As the historic aircraf we so much love used engine technology of the 1930 and 1940’s it is a fact that these engines are rare. The number of restorations is still increasing so that the demand for new core engines is still high and could be a problem in the forseeable future. It has been discussed before that perhaps the Merlin, Allison V1710, DB-series etc. should be put back into limited production. But there seem to be a lot of engines to be on static display in musea all around the world.

For instance, the Daimler Benz engines are quite scarce but it seems like every museum in the world at least has one or more on show. Same goes for the Merlin. In the early eighties the RR Kestrel was considered to be a rare engine but yet the number of airworthy Hawker biplanes is increasing and the number of engines that have turned up seem to be increasing as well.

Is there a shortage of engines or is this just a matter of supply and demand………….
Don’t know if this has been discussed before but it’s an interesting subject anyway.

Cheers

Cees

In some cases I fear the mercenary profit margin rears its ugly head. If you can convince potential buyers that the supply is drying up you can persuade said buyer to pay a higher price.