richard.goode(at)russiana
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: Engines |
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Availability and higher power!
I cannot speak for Chinese engines, since we have so few CJ6 in Europe - I think five as opposed to abut one hundred and fifty Yak-52!
Being in the engine business, it might seem I have a motive to talk up engine prices, but rising prices give us huge problems since we have no idea how much the next batch of overhauls will cost, and I would so much prefer a stable market! However the main points are:
- The last production engine was made in 1994.
- A few engines have been made from new but old stock parts since then.
- We have made many "new" PF 400hp, from unused M14Ps. However we cannot find any more of these engines - the last one that we bought was eighteen months ago.
- There are about 600 Yaks and Sukhois in the West, and all, at one time or another needing new engines.
- Also about 250 Pitts 12; Murphy Moose; etc being made. All of these need engines.
- The order for sixty new 18T aircraft from the Russian Ministry of Transport (at US $600,000 each!) is good news, because, as part of it, is a hundred new engines.
- Of course this a governmental deal, and so not strictly commercial, but ex-factory price of these M14Ps (which are coming out now) is US $65,000 each.
- As a spin off, there is a significant manufacture of engine spares.
- For the high powered engines, there is clearly a huge amount of money in Russia - but not much directed towards light aviation. Both the M14R and the M9F are being sold, but in small numbers - our problem is to get them, since we seem to be able to sell all we can get. They are being used in other aircraft apart from competition aircraft - we are putting a M9F into a Yak-18T, and, about to put a M14R into a Yak-50 - I think that this will do well over 5,000 feet per minute.
- Statistically we have found 400hp's a little more reliable than 360's -I think that is purely statistics, albeit over a large number of engines. To an extent the 400s have typically been newer, and other similar reasons.
Richard Goode Aerobatics
Rhodds Farm
Lyonshall
Herefordshire
HR5 3LW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1544 340120
Fax: +44 (0) 1544 340129
www.russianaeros.com
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