List of aircraft engine manufacturers
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This is a list of aircraft engine manufacturers both past and present. The most prominent are listed in bold text.

A

  • ABC Motors
    ABC Motors
    ABC Motors Limited of Hersham, Surrey, England was a manufacturer of cars, aircraft, motor scooters, and engines for road and air. Established by Ronald Charteris in Hersham, Surrey in 1912, its chief designer was the young and talented Granville Bradshaw...

     — UK
  • ADC/Airdisco
    ADC Aircraft
    The Aircraft Disposals Company or Airdisco, was a British firm established in March 1920 to take advantage of the large number of World War I-surplus military aircraft on the market.-History:...

     — UK
  • Advance Motor Manufacturing Company
    Advance Motor Manufacturing Company
    The Advance Motor Manufacturing Company was a British motorcycle and engine manufacturer established in 1905. As well as supplying aircraft engines to the pioneering monoplane developers, Advance engines were also used by Captain Robert Scott to power Antarctic snow sleds...

     - UK
  • Aerojet
    Aerojet
    Aerojet is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, Gainesville and Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet is owned by GenCorp. They are the only US propulsion company that provides both solid rocket...

     — U.S.
  • Aeromarine
    Aeromarine
    The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company was an early American aircraft manufacturer founded by Inglis M. Upperçu which operated from 1914 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 it was known as the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation.-History:...

     — U.S.
  • Aeronca — U.S.
  • Aerosport - U.S.
  • Aerostar
    Aerostar
    Aerostar S.A., is an aeronautical manufacturing company based in Bacău, Romania.-History:Since its establishment in 1953, the company's name has changed in turn from U.R.A. to I.R.Av, I.Av. and finally Aerostar...

     - Romania
  • Agusta
    Agusta
    Agusta is an Italian helicopter manufacturer. It is based in Samarate, Northern Italy. It is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica. The company was founded by Count Giovanni Agusta in 1923, who flew his first airplane in 1907...

     - Italy
  • Aichi Kokuki
    Aichi Kokuki
    was a Japanese aircraft manufacturer which produced several designs for the Imperial Japanese Navy.The company was established in 1898 in Nagoya as Aichi Tokei Denki Seizo Co., Ltd. . Aircraft production started in 1920, and the company relied initially on technical assistance from Heinkel, which...

     - Japan
  • Air Cooled Motors - U.S.
  • Alfa Romeo
    Alfa Romeo
    Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of cars. Founded as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910, in Milan, the company has been involved in car racing since 1911, and has a reputation for building expensive sports cars...

     — Italy
  • AlliedSignal
    AlliedSignal
    AlliedSignal was an aerospace, automotive and engineering company that acquired and merged with Honeywell for $15 billion in 1999, after which the new group adopted the Honeywell name.AlliedSignal was created through a 1985 merger of Allied Corp...

     - U.S.
  • Allison Engine Company
    Allison Engine Company
    The Allison Engine Company was a U.S. aircraft engine manufacturer. In 1929, shortly after the death of James Allison, the company was purchased by the Fisher brothers. Fisher sold the company to General Motors, who owned it for most of its history...

     — U.S.
  • Alvis
    Alvis Cars
    Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company that existed in Coventry, England from 19191967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles, the...

     — UK
  • Antoinette — France
  • Anzani
    Anzani
    Anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by the Italian Alessandro Anzani , which produced proprietary engines for aircraft, cars, boats, and motorcycles in factories in Britain, France and Italy.-Overview:...

  • Argus Motoren
    Argus Motoren
    Argus Motoren was a German manufacturing firm known for their series of small inverted-V engines and the V-1 pulse jet engine.-History:...

     — Germany
  • Armstrong Siddeley
    Armstrong Siddeley
    Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering group that operated during the first half of the 20th century. It was formed in 1919 and is best known for the production of luxury motor cars and aircraft engines.-Siddeley Autocars:...

     — UK
  • Arrow SNC - Italy
  • Astra Avioane Arad - Romania
  • Austro-Daimler
    Austro-Daimler
    Austro-Daimler was an Austrian automaker company, from 1899 until 1934. It was subsidiary of the German Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft .-Early history:...

