Continental IO-550-R
7 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Continental IO-550-R engine, rated at about 310 horsepower. The Beechcraft D-45 is the model most often fitted with it (2 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1946 and 2009.
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-550-R. FAA spelling: IO-550-R.
Fitted to model families
Beechcraft D-45 · Cirrus SR22 · Navion NAVION F · North American NAVION A · North American NAVION F · Beechcraft A36 Bonanza
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-550-R the component layer
The design is held under 1 type certificate (E3SO, held by Continental Aerospace Technologies, INC.). The FAA has issued 20 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 1 failure report with the FAA since 1995, 1 of them in the last ten years.
FAA orders 20 airworthiness directives · newest first
Failure reports 1 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
Certificates and bulletins
Safety bulletins 9 · advice, not orders
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
- Beechcraft D-45 2 with this engine series
- Cirrus SR22 1 with this engine series
- Navion NAVION F 1 with this engine series
- North American NAVION A 1 with this engine series
- Beechcraft A36 Bonanza 1 with this engine series
- Washington 2 of these aircraft
- Utah 1 of these aircraft
- Pennsylvania 1 of these aircraft
- Ohio 1 of these aircraft
- Montana 1 of these aircraft
- Textron Aviation INC 1 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-550-R 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550-R 1 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/continental-io-550-r.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 7
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N334JV | Beech D-45 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Ohio |
Standard | 2023-12-08 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N363KK | Cirrus Design Corp SR22 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Washington |
Standard | 2023-09-03 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N4892K | Navion NAVION F |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Co-owned owner Montana |
Standard | 2019-12-12 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N5137B | Raytheon Aircraft Company A36 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Textron Aviation INC Wichita, Kansas |
Standard | 2017-02-03 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N7071X | Beech D-45 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Blackwell Aviation INC Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania |
Standard | 2015-05-06 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N704VS | North American NAVION A |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Flight Level Engineering LLC Vineyard, Utah |
Experimental | 2015-02-25 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N947SH | North American NAVION F |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Washington |
Standard | PendingFAA registration status code R: Registration pending. 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.