bret
Well Known Member
Got an email response today about a question I sent ADEPT a while back.
Thank you very much for contacting us in March about our engine availability. I apologise for a delayed response, it's due to a minor technical and administrative difficulty. We officially opened sales at the start of this years Oshkosh and we are taking $2500 refundable deposits for production slots. Production officially starts early next year and currently we are in a production build up and accelerated endurance testing program. Over the last 4 years, we have had no mechanical failures and we are actually going to be running two test benches soon to get rid of the statistical anomalies in our test program. The 280N engine that you are after will be available at $65 000 full firewall foward, excluding prop and governor. Although, we can currently give you up to 17% off on an MT propeller and we are currently working on some deals with McCauley. Full Firewall forward includes all reservoirs, radiators, injectors, ECU's, hoses, etc. This price may seem a bit high, but our TBO is currently set at 2500 hours and a full top to bottom overhaul only costs $10 000 in today's money and a full service wont cost more than $100 in parts. We also claim the best power to weight ratios and similar fuel consumptions to the diesels. Our power to weight ratio is 1 hp per pound and we are getting between 6 and 7 gallons hour in the cruise. Furthermore, our engines can burn ordinary autogas or unleaded avgas or anyone of the ethanol blended fuels. There's almost a $2 per gallon saving in that. Our engines pay for themselves!
If you are interested in any more details or putting your name down on our mailing list for deposit taking, please don't hesitate to contact us again. Alternatively, you can continue to follow our website or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
Thank you very much for contacting us in March about our engine availability. I apologise for a delayed response, it's due to a minor technical and administrative difficulty. We officially opened sales at the start of this years Oshkosh and we are taking $2500 refundable deposits for production slots. Production officially starts early next year and currently we are in a production build up and accelerated endurance testing program. Over the last 4 years, we have had no mechanical failures and we are actually going to be running two test benches soon to get rid of the statistical anomalies in our test program. The 280N engine that you are after will be available at $65 000 full firewall foward, excluding prop and governor. Although, we can currently give you up to 17% off on an MT propeller and we are currently working on some deals with McCauley. Full Firewall forward includes all reservoirs, radiators, injectors, ECU's, hoses, etc. This price may seem a bit high, but our TBO is currently set at 2500 hours and a full top to bottom overhaul only costs $10 000 in today's money and a full service wont cost more than $100 in parts. We also claim the best power to weight ratios and similar fuel consumptions to the diesels. Our power to weight ratio is 1 hp per pound and we are getting between 6 and 7 gallons hour in the cruise. Furthermore, our engines can burn ordinary autogas or unleaded avgas or anyone of the ethanol blended fuels. There's almost a $2 per gallon saving in that. Our engines pay for themselves!
If you are interested in any more details or putting your name down on our mailing list for deposit taking, please don't hesitate to contact us again. Alternatively, you can continue to follow our website or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