     — Austria
  • Austro Engine
    Austro Engine
    Austro Engine is an Austrian manufacturer of aircraft engines based at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria.-History:The production site and headquarters was built in 2007 with an investment of EUR 13 Million. The company was founded by Diamond Aircraft Industries and partners. The products are...

     - Austria
  • Avia
    Avia
    Avia is a Czech aircraft and automotive company notable for producing biplane fighter aircraft, especially the B-534, and trucks.- History :...

     — Czechosloviaka
  • Avio - Italy

B

  • Beardmore
    William Beardmore and Company
    William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active between about 1890 and 1930 and at its peak employed about 40,000 people...

     — UK
  • Beardmore Halford Pullinger
    Beardmore Halford Pullinger
    Beardmore-Halford-Pullinger were aircraft engines used in production between 1916 and 1918. The engines were used on many notable First World War aircraft, such as the Airco DH.4, DH.9, DH.10, de Havilland DH.15 and Avro 529 aircraft....

     — UK
  • Bentley — UK
  • Benz — Germany
  • Blackburn
    Blackburn Aircraft
    Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.-History:...

     — UK
  • Blackburne
    Blackburne (motorcycles)
    Blackburne was a trade name of Burney and Blackburne Limited a British manufacturer of motorcycles from 1913 to 1922 at Tongham near Farnham, Surrey...

     - UK
  • BMW
    BMW
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

    — Germany
  • Boeing Air Company
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

     - U.S.
  • Bramo — Germany
  • Bristol Engine Company — UK
  • Bristol Siddeley
    Bristol Siddeley
    Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd was a British aero engine manufacturer. The company was formed in 1959 by a merger of Bristol Aero-Engines Limited and Armstrong Siddeley Motors Limited. In 1961 the company was expanded by the purchase of the de Havilland Engine Company and the engine division of...

    — UK
  • British Anzani Engine Company
    Anzani
    Anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by the Italian Alessandro Anzani , which produced proprietary engines for aircraft, cars, boats, and motorcycles in factories in Britain, France and Italy.-Overview:...

     — UK
  • Buick
    Buick
    Buick is a premium brand of General Motors . Buick models are sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, and Israel, with China being its largest market. Buick holds the distinction as the oldest active American make...

     — U.S.

C

  • Carden
    Carden Aero Engines
    -References:*Jackson, A.J.J. 1974. British Civil Aircraft, Vol.1. Putnam ISBN 0370100069*Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 1994. ISBN 1-85310-294-6-External links:*...

     — UK
  • CFM International
    CFM International
    CFM International is a joint venture between GE Aviation, a division of General Electric of the United States and Snecma, a division of Safran of France...

    (United States and France)
  • Chevrolet
    Chevrolet
    Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

     — U.S.
  • Chrysler — U.S.
  • Cirrus
    Cirrus Engine
    Cirrus Aero-Engines Limited was a British aircraft engine manufacturer, known for their line of 4-cylinder air-cooled vertical inline engines for general aviation use. The company traded between 1927 and 1931.-History:...

     — UK
  • Clerget-Blin
    Clerget-Blin
    Clerget-Blin was a French precision engineering company formed in 1913 by the engineer and inventor Pierre Clerget and industrialist Eugène Blin...

     — France
  • Compact Radial Engines - Canada
  • CNA
    Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica
    Compagnia Nazionale Aeronautica was a manufacturer of aircraft and aircraft engines established in Italy in 1920 by Count Giovanni Bonmartini. Together with a group of World War I veteran pilots, he operated a flying school in Rome from a field that would eventually be developed into Littorio airport...

     - Italy
  • Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
    Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
    The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation was an Australian aircraft manufacturer. The CAC was established in 1936, to provide Australia with the capability to produce military aircraft and engines.-History:...

     — Australia
  • Teledyne Continental Motors — U.S.
  • Coventry-Victor
    Coventry-Victor
    Coventry-Victor was a British motorcycle and car manufacturer. OriginallyMorton & Weaver, a proprietary engine manufacturer in Hillfields, Coventry, founded in 1904, the company changed its name to Coventry-Victor in 1911...

