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

Lycoming O-435-C

5 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Lycoming O-435-C engine, rated at about 175 horsepower. The Stinson L-5 is the model most often fitted with it (3 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1942 and 1947.

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-435-C. FAA spelling: O-435-C.

Fitted to model families

Stinson L-53Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon1Stinson-Vultee/Hahn/Baxter L-51

Stinson L-5 · Stinson 108 Voyager and Station Wagon · Stinson-Vultee/Hahn/Baxter L-5

Where they are owner's state

Texas2Minnesota1Florida1Connecticut1

Kind of aircraft

Piston singles5 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0124551940

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Lycoming O-435-C the component layer

The FAA has issued 1 airworthiness directive (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 2 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 1 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 1 airworthiness directives · newest first

2026-04-082026-04-11 · Engine (Reciprocating) · engine

Failure reports 2 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

00011102114

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Elt1Thrust Link1

Latest reports

2014-07-28Elt: faulty
2002-05-08Thrust Link: corroded

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-o-435-c.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 5

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N9416K Stinson
108-2
Fixed-wing, single engine Co-owned owner
Texas
Standard 2022-08-04 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N194 Stinson
L-5
Fixed-wing, single engine Skyraider A1E LLC
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Standard 2020-06-04 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N98629 Stinson
L-5
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Florida
Standard 2015-10-09 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N9615H Stinson
L-5
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Minnesota
Standard 2014-08-07 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N142LB Stinson-Vultee/Hahn/Baxter
L-5
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Texas
Experimental 2005-04-04 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.