Suter Industries
UAV engines co-developed with Compass Aircraft Engines GmbH
Overview
Suter Industries AG produces UAV engines that were co-developed with Compass Aircraft Engines GmbH (CAE GmbH). Suter’s roots go back to the motorcycle racing era of the 1990s. Eskil Suter was a successful Grand Prix racing driver and founded the Suter Racing company in 1996. The company is known for their “SuterClutch” and other products for the motorcycle racing market including high-performance engines, motorcycles and various components. In 2015, Suter Racing launched a four-cylinder 2-stroke racing motorcycle that was developed and produced in house including the Suter500 2-stroke engine.
Milestones
- 2018: Dietrich Kehe approaches Suter Industries to start developing a new advanced line of UAV engines.
- Dietrich Kehe is a mechanical engineer with over 24 years’ experience in manned and unmanned 2-stroke aircraft engines with Hirth Motors of Stuttgart. He received his engineering degree with a focus on combustion engines from the University of Hochschule für Technik – Esslingen (Stuttgart, Germany)
- Dietrich forms CAE Engines and teams with Suter Industries to develop UAV engines. Dietrich’s UAV engine experience with Suter’s 2-stroke racing engine design/testing/production experience/capabilities has resulted in a world class UAV engine supplier.
Product Offering: Standard vs. Custom Solutions
Since 2002 Suter has applied their expertise gained from the motorcycle racing market to develop products for other markets including automotive, aerospace and defense. The Suter/CAE collaboration and development of UAV engines is one of the new products coming out of Suter Industries.
The first engine to be developed by the Suter/CAE team is the Suter 288 engine which is a twin cylinder, horizontal opposed, air cooled, two cycle engine, with fuel saving electronic engine management system and a 1kW starter/generator. Displacement is 288cm3. Power: 13.3kW (18HP) @5700rpm, 17.5kW (24HP) @6500rpm. We now have (4) engines: TOA288 (air-cooled 288cc gasoline), TOW288 (water-cooled 288cc gasoline, TOA330-SDI (air-cooled 330cc gasoline) and HF-TOA288-SDI (air-cooled 288cc semi-direct injected heavy fuel engine). The engines have automatic altitude and temperature compensation and we have versions that run on gasoline or heavy fuel (Jet-A1, JP5, JP8). All engines are produced in Switzerland and are 100% tested and supplied with a certificate of conformance.
288cc & 330cc Gasoline & Heavy Fuel Engines
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The latest 288CC / 330CC Engines.
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