     — UK
  • Curtiss-Wright
    Curtiss-Wright
    The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States at the end of World War II, but has evolved to largely become a component manufacturer, specializing in actuators, aircraft controls, valves, and metalworking....

    — U.S.
  • Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
    Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
    Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company was an American aircraft manufacturer that went public in 1916 with Glenn Hammond Curtiss as president. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the company was the largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States...

     — U.S.
  • Cuyuna Development Company - USA

D

  • Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz
    Daimler-Benz AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines; founded in 1926. An Agreement of Mutual Interest - which was valid until year 2000 - was signed on 1 May 1924 between Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, which had...

    — Germany
  • de Havilland
    De Havilland
    The de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...

    — UK
  • D. W. Onan — U.S.
  • DeltaHawk - U.S.
  • Douglas
    Douglas (motorcycles)
    Douglas was a British motorcycle manufacturer from 1907–1957 based in Kingswood, Bristol, owned by the Douglas family, and especially known for its horizontally opposed twin cylinder engined bikes and as manufacturers of speedway machines...

     — UK
  • Dongan Engine Manufacturing Company
    Dongan Engine Manufacturing Company
    The Dongan Engine Manufacturing Company is a Chinese engine manufacturer founded in 1948.Also known as the Harbin Engine Factory it first produced the HS7 a 14-cylinder radial piston engine for the Z-5 helicopter.-Engines:...

     - China

E

  • Elizalde
    Elizalde (automobile)
    -Automobile manufacturer:Arturo Elizalde Rouvier opened a garage in Barcelona in 1909, and used it to manufacture automobile parts. He and his brother-in-law, Rafael Biada Navarro, were co-managers of the company they had formed with J. M. Vallet y Arnau, under the name "Sociedad Mercantil J. M....

     — Spain
  • Engine Alliance
    Engine Alliance
    The Engine Alliance is a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney formed in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of modern technology aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range aircraft.The main application for such an engine, the GP7200,...

     — U.S.
  • EADS
    EADS
    The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. is a global pan-European aerospace and defence corporation and a leading defence and military contractor worldwide...

     (European)

F

  • Fairchild — U.S.
  • Farman Aviation Works — France
  • Fiat
    Fiat
    FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

     — Italy
  • Ford of Britain
    Ford of Britain
    Ford of Britain is a British wholly owned subsidiary of Ford of Europe, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. Its business started in 1909 and has its registered office in Brentwood, Essex...

     — UK
  • Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...

     — U.S.
  • Franklin Engine Company
    Franklin Engine Company
    The Franklin Engine Company was a manufacturer of aircraft engines, formed as the H. H. Franklin Co. in 1902, located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Barely surviving bankruptcy in 1933, the company was purchased by a group of ex-employees and renamed Aircooled Motors in 1937...

     — U.S.

G

  • Garrett AiResearch
    Garrett AiResearch
    Garrett AiResearch was a manufacturer of turboprop engines and turbochargers, and a pioneer in numerous aerospace technologies. It was previously known as Aircraft Tool and Supply Company, Garrett Supply Company, AiResearch Manufacturing Company, or simply AiResearch...

     — U.S.
  • Gas Turbine Research Establishment
    Gas Turbine Research Establishment
    Gas Turbine Research Establishment is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation . Located in Bangalore, its primary function is research and development of aero gas-turbines for military aircraft...

     — India
  • GE-Aviation
    GE-Aviation
    GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio . GE Aviation is the top supplier of aircraft engines in the world, and offers engines for the majority of commercial aircraft. GE Aviation is part of the General Electric conglomerate, which is one of the world's...

    — U.S.
    • GE Honda Aero Engines
      GE Honda Aero Engines
      GE Honda Aero Engines LLC is a Cincinnati, Ohio based joint venture between GE Aviation and Honda Aero. GE Honda is headed by Bill Dwyer of GE Aviation and Atsukuni Waragai of Honda Aero...

       — U.S.
  • General — U.S.
  • General Motors — U.S.
  • Glushenkov — Russia/Soviet Union
  • Gnome
    Gnome et Rhône
    Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on...

     — France
  • Gnome et Rhône
    Gnome et Rhône
    Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on...

