronautiche)
(Metz Company, Waltham, Mass.)
( Mid-West Engines Limited / Diamond engines / Austro Engine)
Data from:[18]
(A.A. Mikulin & B.S. Stechkin)
(Harry A. Miller Manufacturing Company)
Data from:[157] (Établissements Minié, Colombes, Seine, France)
(Rubiera, Italy)
(Monaco Motor and Engineering Co. Ltd.)
Data from:'[158]
Data from:[18]
(Mosler, Inc. of Hendersonville, North Carolina)
(Moteurs Mudry-Buchoux)
(MWfly srl, Passirana di Rho, Italy)
Sources: Piston engines, Lumsden,[3] gas turbine and rocket engines, Gunston.[14]
(Wiktor N. Narkiewicz - production at C.Z.P.S.K. (National)}
(Stanislaw Naskiewicz)
(New Engine Co.)
(Nippon Jet Engine Company)
Source:Gunston.[14]
(Kenneth Norton / Norton-Newby Motorcycle Co.)
(Niedergoersdorf, Germany)
Orenda Engines, formed by Avro Canada taking over publicly funded jet engine development by Turbo Research.[14] Later became Orenda Aerospace under Magellan.
(Orlo Motor Company)
(O?rodek Konstrukcji Lotniczych WSK Ok?cie)
(Palmer Motor Company)
Source:[167] (Société Panhard & Levassor)
(Aero Parker Motor Sales Company)
(Luha?ovice, Zlín Region, Moravia, Czech Republic)
(Roland Parodi)
(První Brnenská Strojírna Velká Bíte?, a.s.)
(Phillips Aviation Company)
Data from:Italian Civil & Military Aircraft 1930-1945[17] and Jane's 1938[43]
(Samuel S Pierce Airplane Company)
(Pieper Motorenbau GmbH)
Data from:[18]
(Poyer Aircraft Engine Company)
Source:Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1938[43]
(Otto Pulch)
(Pa?stwowe Zak?ady In?ynieryjne - National Engineering Works)
(PZL Pa?stwowe Zak?ady Lotnicze)
(Quick Air Motors, Wichita KS.)
Ranger Engines were a division of Fairchild Aircraft
Rapp Motorenwerke became BMW in 1917
(Hans L Rasmussen)
(Rectimo Aviation SA) / (Rectimo-Savoie Aviation)
RED Aircraft GmbH
(Société anonyme des avions et moteurs Renard / Alfred Renard, Belgium)[178]
Note: some of the early Renaults seem to have oversquare cylinders and may be listed with bore and stroke transposed below.
(Flugmachine Rex GesellschaftG.m.b.H.)
(Rhenania Motorenwerke)
(Rex-Simplex Automobilwerke)
(Archibald and Mervyn, Sydney Australia)
(Roberts Motor Company / E.W. Roberts, Sandusky. Ohio)
(Grinnell Aeroplane Co. / William C. Robinson)
(Jean A Roché)
Sources: Piston engines, Lumsden,[3] gas turbine and rocket engines, Gunston.[14][58]
Note: For alternative 'RB' gas turbine designations please see the Rolls-Royce aero engine template.
Note: For alternative 'RB' gas turbine designations please see the Rolls-Royce aero engine template.
(Frédéric Rossel et les frères Peugeot)
(Rover Company / Rover Gas Turbines Ltd.)
(Rolls-Royce and Japanese Aero-engines Ltd.)
( Ryan Aeronautical Corp/Siemens-Halske)
(Guy Negre)[188]
Salmsons 18 cylinder in-line radial engines
(Schlüpmannsche Industrie und Handelsgesellschaft)
(Otto Schwade GmbH, Erfurt, Germany)
(Security Aircraaft Corporation)
(Société d'Etude pour la Locomotion Aérienne [SELA])
(Seld-Kompressorbau G.m.b.H.)
(Société Française de Fabrication Aéronautique, France)
Data from:Russian Piston Aero Engines[71]
(Harry Eales Smallbone)
(General Machinery Co)
(South Motive Power and Machinery Complex SMPMC prev Zhuzhou Aeroengine Factory)
Société nationale d'études et de construction de moteurs d'aviation formed by nationalisation of Gnome et Rhône in 1945. On French engine designations even sub-series numbers (for example Gnome-Rhône 14N-68) rotated anti-clockwise (LH rotation) and were generally fitted on the starboard side, odd numbers (for example Gnome-Rhône 14N-69) rotated clockwise (RH rotation) and were fitted on the port side.
(Société Nationale de Constructions de Moteurs - Lorraine post 1936)
(Société de Construction et d'Équipments Méchaniques pour l'Aviation)
(Solo Kleinmotoren GmbH)
Source:Gunston.[14]
(Soloy Conversions / Soloy Dual Pak Inc.)
(Soverini Freres et Cie)
(AMNTK Soyuz)
(Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Co)
(Sport Plane Power Inc.)
(Star Engineering Co. ltd.)
(Stark Flugzeugbau KG)
(Statax Engine Company Ltd. - prev. Statax-Motor of Zurich)
(Straughn Aircraft Corp)
(Turbinenbau Schuberth Schwabhausen GmbH)
See: Mosler
(Technopower Inc.)
(Thermo-Jet Standard Inc.)
(Thames Ironworks and Ship[building Co.Ltd.)
Data from:Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1962-3[10]
(Thomas Aeromotor Company, United States)
(Thorotzkai Péter alt, spelling Thoroczkay)[206]
(Thunder Engines Inc.)
(The Light Manufacturing and Foundry Company)
(Tomon Naoji)
(Valley Engineering)
(Établissements E. Train / Société des Constructions Guinard)
Source:Gunston[14] except where noted
Turbo Research was taken over by Avro Canada
Turbo-Union was a joint venture between Rolls-Royce Ltd, MTU and Aeritalia to produce engine for Panavia Tornado
Twombly Motor Company (Willard Irving Twombly)
(A.G. Ufimtsev)
(Union Gas Engine Company, United States)
(Ursinus Leichtmotorenbau)
(United Technology Corporation)
(Valley Engineering)
(Van Blerck Motor Co., Monroe, Michigan)
(Henri Vaslin)
(Vauxhall Motors Ltd.)
See: Pirna
Source: RMV,[1]Verner Motor range of engines,[215]
(Viking Aircraft Engines)
(Detroit Manufacturers Syndicate Inc)
(Villiers-Hay Development Ltd.)
(Morrovalle, Italy)
Data from:[18]
(Voronezh engine factory)
Source: RMV[1]
(Cesky znalecky institut sro, Prague, Czech Republic)
(Westphalisch-Anhaltische Springstoff A.G.)Source: RMV[1]
(Gary Watson of Newcastle, Texas)
(Weiss Manfréd Repülögép- és Motorgyár Rt - Mannfred Weiss Aircraft company - engine works)
(Welch Aircraft Co)
(Oskar Westermayer)
(Western Enterprise Engine Co)
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
Source: RMV[1]
(C. Howard Wills)
(The Swiss Locomotive and machine Works)
(S.Wojcicli)
Source: Lumsden.[3]
(Wright-Martin/Wright-Hisso)
(William Wynne) (The Corvair Authority)
(Jo York)
(Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka A.S. Brno / Zbrojovka Brno)
(Joseph Zeitlin)
(Zhuzhou Aeroengine Factory -ZEF now South Motive Power and Machinery Complex (SMPMC))
Source:[223]
(?eskoslovenská zbrojovka Brno - ZOD)