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Green E.6

Green E.6

FieldValue
nameE.6
imageFile:Green E6 FAAM 01.jpg
captionPreserved Green E.6 on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum
engine_typePiston aero engine
manufacturerGreen Engine Co Ltd
first_runDecember 1911
number_built42

The Green E.6 was a British six-cylinder, water-cooled aero engine that first ran in 1911, it was designed by Gustavus Green and built by the Green Engine Co and Mirlees, Bickerton & Day of Stockport between August 1914 and December 1918.

Applications

  • Avro 504K
  • Avro 523A
  • Bass-Paterson flying boat
  • Cody Type V
  • Eastbourne Aviation Circuit biplane
  • Gnosspelius Hydro Tractor Biplane
  • Grahame-White Type X Charabanc
  • Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2a
  • Short S.68 Seaplane
  • Sopwith Bat Boat
  • Sopwith Three-seater
  • Sopwith 1913 Circuit of Britain floatplane
  • Sopwith Type TT

Engines on display

A preserved Green E.6 engine is on public display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton.

Specifications (E.6)

Green E.6 aircraft engine on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton

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References

Notes

Bibliography

  • Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989.
  • Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

References

  1. Gunston 1986, p. 74.
  2. Lumsden 2003, p. 156.
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