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Lycoming Engines is a major aircraft engine company, known primarily for their smaller general aviation engines. For most of its history Lycoming has been part of the AVCO group as AVCO Lycoming. In 1987 AVCO was purchased by Textron to become Textron Lycoming. In 2002 the company was renamed Lycoming Engines. [1]

History

Lycoming first set up business in 1916 in Williamsport, Pa (in Lycoming County) as a sewing machine manufacturer, and soon branched out into bicycle manufacturing as well. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Through the early post-WWI era they increasingly focused on automobile engines, and at one time became a major supplier for Auburn, which produced the Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg lines. Eventually they became their major supplier, and in 1929 Cord bought the company, placing it under his Auburn Manufacturing umbrella group. Also in 1929 Lycoming produced their first aviation engine, the radial R-680. This was a fairly successful design, and was used widely in light aircraft, including Cord's Travel Air.

Through the 1930s Lycoming made a number of efforts to break into the "big league" with high-power engine designs. The 1200 hp O-1230 was their attempt to produce a hyper engine, an aviation engine that could produce one horsepower per cubic inch (46 kW/L) of engine displacement. Complete inventory of hard-to-find HP Printer Power Cords.