     — France
  • Green
    Green Engine Co
    The Green Engine Co was an early British aero engine manufacturer. It was founded by Gustavus Green in Bexhill to produce engines of his design during the first two decades of the 20th century. Actual manufacturing was carried out at the Aster Engineering Company of Wembley...

     — UK
  • Guiberson — U.S.

H

  • Hall-Scott
    Hall-Scott
    Hall-Scott was a Berkeley, California-based manufacturing company. It was among the most significant builders of water-cooled aircraft engines prior to World War I.-1910–1921:...

     — U.S.
  • Heinkel-Hirth — Germany
  • Hiero
    Hiero
    Hiero may refer to:* Hiero, a dialogue by Xenophon* Hiero I, tyrant of Syracuse, Italy * Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse * Hiero Desteen, protagonist of two post-apocalypse novels by Sterling E...

     - Austria
  • Hindustan Aeronautics — India
  • Hirth
    Hirth
    Göbler-Hirthmotoren GmbH is an aircraft engine manufacturer based in Benningen, Germany.The company was founded by Hellmuth Hirth in 1920 as Hellmuth Hirth Versuchsbau, renamed Leichtmetall-Werke GmbH and finally Elektronmetall GmbH as a manufacturer of light alloy engine components, including...

     — Germany
  • Hiro Naval Arsenal
    Hiro Naval Arsenal
    The Hiro Naval Arsenal at Kure was a production facility for seaplanes, flying boats, and aero engines for the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II...

     - Japan
  • Hispano-Suiza
    Hispano-Suiza
    Hispano-Suiza was a Spanish automotive and engineering firm, best known for its luxury cars and aviation engines in the pre-World War II period of the twentieth century. In 1923, its French subsidiary became a semi-autonomous partnership with the parent company and is now part of the French SAFRAN...

    — France
  • Hispano-Suiza
    Hispano-Suiza
    Hispano-Suiza was a Spanish automotive and engineering firm, best known for its luxury cars and aviation engines in the pre-World War II period of the twentieth century. In 1923, its French subsidiary became a semi-autonomous partnership with the parent company and is now part of the French SAFRAN...

     — Spain
  • Hitachi
    Hitachi, Ltd.
    is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...

     — Japan
  • HKS - Japan
  • Honeywell
    Honeywell
    Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

     — U.S.

I

  • Industria Aeronautică Română
    Industria Aeronautica Româna
    Industria Aeronautică Română or Romanian Aeronautic Industry in English, is a Romanian aerospace manufacturer founded in 1925. Based in Ghimbav, near Braşov, Romania, the company employs around 1200 specialists including more than 170 engineers...

     - Romania
  • International Aero Engines
    International Aero Engines
    IAE International Aero Engines AG is a Zürich-registered joint venture manufacturing company formed in 1983.- Ownership :Current shareholders are:* Pratt & Whitney of the United States * MTU Aero Engines of Germany...

     (Multinational)
  • Italian American Motor Engineering - Italy
  • Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
    Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
    , formerly known as , is a Japanese company which produces ships, aero-engines, turbochargers for automobiles, industrial machines, power station boilers and other facilities, suspension bridges and other transport-related machinery....

     — Japan
  • Isotta-Fraschini
    Isotta-Fraschini
    Isotta Fraschini represents two Italian manufacturing companies which produce, respectively, marine engines and luxury goods. In the early 20th century it was famous worldwide as a luxury car manufacturer.-History:...

     — Italy
  • ITP
    Industria de Turbo Propulsores
    Industria de Turbo Propulsores S.A. is a Spanish aeronautical engine and gas turbine manufacturer. It is owned by Sener Aeronáutica and Rolls-Royce plc .-Shareholdings/partnerships:...

     - Spain
  • Ivchenko-Progress — Ukraine/Soviet Union

J

  • Jabiru Aircraft
    Jabiru Aircraft
    Jabiru Aircraft Pty Ltd is an Australian aircraft manufacturer that produces a range of kit- and ready-built civil light aircraft in Bundaberg, Queensland. The company also designs and manufactures a range of light aircraft engines...

