Most Produced Aero-Engine?

But how many of these engines are left, I saw in a previous thread that there was a severe shortage of Bristol Hercules engines with regard to the restoration of the Scottish based Beaufighter, but with all these constant Spitfire/Hurricane restorations are Merlins hard to come by or are they easily reconditioned, do BBMF hold massive spares stocks from internal sources that were never got rid of.
What about German engines, ie the DB for the 109, there can’t be many of these about.
I also notice that restored/new build Yak3/9’s seem to be powered with Alisons, so the massive number of soviet engines produced must have been made back into Zlins or, shudder, Trabants.

Total Merlin production amounted to about 155,000 engines, with Packard producing 55,000, or so. In the west the Merlin comes 2nd to the R 1830. Nothing else comes close. Remember that the B24 was the most produced US aircraft of WWII and it had 4 R1830s. Add in all the C47s with 2 and those 2 aircraft alone account for a huge number of engines.

Somewhere around 100,000 in this country I think. I have read how many Packard produced but can’t remember now. I don’t think it’s enough to beat the Twin Wasp.

I guess there’s at least another dozen Merlin-powered aircraft that haven’t been mentioned, starting with the Hurricane. 🙂

and the Balliol, Athena (I think), Beaufighter, Wellington, Halifax… That’s just a five-second guess so I’m sure there are more!

Adrian

Edit: Welkin, Defiant, did he mention Hurricane?, no doubt there are more (although it is a bit OT)

Surely the Merlin, powering the spitfire, the mustang, mossie and the lanc must be right up there? Are there any other aircraft that used merlins?

Weren’t there Russian licence-produced versions of the Wright Cyclone (as used on e.g. La-5/5FN/7/9)? If so I would imagine the Cyclone and its derivatives would be up there.

Considering that the Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 was the most produced military aircraft – at 36,000+ units – I would think that its engine, the 1,720hp Mikulin AM-38F in-line, must be a contender ???

Ken

PS – It powered other a/c as well !

What about the Lycoming O-320 series?

Bristol Jupiter maybe? Licence-built all over the world, I think.

How about the Pratt & Whitney PT-6, used on lots of small aircraft, and as a APU on lots of larger aircraft. First flew in 1964 and still in production.

Twin Wasp sounds a good contender.

However, some Russian aircraft, as opposed to engines, had fairly astronomical production figures. Was there a widely used engine across several aircraft?

Pratt & Whitney say the most produced was the R1830 Twin Wasp: 173,618 produced

R1830

Tony Andrews

I would imagine it would probably end up being a piston engine produced in the second world war period. According to White’s book on the P&W R2800 over 110700 military R2800’s were produced, plus all the civilain versions.

Gunstons book encyclopedia of aero engines states 168040 merlins produced

allison t-56 must be up there as well, fitted to hercs for 50 years, plus other aircraft types.
wikipedia says over 18,000 produced so far.

The Pratt & Whitney JT8D must be in the running.