Lycoming IO-360-B1F
8 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Lycoming IO-360-B1F engine, rated at about 180 horsepower. The Bruce W Moore VANS RV8 is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1979 and 2018.
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 IO-360-B1F. FAA spelling: IO-360-B1F.
Fitted to model families
Bruce W Moore VANS RV8 · Cessna 172 Skyhawk · Garry V Laznicka LANCAIR 360MK-IIC · Hooker Douglas L RV-8 · Northstar Realty Group Inc LANCAIR 360 · Paolo Fanti LANCAIR 360 · Patmor Richard Dean 360 PEGASUS · Woods Robert LANCAIR 360
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 Lycoming IO-360-B1F the component layer
The design is held under 1 type certificate (1E10, held by Lycoming Engines). The FAA has issued 33 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 33 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 6 · 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
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 1 with this engine series
- Texas 3 of these aircraft
- South Carolina 1 of these aircraft
- Nevada 1 of these aircraft
- Missouri 1 of these aircraft
- Kansas 1 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B1F 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-B1F 1 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/lycoming-io-360-b1f.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 8
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N365DA | Hooker Douglas L RV-8 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner South Carolina |
Experimental | 2026-09-01 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N980PT | Paolo Fanti LANCAIR 360 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Neeley Aero Consulting LLC Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Experimental | 2025-04-02 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N77BW | Woods Robert LANCAIR 360 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Texas |
Experimental | 2024-05-21 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N360GL | Garry V Laznicka LANCAIR 360MK-IIC |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Missouri |
Experimental | 2022-08-04 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N367EZ | Northstar Realty Group Inc LANCAIR 360 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Texas |
Experimental | 2017-07-20 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N72WN | Patmor Richard Dean 360 PEGASUS |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Co-owned owner Nevada |
Experimental | 2015-12-21 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N364WM | Bruce W Moore VANS RV8 |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Individual owner Texas |
Experimental | 2014-02-14 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N8281E | Cessna 172N |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Air Plains Services CORP Wellington, Kansas |
Experimental | 1997-04-28 | 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.