     — Australia
  • Jacobs
    Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company
    The Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company was formed in 1929 in Philadelphia. Later the company moved to Pottstown, Pennsylvania.An early product was the Jacobs L-3, a small 55 hp 3 cylinder engine of 1929...

     — U.S.
  • J.A.P. - UK
  • JPX - France
  • Junkers — Germany

K

  • Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Company
    Kawasaki Heavy Industries Aerospace Company
    is the aerospace division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. It produces aircraft, space systems, simulators, jet engines, missiles, and electronic equipment.-Pre-war genesis:...

     — Japan
  • Ken Royce — Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
  • Kinner — U.S.
  • Klimov
    Klimov
    The Kirill Klimov Experimental Design Bureau under the direction of Vladimir Yakovlevich Klimov designed engines for Soviet aircraft. The OKB was formed in the early 1930s to produce and improve upon the liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza 12Y V-12 piston engine for which the USSR had acquired a license...

     — Russia/Soviet Union
  • Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz — Germany
  • Kuznetsov
    Kuznetsov (aircraft engines)
    The Kuznetsov Design Bureau was a Soviet design bureau for aircraft engines, administrated by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov. It was created for developing German WW2 jet engine technology headed by a group of deported Junkers engineers under Ferdinand Brandner.The Kuznetzov Bureau first became...

    — Russia/Soviet Union

L

  • Lawrance
    Lawrance Aero Engine Company
    Lawrance Aero Engine Company was an American aircraft engine manufacturer. Founded by engine pioneer Charles Lawrance, it designed one of the first successful air-cooled radial engines...

     — U.S.
  • Le Rhône
    Le Rhône
    Le Rhône was the name given to a series of popular rotary aircraft engines produced in France by Société des Moteurs Le Rhône and the successor company of Gnome et Rhône. They powered a number of military aircraft types of the First World War...

     — France
  • LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation
    LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation
    LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation was a small engine manufacturer incorporated on April 11, 1928 and located on the northwest corner of Madison and Edwards Roads in Norwood, Ohio as a subsidiary of the R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, a well known manufacturer of machinist...

     — U.S.
  • LHTEC
    LHTEC
    LHTEC is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Honeywell. The company was originally a partnership between the Allison Engine Company and AlliedSignal Aerospace...

     — U.S.
  • Lincoln Motor
    Lincoln (automobile)
    Lincoln is an American luxury vehicle brand of the Ford Motor Company. Lincoln vehicles are sold mostly in North America.-History:The company was founded in August 1915 by Henry M. Leland, one of the founders of Cadillac . During World War I, he left Cadillac which was sold to General Motors...

     — U.S.
  • Limbach Flugmotoren
    Limbach Flugmotoren
    Limbach Flugmotoren is a German company that produces aircraft engines. The company is named after Peter Limbach who expanded his father's engine repair business in the 1970s in Königswinter. By May 2006, Limbach had produced more than 6000 engines for light aircraft, ultralight aircraft and...

     — Germany
  • LMC - China
  • Lorraine-Dietrich
    Lorraine-Dietrich
    Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935, created when railway locomotive manufacturer Société Lorraine des Anciens Etablissments de Dietrich and Cie branched into the manufacture of automobiles...

     — France
  • Lotarev — Russia/Soviet Union (see Ivchenko-Progress)
  • Lycoming (Avco)
    Lycoming Engines
    Lycoming Engines is a U.S. aircraft engine company, known primarily for its general aviation engines. For most of its history Lycoming has been part of the AVCO group as AVCO Lycoming. In 1987 AVCO was purchased by Textron to become Textron Lycoming...

    — U.S.
  • Lyulka
    Lyulka
    Lyul'ka was a USSR aero-engine design bureau and manufacturer from 1938 to the 1990s, when manufacturing and design elements were integrated as NPO Saturn based at Rybinsk...

    — Russia/Soviet Union

M

  • Maybach
    Maybach
    Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH is a German luxury car manufacturer. It was founded in 1909 by Wilhelm Maybach and his son. The company was originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and was itself known as Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH until 1912.Today, the ultra-luxury car brand is owned by...

     — Germany
  • McCulloch Motors — U.S.
  • Mercedes-Benz
    Mercedes-Benz
    Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...

