dream upgrade

PZL the polish company that had been building the Franklin engines has been
bought out by Pratt and Whitney. PZL's main business is making turbines and
superchargers and apparently that is what Pratt and Whitney was interested
in. They have shut down the production of the Franklin engines and that part
of the business is up for sale. There is a rumor that an outfit in Texas
will probably buy it and start production again, but right now there are no
new engines being built.

Franklin Engines in Fort Collins CO. is probably in no hurry to respond to
your email because Pratt and Whitney has canceled all of the Franklin
dealerships. However, if the engines do become available again they will be
involved because they hold the STC's for the installation of the engines in
a number of planes.

"Newps" wrote in message
news:cI0fb.481603$Oz4.320169@rwcrnsc54...
If Franklin is the one that is being manufactured in Europe somewhere,
Poland I think I heard, they are belly up.

John Godwin wrote:

ospam (Rosspilot) wrote in
:


Cost/benefit seems way out of line at first look . . . still exploring
the Franklin 220 . . . no response from them yet.


http://franklinengines.com/220HP.cfm