Tennessee Propellers

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Tennessee Propellers
Industry Aerospace
Founded1981
Defunct2020
Headquarters,
United States
Products Aircraft propellers
Website tn-prop.com

Tennessee Propellers, Inc, founded in 1981, was an American manufacturer of wooden propellers for homebuilt and ultralight aircraft. The company headquarters was located in Rising Fawn, Georgia. [1] [2]

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By December 2020 the company website was up for sale and the company is presumed to have ceased business. [3]

The company made two-bladed propellers from maple laminates in diameters up to 72 in (1.83 m) for engines up to 100 hp (75 kW). The company is also the distributor for parts for the discontinued Japanese Zenoah G-25 and G-50 line of aircraft engines. In the early 2000s they also produced their own powered parachute design, the Scout, but the aircraft is now out of production. [1] [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Purdy, Don: AeroCrafter - Homebuilt Aircraft Sourcebook, page 85. BAI Communications. ISBN   0-9636409-4-1
  2. Tennessee Propellers (n.d.). "About Us" . Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  3. Tucows.com Co. (2020). "tn-prop.com has expired". tn-prop.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.
  4. Cliche, Andre: Ultralight Aircraft Shopper's Guide 8th Edition, page D-12. Cybair Limited Publishing, 2001. ISBN   0-9680628-1-4
  5. Tennessee Propellers. "Zenoah Engines" . Retrieved March 18, 2012.