EXTRA LIFE FOR CENTURION ENGINES
08 Apr 2010
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Centurion showed its 4.0 litre V8 engine at AERO 2010.
GOOD NEWS announced at AERO 2010 for CENTURION aero turbodiesel engines - the company has delivered the first clutches designed for extended operation of up to 600 hours to its customers, while the life span of the fuel feed pump has been doubled.
Extension of the hours of operation for transmissions and engines will follow in the second quarter, said the company. And with immediate effect the 155hp CENTURION 2.0 S is now available as a retrofit kit for Cessna 172 models.
Starting in April CENTURION will deliver its new clutches designed for 600 hours of operation to its customers. The new clutches will now be built into all new engines and supplied as replacements with every 600-hour maintenance check.
"We anticipate approval for the 600 hours of operation by September," says CENTURION chairman of the board Jasper M. Wolffson.
Extension of the hours of operation time for transmissions and the CENTURION 2.0 engine is also on the verge of completion. Transmissions designed to operate for at least 600 hours will be available in new engines and as replacements with every 600-hour maintenance check in the second quarter of 2010, while CENTURION 2.0 engines will have a life span of 1,500 hours.
A further improvement involves the hours of operation for the fuel feed pump – its life span has now been doubled to a total of 1,200 hours. In the next step it will be adapted to the extended engine life span of 1,500 hours, so that in the future this part will no longer have to be replaced during the entire life of an engine.
With approvals in Brazil, Eastern Europe and Asia, CENTURION says it has been able to develop a number of important new markets over the past year. Altogether the CENTURION 2.0 is now certified in a total of 60 countries worldwide, and there are over 33 dealers and 300 service centres. In 2009 more than 360 engines could be sold, including an order for Shandong Bin Ao Aircraft Industries, the Chinese joint venture partner of Diamond.
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