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Engines · piston (reciprocating) · data as of October 5, 2026

Lycoming GO-480-G2D6

3 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Lycoming GO-480-G2D6 engine, rated at about 280 horsepower. The Beechcraft D-50 is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1950 and 1971.

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 Lycoming GO-480-G2D6. FAA spelling: GO-480-G2D6.

Fitted to model families

Beechcraft D-501Helio H-2951Navion NAVION B1

Beechcraft D-50 · Helio H-295 · Navion NAVION B

Where they are owner's state

Montana1Louisiana1Illinois1

Kind of aircraft

Piston singles2 (67%)Piston twins1 (33%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

001222195011970

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Lycoming GO-480-G2D6 the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E-275, held by Lycoming Engines). The FAA has issued 12 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 12 airworthiness directives · newest first

2012-03-272012-03-07 · Carburetor · engine
2004-06-252004-10-14 · Crankshaft gear · engine
2003-08-142003-14-03 · Rotary fuel pumps · engine
1998-09-2898-18-12 · Fuel Pump · engine
1997-08-1297-15-11 · Cylinder kits · engine
1992-07-1092-12-05 · Piston Pins · engine

All orders naming the Lycoming GO-480-G2D6

Failure reports 1 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

00011103

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Exhaust Valve1

Latest reports

2003-06-20Exhaust Valve: broken

Certificates and bulletins

E-275Type certificate held by Lycoming Engines · 33 models listed · revised June 23, 2010

Safety bulletins 2 · advice, not orders

2019-05-02NE-19-08 · Reciprocating Engine Cylinder Section - Lycoming Engines Parallel Valve Cylinders
2014-03-24NE-14-13 · Reciprocating Engine - Cylinder Mounting Studs

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
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/lycoming-go-480-g2d6.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 3

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N295GC Helio
H-295
Fixed-wing, single engine Meternet Mt LLC
Polson, Montana
Standard 2022-01-14 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N5295K Navion
NAVION B
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Louisiana
Standard 2016-09-27 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N4948B Beech
D-50
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Krause Aviation LLC
Geneva, Illinois
Standard 2001-04-20 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.