     — Germany
  • Menasco Manufacturing Company — U.S.
  • Metropolitan-Vickers
    Metropolitan-Vickers
    Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam...

     — UK
  • Microturbo — France
  • Mikulin - Russia/Soviet Union
  • Mistral Engine Company
    Mistral Engine Company
    Mistral Engine Company is a Swiss firm formed in 2001 with the purpose of developing engines for light aircraft and helicopters. Its headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland...

     - Switzerland
  • Mitsubishi Aircraft Company — Japan
  • Motor Sich
    Motor Sich
    Motor Sich is an airline based in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. It operates passenger and cargo services, including charter and scheduled flights. Its main base is Zaporizhia International Airport....

     - Ukraine
  • Motorlet
    Walter Engines
    The Walter Aircraft Engines was a company that manufactures aircraft engines, particularly the M601 turboprop. Based in Prague, Czech Republic, the company has been a subsidiary of GE Aviation since July 2008.-History:...

     — Czech Republic
  • MTR (MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce)
    MTR (MTU/Turbomeca/Rolls-Royce)
    MTU Turbomeca Rolls-Royce Gmbh is a joint venture among three European aero-engine manufacturers, MTU Aero Engines, Turbomeca and Rolls-Royce....

     (European)
  • MTU Aero Engines
    MTU Aero Engines
    MTU Aero Engines GmbH is Germany's leading aircraft engine manufacturer. MTU develops, manufactures and provides service support for military and civil aircraft engines...

     — Germany

N

  • Nakajima Aircraft Company
    Nakajima Aircraft Company
    The Nakajima Aircraft Company was a prominent Japanese aircraft manufacturer throughout World War II.-History:...

     — Japan
  • Napier & Son
    Napier & Son
    D. Napier & Son Limited was a British engine and pre-Great War automobile manufacturer and one of the most important aircraft engine manufacturers in the early to mid-20th century...

    — UK
  • Noel Penny Turbines
    Noel Penny Turbines
    Noel Penny Turbines was a British company that produced small jet engines, most notably the Noel Penny NPT301....

     - UK

O

  • Oberursel
    Motorenfabrik Oberursel
    Motorenfabrik Oberursel A.G. was a German manufacturer of automobile, locomotive and aircraft engines situated in Oberursel , near Frankfurt , Germany. During World War I it supplied a major 100 hp-class rotary engine that was used in a number of early-war fighter aircraft designs...

     — Germany
  • Orenda — Canada
  • Otto-Flugzeugwerke
    Otto-Flugzeugwerke
    Gustav Otto Flugzeugwerke, founded in 1910 by Gustav Otto, was one of the pioneering aircraft producers at the turn of the 20th Century. It was merged into BFW, the company that eventually became BMW AG....

     – Germany

P

  • Packard
    Packard
    Packard was an American luxury-type automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana...

     — U.S.
  • Pegasus Aviation (NZ) Ltd - New Zealand
  • Piaggio
    Piaggio
    Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands of scooters, motorcycles and compact commercial vehicles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five research and development centers, more than...

     — Italy
  • Piaggio-Lycoming (United States and Italy)
  • Pobjoy Airmotors
    Pobjoy Airmotors
    Pobjoy Airmotors and Aircraft was a British manufacturer of small aircraft engines. The company was purchased by Short Brothers shortly before the start of World War II, production continuing until the end of the war.-History:...

     — UK
  • Polish Engines — Poland
  • Potez engines - France
  • Power Jets
    Power Jets
    Power Jets Ltd was a United Kingdom company set up by Frank Whittle for the purpose of designing and manufacturing jet engines.-History:Founded on January 27, 1936, the company consisted of Whittle, Rolf Dudley-Williams, James Collingwood Tinling, and Lancelot Law Whyte of investment bankers O T...

     — UK
  • Praga
    Praga Hostivar
    Praga is a manufacturing company based in Prague. In 2006, it was purchased by International Truck Alliance.- History :Praga was founded in 1907 to build motor cars. as a venture between Frantisek Ringhoffer and the First Czech-Moravian Machine Factory. Ringhoffer only stayed for one year and in...

