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  • Bentley B.R.2

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The B.R.2 was a British designed and built air-cooled rotary engine of 230 hp, which was developed late in World War I. The British Sopwith 7F-1 Snipe was especially designed to use the B.R.2, although only three front-line squadrons had been equipped with the

  • Gnome B-9

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The French Gnome B-9 air-cooled engine of 100 hp was built in the United States under license by the General Vehicle Co. of Long Island City, N.Y. It was a "Monosoupape" type in that it had only one valve per cylinder. The B-9 was installed in several types of

  • Fiat A-12

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The Fiat A-12 engine is a six-cylinder, liquid-cooled, in-line engine of 260 hp. It was used in such aircraft as the S.I.A. 7B1, Fiat R-2, S.A.M.L. S-2 reconnaissance aircraft, and the Caproni Ca. 46 bomber.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions

  • British ABC Wasp

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The ABC Wasp is an experimental seven-cylinder, radial engine of 170 hp, designed by the noted British engineer Granville Bradshaw. At a weight of 290 pounds, it had one of the most advanced power-to-weight ratios of the day -- 1.7 pounds per horsepower. This

  • BMW 132E

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The BMW 132 series was the principal large radial engine used in Germany during the early 1930s. It was essentially a copy of the Pratt and Whitney "Hornet" designed in America. In 1929 BMW (Bavarian Motor Works) obtained a license to build the "Hornet" in

  • Renault 12-F

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The French-built Renault 12-F engine was used in the Brequet 14 and Voisin 10 two-seater observation and bombing planes flown by American forces in France during World War I. TECHNICAL NOTES: Type: 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, Vee Rated hp: 300Click here to

  • Anzani 10

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The French and British-built Anzani 10 was an air-cooled radial engine of 90-100 hp. It was installed in the French-produced Caudron G.3 and later the Caudron G.4 twin-engine airplane, which appeared in March 1915. By the time the United States began sending

  • Lorraine-Dietrich 8Be

    Note: This item is currently in storage.Production of the French Lorraine-Dietrich V-8 type engine began in late 1917 and included the 8B, 8Ba, 8Bd and 8Be. This 8Be engine is of the same general type as that used in the two-place SPAD XVI aircraft of World War I. TECHNICAL NOTES: Model: 8Be Type:

  • Packard 3A-2500

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The 3A-2500 is a 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, direct-drive engine. Packard developed this engine, an improved version of the Packard 2A-2500 used on the Huff-Daland Keystone LB-1 bomber, in the late 1920s. This basic engine also was produced in geared and

  • VB-10 Guided Bomb

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The VB-10 was a radio-guided bomb in the ROC series which was directed by a bombardier in response to data broadcast from a television camera in the nose of the bomb or in response to visual sighting. The VB-10 used a standard 1,000-pound bomb and a circular