Packard and Continental V-1650

[pjpahs]

Was looking at the Aircraft Engine Historical Society website and just looking around. Under piston engine ,Packard, I found under "Packard Aero Engine Statistics"(91K PDF) a list of engines built. with the V-1650-1 to V-1650-25 models , they built 55,873. Also noted that Continental built a total of 897 V-1650 of 4 different models. Smithsonian Air And Space also noted the Continental engines being built. I didn't know of the Continental built V-1650 . Wonder if any survived , and what aircraft they were installed in. I'm not a member and what I looked under is open to the curious public. Lists the engines built from 1922 to 1944, boatload of types.

[Cvairwerks]

Continental ws contracted in Dec '43 to produce a run of 8500 V-1650-7's. First engine was completed in July '44. In June of '44, they were also being set up to build -9's. The war in Europe ending in May of '45 halted the production at Continental, with a total of 797 engines produced.

Info came from "Master Motor Builders" by Robert J Neal.

Air Zoo has a Continental in their collection.