type private company industry aerospace founded 1967 headquarters coppell texas united states key people ceo tim archer products aircraft engines and parts owner superior aviation beijing website www.superiorairparts.com superior air parts inc. is a manufacturer of aviation piston engine replacement parts headquartered in coppell texas united states and owned by the chinese company superior aviation beijing . superior xp360 engine superior air parts started as a manufacturer of valve guides in 1967 . the company branched out into faa pma approved parts for general aviation aircraft . the company manufactures replacement parts for lycoming and continental aircraft engines . the cylinder assemblies use newer cylinder head alloys and fully hardened cylinder liners . 1 most of the company s production is outsourced with superior ensuring that the parts meet their engineering and testing standards . 2 in 2008 superior air parts parent company thielert declared bankruptcy . superior was sold to superior aviation beijing qingdao brantly investment group and beijing suyoupeirui company . at airventure 2012 ceo tim archer announced that the company was recovering from its bankruptcy and that the chinese investment had been critical in that turn around . the company was at that time able to ship almost 90 % of parts in its catalog and was training chinese technicians in vantage engine production for the asian market . 3 engines edit summary of engines built by superior air parts model name first run number built type superior air parts vantage four cylinder horizontally opposed air cooled aircraft engine superior air parts xp 360 four cylinder horizontally opposed air cooled aircraft engine references edit j. mac mclellan august 1996 . a superior solution . flying . talking about gps pma . flying 8 . january 1993 . bertorelli paul 15 july 2012 . superior air parts uptick in sales fuels recovery . avweb . retrieved 24 july 2012 . external links edit official website new diesel engine with some similarity to the junkers jumo 205 . video retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title superior air parts & oldid 668343144 categories aircraft engine manufacturers of the united statescompanies based in coppell texas navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages bahasa indonesia edit links this page was last modified on 23 june 2015 at 19 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view