     - Czech Republic
  • Praha-Jinonice — Czech Republic
  • Praha-Liben — Czech Republic
  • Pratt & Whitney Canada
    Pratt & Whitney Canada
    Pratt & Whitney Canada is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney , itself a business unit of United Technologies...

    — Canada
  • Pratt & Whitney
    Pratt & Whitney
    Pratt & Whitney is a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation . Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut, USA...

    — U.S.
  • PZI — Poland
  • PZL
    PZL
    PZL was the main Polish aerospace manufacturer of the interwar period, based in Warsaw, functioning in 1928-1939...

     — Poland

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  • Ranger — U.S.
  • Rapp-Motorenwerke GmbH — Germany
  • Reaction Motors
    Reaction Motors
    Reaction Motors Inc. was an early American maker of liquid-fueled rocket engines, located in New Jersey. RMI engines with thrust powered the Bell X-1 rocket aircraft that first broke the sound barrier in 1947, and later successors including the X-1A, X1E, and the D558-2 Douglas Skyrocket...

     — U.S.
  • Reid Gas Engine Co — U.S.
  • Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

     — France
  • Ricardo-Halford — UK
  • Rhone
    Gnome et Rhône
    Gnome et Rhône was a major French aircraft engine manufacturer. Between 1914 and 1918 they produced 25,000 of their 9-cylinder Delta and Le Rhône 110 hp rotary designs, while another 75,000 were produced by various licensees, powering the majority of aircraft in the first half of the war on...

     — France
  • Righter — U.S.
  • Rockwell
    Rockwell International
    Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation....

     - U.S.
  • Rolls-Royce North America
    Rolls-Royce North America
    Rolls-Royce North America, Inc. is a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc involved principally in the manufacture of gas turbine engines and other propulsion systems...

     — U.S.
  • Rolls-Royce Limited
    Rolls-Royce Limited
    Rolls-Royce Limited was a renowned British car and, from 1914 on, aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce on 15 March 1906 as the result of a partnership formed in 1904....

    — UK
  • Rolls-Royce plc
    Rolls-Royce plc
    Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...

    — UK
  • Rotax
    Rotax
    BRP-Powertrain GmbH & Co KG , commonly known simply as Rotax, is an Austrian engine manufacturer. It develops and produces four-stroke and advanced two-stroke engines for Bombardier Recreational Products products as well as for motorcycles, karts,...

    — Austria
  • Rotec Engineering — Australia
  • RotorWay International
    RotorWay International
    RotorWay International, located in Chandler, Arizona, is a manufacturer of kit helicopters. The company was founded by B.J. Schramm in 1961 as RotorWay Aircraft. RotorWay International was bought February 14, 2007 by a small group of investors comprising the company's upper level...

     - U.S.
  • Royal Aircraft Factory - UK

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  • Saab
    Saab
    Saab AB is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937. From 1947 to 1990 it was the parent company of automobile manufacturer Saab Automobile, and between 1968 and 1995 the company was in a merger with commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania, known as Saab-Scania.-History:"Svenska...

     — Sweden
  • Salmson
    Salmson
    Salmson was a French engineering company, initially in the automobile and aeroplane manufacturing area,turning to pump manufacturing in the 1960s.-History:...

     — France
  • Schmidding — Germany
  • Scott
    The Scott Motorcycle Company
    The Scott Motorcycle Company was owned by Scott Motors Limited, Shipley, West Yorkshire, England and was a well known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry...

     — UK
  • Shenyang
    Shenyang Aeroengine Research Institute
    Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute is a Chinese design institute and jointer partners with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation for military aircraft engines.-Products:* Turbofan WS-10, Taihang* Turbojet WP-14, Kunlun...

    — China
  • Shvetsov
    Shvetsov
    Arkadiy Dmitrievich Shvetsov was a Soviet aircraft engine designer whose OKB was founded in Perm, USSR, in 1934, to produce the Wright Cyclone-derived Shvetsov M-25 engine...

     — Russia/Soviet Union
  • Siddeley-Deasy
    Siddeley-Deasy
    Siddeley-Deasy was a British automobile, engine and aircraft company based in Coventry in the early 20th century. It was central to the formation, by merger and buy-out, of the later Armstrong Sideleley Motor and Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft companies....

