Continental IO-360-ES
401 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Continental IO-360-ES engine, rated at about 210 horsepower. The Cirrus SR20 is the model most often fitted with it (387 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 2000 and 2023.
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-360-ES. FAA spelling: IO-360-ES.
Fitted to model families
Cirrus SR20 · Quartz Mountain Aerospace Inc 11 · Luscombe 11 · Bloodworth Tommy LANCAIR ES · Mark Overby RV-7 · N419Cm Llc VANS RV10 · Temco T-35A
Where they are owner's state
Kind of aircraft
When the aircraft were built by decade
What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Continental IO-360-ES the component layer
No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 176 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 66 of them in the last ten years.
Failure reports 176 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
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
- Cirrus SR20 387 with this engine series
- Quartz Mountain Aerospace Inc 11 8 with this engine series
- Luscombe 11 2 with this engine series
- N419Cm Llc VANS RV10 1 with this engine series
- Florida 57 of these aircraft
- California 35 of these aircraft
- Michigan 26 of these aircraft
- Texas 24 of these aircraft
- South Carolina 19 of these aircraft
- Aerosim Academy INC 22 of these aircraft
- Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University 16 of these aircraft
- International Air Services INC Trustee 5 of these aircraft
- Ocf Air LLC 4 of these aircraft
- Ascent Aviation INC 4 of these aircraft
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360-ES 176 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/continental-io-360-es.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 401
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N585SP | Cirrus Design Corp SR20 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Eagle Aviation Columbia LLC West Columbia, South Carolina |
Standard | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
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.