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Aircraft and Engine Photos

Over the years Radial Engines Limited has built and installed hundreds of engines in some of the most beautiful aircraft flying today. This gallery highlights many of the aircraft we service.

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Cutaway Jacobs R755

Barn full of engines awaiting overhaul

1929 Jacobs LA-1

Cessna LC-126 in flight

Two Travel Air D4Ds

1929 Travel Air D4D

Aroura Borealis and an Alaskan C-195

A load of Jacobs engines coming to REL

Waco ad from 1944

Cessna LC-126 in flight

Waco QCF-2s at OSH

1926 Wright J4

1926 Wright J4 closeup

1926 Wright J4

1930 Fairchild 71

Cessna 195

1929 Wright J6-9 closeup

1929 Wright J6-9

1929 Bellanca CH-300 on floats

1929 Bellanca CH-300 on wheels

The earliest remaining Jacobs engine (B-1, s/n 4) 1927

Barn full of engines

1939 Spartan 7W Executive

Stearman in Austria

Cessna LC-126

1930 Waco CSO

Steve in the hangar

1929 Wright J6-7 (side)

1929 Wright J6-7 (front)

Travel Air 6000 runup

Wright R975 closeup

1929 Travel Air 6000

End of a long day at the auction

1934 Waco YKC

Stearman inventory in a California warehouse

Continental A70 (rear)

Continental A70 (side)

1930 Continental A70 (front)

Stinson SR9

Cessna 195

Side view of the Waco GXE

Darren Butcher in his LC-126

Steph, Steve, Caleb, and Brandon at our booth Oshkosh 2016

Loading up the Seabird in California to come home

1932 Waco QCF-2

First flight of the fuel injected Cessna 195

AOPA Waco engine on the test stand

Steve and Caleb at OSH 2015

Testing unusable fuel on the YMF-5

Lifting the YMF-5 tail for fuel tests

Unusual attitude fuel test of YMF-5

Engine test of first fuel injected YMF-5

2004 Waco Classic YMF-5

Waco UPF-7

Building an engine in our booth Oshkosh 2015

1937 Waco YPF

R755B2

Lycoming R680 closeup

Jacobs R755B2

W670 closeup

Seabirds

W670 Continental

Our ghostly 1937 Fleetwings Seabird

Lycoming R680-17

Meyers OTW

Jacobs powered Staggerwing

Vintage Aviation Advertisements

The 1920s and 30s, the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’ and Second World War were times of intense aviation development. The competition between both engine and airframe manufacturers was intense as each firm unveiled new designs and as advances were made in performance and efficiency. Nowhere was this seen more clearly than in the advertising of the day.

CUSTOMER PHOTOS

Our customers help define who we are as a company so we created this gallery to showcase our customers aircraft. If you would like to send us a photo to include in this gallery, email the photo and a caption to webmaster@radialengines.com.