New Lycoming Multi-Fuel Engine Soars Past 10,000 Flight Hours Onboard the Aerosonde® SUAS
Improved Reliability Powers Performance in TheaterNavy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, National Harbor, Md. — April 7, 2014 — AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, and Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, announced today that Lycoming’s new EL-005 multi-fuel engine has surpassed 10,000 deployed flight hours with the Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) in service of U.S. Department of Defense customers in Afghanistan. “The Lycoming EL-005 has made Aerosonde the only SUAS in its class with a power plant designed and manufactured by a