Viking Aircraft Engines - How it started - Jan Eggenfellner 

We do another one on February 3rd!

But if Jan decides to pull the pin, you won't be able to buy spare parts for your engine

@@flytoday that’s true with any company

@@Navy1977 I have no idea, and not 100% sure of your question. Any company can fold and just go away, yes bankruptcy is one avenue. How long does a guy have to pay for past mistakes? Not for me to judge. If you are a person that doesn’t trust Jan or Viking as a company then buy a different engine. You don’t have to do business with a company you don’t like or trust, That’s the great thing about America. I don’t remember the specifics of his first company going under, but the Federal government put things in place to help people protect themselves in the way of Bankruptcy. Plus it can help the creditors. Several different ways, I’m not sure how Jan handled it. But with his numbers with the Viking company he is at a point where he can probably just sell the company to a investor or person that wants to continue the Viking company. I don’t know his numbers, but it seems he built a profitable business with Viking. The Aviation community needs companies like Vikings to give home builders a choice to the High dollar Rotax and UL Power engines. The great thing about Viking, i was interested in a aircraft that had limited engine options from the factory. I Called Jan at Viking about installing their small little Mitsubishi 90hp engine on a Chinook LSA. It’s a pusher Aircraft. The Chinook company only offered the 582 and the 912 80hp. Jan was willing to design a engine mount and do the installation if I brought him the fuselage. Figure out the prop that worked best and if I remember right he offered to test fly the new aircraft with his engine if I brought the wings. How many engine companies will give you that kinda service? People can say what that want about Jan, but he has spent a lot of time and money designing these car engines to work in Experimental aircraft. If a car engine is not for you then buy a Rotax, UL Power, Continental 0200 100hp, Franklin now offers a new 4 cylinder 125hp Direct drive kit to fit the Kitfox aircraft. A lot of options out there if you don’t want a Viking in your aircraft. I’m excited to see how the new 125hp Franklin preforms. Be cool to see them offer a Firewall forward kit for a Zenith 750 STOL aircraft. So many options and people always argue about what engine a guy chooses for his aircraft. I feel it should be the one you are happy to fly behind. EAB is a small group, we should support each other and not judge. Again this is my opinion. 🇺🇸🦅

I doubt that Lycoming will ever pull the pin.

Buy his engine and tune it up to 250-300hp. That engine will go to 1000 for drag racers!

Titan has some v6 options that are over 200hp

​@@waveman8923Drag racers are constantly rebuilding engines between races...

@@galactictomato1434 I agree but an engine that can do 1000 Hp can easily sustain 300 for years!

You heard correctly

Making up and sharing rumors. That is FAR from the truth, keep in mind when many businesses went under in 09’ that included over 20 different Subaru businesses. Many customers still happily flying their Subaru powered aircraft. What was left, was in fact paid back, which is more than can be said for many of the companies that leave people high and dry because there isn’t a bailout for small business owners. The shadow gets cast over 15 years later, purely due to having a singular person they want to blame, and many want to blame even IF they had and received everything because they never finished their project (like many).

Yeah, I wouldn’t trust this guy again. I had a deposit on the Subaru but never got it back. I got out lucky… I think it was only $250.

@flytoday…shame that some folks can’t resist the urge to tear down positive, educational videos with negative comments. I do, however, wholly support, and fought to protect, your 1A rights. Like the interesting choice to have a swastika on your channel’s aircraft. But hey, that’s your right.

@@ScrumViperDriver funny how when you want to combat somebody online you have to look at their profile to dig up any dirt.

Last I heard it was over $2M in undelivered engines and all his customers that had engines lost access to spare parts. Certainly he left his customers with a choice of removing the engines or flying them until they crashed.

@@flytoday Making up and sharing rumors. That is FAR from the truth, keep in mind when many businesses went under in 09’ that included over 20 different Subaru businesses. Many customers still happily flying their Subaru powered aircraft. What was left, was in fact paid back, which is more than can be said for many of the companies that leave people high and dry because there isn’t a bailout for small business owners. The shadow gets cast over 15 years later, purely due to having a singular person they want to blame, and many want to blame even IF they had and received everything because they never finished their project (like many)

@@alissaeggenfellner4613 you don't know what the truth is

@@flytoday you clearly don't

@@Navy1977a lot of debt was not discharged and most people (the few at the end that actually lost money) were all paid back. Even some many years later out of good faith. In the entire extent of the business it never made that much money let alone owed it. Aviation is not very profitable and takes heart and soul - and at a younger age you learn a lot about business, design and everything in between. Part of that failure is what made this business successful. Life is about learning, he was in his 20s when he started with Subaru’s and was just doing what he loved and it turned into a business. A lot was learned. We have been doing Viking for almost 13 years with a lot of very happy customers and proven reliability. If people don’t trust that, fine.