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

Lycoming O-360-A4M

418 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Lycoming O-360-A4M engine, rated at about 180 horsepower. The Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow is the model most often fitted with it (340 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1966 and 2022.

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 O-360-A4M. FAA spelling: O-360-A4M.

Fitted to model families

Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow340Cessna 172 Skyhawk23Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star12Cessna F172G2Piper PA-18 Super Cub2Ahlgren Jon E AVID MAGNUM1Andres U Katz VANS RV-81Argetsinger Dennis P VANS RV-81Clarence Michael Osborne MC SPECIAL1David Magaw RV-41Eaker Raymond L RV-7A1Floyd G Halderman Jr VANS RV6A1

Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow · Cessna 172 Skyhawk · Diamond Aircraft DA 40 Diamond Star · Cessna F172G · Piper PA-18 Super Cub · Ahlgren Jon E AVID MAGNUM · Andres U Katz VANS RV-8 · Argetsinger Dennis P VANS RV-8 · Clarence Michael Osborne MC SPECIAL · David Magaw RV-4

Where they are owner's state

Delaware178Florida33Utah30Georgia29Arizona29Texas15California13Minnesota11Pennsylvania5Nevada5

Kind of aircraft

Piston singles418 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0601201802402195031960341970519801419905320002402010602020

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Lycoming O-360-A4M the component layer

No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 559 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 149 of them in the last ten years.

Failure reports 559 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

01836547295000510152025226

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Bracket47Cylinder Head37Carburetor33Impulse Coupling28Cylinder27Tube24Oil Cooler21Channel17Magneto17Pump13

Latest reports

2026-07-02Carburetor: faulted
2026-03-20Impulse Coupling: defective
2025-09-09Cylinder Head: cracked
2025-04-08Retaining Ring: defective
2024-11-15Carburetor: faulted

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/lycoming-o-360-a4m.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 418

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N416FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N417FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N418FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N422FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N423FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N424FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N425FP Diamond Aircraft
DA40 F
Electric airplane Utah State University
Logan, Utah
Standard 2006-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N187TP New Piper Aircraft Inc
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine R G R Holdings LLC
Spring Branch, Texas
Standard 2006-05-09 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N430RM New Piper Aircraft Inc
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Rocky Mountain College
Billings, Montana
Standard 2006-04-24 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N742RV Wehrell Kenneth Kaeye
VANS ACFT RV-6A
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Georgia
Experimental 2005-08-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N4126U Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Standard 2004-09-07 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N6066H Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Flaps INC
Cincinnati, Ohio
Standard 1995-10-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N1973V Cessna
172M
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Illinois
Standard 1995-04-11 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N2886K Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Florida
Standard 1993-04-19 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N4719F Cessna
172N
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Florida
Standard 1985-12-30 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N5918V Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Minnesota
Standard 1982-04-06 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N608AC Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Bas Part Sales LLC
Greeley, Colorado
Standard ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N613AC Piper
PA-28-181
Fixed-wing, single engine Bas Part Sales LLC
Greeley, Colorado
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.