Continental Motors Group has manufactured and delivered 5,000 CD-100 series engine over 15 years. Those 5,000 engines have accumulated more than 5.25 million flight hours on more than 2,750 aircraft, company officials report.
The first CD-100-series engine took flight in September 2000 mounted on a Valentin Taifun motor glider at Altenburg airport in Thuringia, Germany. Additional installations include the Cessna 172, Diamond DA-40 and DA-42 or Robin DR400.
“In the last nine months, the cumulative flight time logged by end-users has risen by half a million hours to 5.25 million hours,” said Jürgen Schwarz, Vice President Engineering, Continental Motors Group. “As a result of continuous product development and improvement, we have also increased product dependability significantly with only 1.1 unscheduled maintenance events per 1,000 hours.”
Since the start of production, more than 5,000 new engines of the Centurion 1.7, CD-135 (both with 99 kW power), and CD-155 (with 114 kW power) have been manufactured and delivered. A fleet of well over 2,750 aircraft has been equipped with them.
What about TBO and gearbox inspection/replacement?
99 KW = about 132 hp, 114 KW = about 153 hp.
Conversion tables from Google.
Remember that gasoline and diesel engines have different torque curves and peaks, so the comparison of only hp is skewed. Also diesel (kerosine) has a slightly higher energy content than gasoline, so there’s another factor preventing a direct comparison.
Personally, I’ll wait for an all electric airplane (only thing stopping this right now is lack of light, powerful batteries). No more exhaust, 99% less noise, no vibration, no carb ice, 10,000 hour TBO (just change two bearings), no stinky, highly flammable fuels, no oil leaks or oil changes, no decrease in performance due to altitude (propeller and wings will still have density altitude problems), no mixture control, real single lever power control, no cowl flaps, spark plugs, magnetos, fuel valves, leaky or sunk carb floats, and on and on and on.
Plug me in Scotty, I’ve got some flying to do!
PLEASE…when putting horsepower and torque ratings in an article, please put the HP numbers in Horsepower as well as Kw ratings. Oh I know there is a way to calculate HP from Kw, but it would make it more enjoyable if both are included. As it stands now, from the above article, I can’t compare the Continental to the makers of other comparable engines. T’hanks!