The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Engines · piston (reciprocating) · data as of October 5, 2026

Continental IO-240-B

212 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Continental IO-240-B engine, rated at about 125 horsepower. The Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse is the model most often fitted with it (191 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 2003 and 2025.

The FAA records engines by code, usually at the level of a series ("O-320 series") rather than the exact variant; this page gathers every FAA code that reads as Continental IO-240-B. FAA spelling: IO-240-B.

Fitted to model families

Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse191Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-212David Magaw CUBBY1Eagle Aircraft 150B1Hoffman Roger REBEL1John Balkema JOHN DOE1Liberty Aerospace Incorporated XL-21Martin Charles A KITFOX MODEL V1Massoth James H KITFOX VIXEN1Randy Schlitter S-16 SHEKARI1Stranix H J/Wilson D L KITFOX SERIES 51

Diamond Aircraft DA20 Katana and Eclipse · Liberty Aerospace Incorporated LIBERTY XL-2 · David Magaw CUBBY · Eagle Aircraft 150B · Hoffman Roger REBEL · John Balkema JOHN DOE · Liberty Aerospace Incorporated XL-2 · Martin Charles A KITFOX MODEL V · Massoth James H KITFOX VIXEN · Randy Schlitter S-16 SHEKARI

Where they are owner's state

Colorado55Texas28Utah15Michigan15Montana12Indiana12Missouri11Delaware8Ohio5New York5

Kind of aircraft

Piston singles212 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

03264951271272000362010422020

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Continental IO-240-B the component layer

No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 346 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 36 of them in the last ten years.

Failure reports 346 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

0163248649904091420125

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Pump34Indicator17Gauge13Bracket12Gear12Seal11Throttle Body11Fork10Bolt9Tube9

Latest reports

2025-07-08Exhaust Rocker: sheared
2024-08-22Stud: sheared
2023-03-24Landing Gear: broken
2023-01-20Throttle Arm: worn
2020-12-15Coil: failed

Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.

Connections how this engine series links to the rest of the register

Fitted to
Where they are
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/continental-io-240-b.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 212

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N919DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-21 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N920DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-21 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N921DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-21 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N922DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N923DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N924DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N925DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N926DA Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Cae Doss Aviation INC
Pueblo, Colorado
Standard 2006-11-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N771SF Liberty Aerospace Incorporated
LIBERTY XL-2
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Massachusetts
Standard 2006-06-15 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N323HB Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Striker Aviation LLC
Bozeman, Montana
Standard 2005-11-09 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N57NY Liberty Aerospace Incorporated
LIBERTY XL-2
Fixed-wing, single engine Taylor Aviation INC
Montgomery, New York
Standard ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N926AF Diamond Aircraft
DA20-C1
Electric airplane Kansas City Aviation Center INC
Olathe, Kansas
Standard ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (the engine reference table and each aircraft's engine code), October 5, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.