     — UK
  • Siemens AG
    Siemens AG
    Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

     — Germany
  • Siemens-Halske — Germany
  • Skoda Works
    Škoda Works
    Škoda Works was the largest industrial enterprise in Austro-Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia, one of its successor states. It was also one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Europe in the 20th century...

     — Czech Republic
  • Snecma
    Snecma
    Snecma is a major French manufacturer of engines for commercial and military aircraft, and for space vehicles. The name is an acronym for Société Nationale d'Étude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation .In 2005, the Snecma group, which included Snecma ,...

    — France
  • Solar Aircraft Company
    Solar Turbines
    Solar Turbines Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., designs and manufactures industrial gas turbines for on- and off-shore electrical power generation, for marine propulsion and for producing, processing and transporting natural gas and oil. Solar Turbines is one of the...

     — US
  • Soloviev
    Soloviev
    Soloviev was a Soviet design bureau for aircraft engines, led by Pavel Aleksandrovich Soloviev. It first became notable for the D-15 engine that powered the Myasishchev M-50 in 1957. Other notable designs included the D-25 turboshaft and D-20 and D-30 turbofans.Following the dissolution of the...

     — Russia/Soviet Union
  • Studebaker
    Studebaker
    Studebaker Corporation was a United States wagon and automobile manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. Founded in 1852 and incorporated in 1868 under the name of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company, the company was originally a producer of wagons for farmers, miners, and the...

     — U.S.
  • Sunbeam — UK
  • Svenska Flygmotor — Sweden
  • Szekely Aircraft & Engine Co. — U.S.

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  • Techspace Aero — Belgium
  • Teledyne Continental Motors - AL, USA
  • Thielert
    Thielert
    Thielert AG is a German financial holding company which has owned engine development and manufacturing companies. It is headquartered in Hamburg. Companies owned were Thielert Aircraft Engines GmbH with sites in Lichtenstein, Saxony and Altenburg, Thuringia and Superior Air Parts, Inc. in Dallas,...

     — Germany
  • Tokyo Gasu Denki — Japan
  • Trace Engines — USA
  • Tumansky — Russia/Soviet Union
  • Turbomeca
    Turbomeca
    Turbomeca is a French manufacturer of low- and medium-power gas turbine turboshaft engines for helicopters. The company also produces gas turbine engines for aircraft and missiles, as well as turbines for land, industrial and marine applications...

    — France
  • Turbomecanica - Romania
  • Turkish Aerospace Industries
    Turkish Aerospace Industries
    Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. is the center of technology in design, development, manufacturing, integration of aerospace systems, modernization and after sales support in Turkey....

     - Turkey
  • Turbo-Union
    Turbo-Union
    Turbo-Union Limited is a joint venture between three European aero-engine manufacturers, FiatAvio , MTU Aero Engines and Rolls-Royce.-Products:...

    — Germany

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  • Walter
    Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft
    Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft , commonly known as the Walter-Werke, was a German company founded by Professor Hellmuth Walter to pursue his interest in engines using hydrogen peroxide as a fuel....

     — Germany
  • Walter Engines
    Walter Engines
    The Walter Aircraft Engines was a company that manufactures aircraft engines, particularly the M601 turboprop. Based in Prague, Czech Republic, the company has been a subsidiary of GE Aviation since July 2008.-History:...

     - Czech Republic
  • Warner Aircraft
    Warner Aircraft Corporation
    The Warner Aircraft Corporation of Detroit, Michigan was the manufacturer of the Scarab family of radial engines for airplanes in 1928 through the early 1930s.-History:...

     — U.S.
  • Westinghouse — U.S.
  • Williams International
    Williams International
    Williams International is a manufacturer of small gas turbine engines based in Walled Lake, Michigan, United States. It produces jet engines for cruise missiles and small jet-powered aircraft.- History :...

     — U.S.
  • Wolseley Motor Company
    Wolseley Motor Company
    The Wolseley Motor Company was a British automobile manufacturer founded in 1901. After 1935 it was incorporated into larger companies but the Wolseley name remained as an upmarket marque until 1975.-History:...

    — U.K.
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