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» For the German company see Hellmuth Walter Kommanditgesellschaft
Walter Engines a.s. is a
Czech company based in
Prague that manufactures aircraft engines, in particular the M601 turboprop used in the Let L-410 19-seat aircraft.
History
The company was founded by Josef Walter in 1911 to produce motorcycles and motor tricycles. They started to manufacture cars in 1913, both their own models, and later the
Fiat 508 and
Fiat 514 on license. Car production ceased in 1954.
From the early 1920's the company manufactured
BMW aircraft engines on license, as well as their own family of air-cooled radial piston engines. In the 1930s Walter also produced
Bristol Jupiter,
Mercury and
Pegasus engines on license, before producing their own in-line inverted air-cooled four- and six-cylinder engines, and in 1936 an air-cooled inverted
V12.
Walter aircraft engines were used by the Air Forces of thirteen countries before
World War II.
During World War II Walter produced
Argus engines under license for Germany. Production of the
BMW 003 turbojet was put into preparation, but none were produced.
The Walter plant survived the war intact and in 1946 the company was
nationalized as
Motorlet n.e. They produced Soviet-licensed piston engines, and in 1952 production of the Walter M05 jet engine began - this was the Soviet
Klimov VK-1 engine, based on the
Rolls-Royce Nene, which powered the
MiG 15, and was exported to many countries. The company produced a series of Soviet-designed engines during the 1950s and 1960s, though piston engine production was closed and handed over to
Avia in 1964.
In 1995 the company was
privatised as
Walter a.s., and in 2005 the aviation engine division became
Walter Engines a.s.. In July 2006 it was acquired by the Czech investment firm, FF Invest. In March 2007 it was announced that Walter Engines a.s would merge with Avia's aero-engine division.
(External Link
) The company was also merged with the precision casting company CPS.
In September 2007 it was announced that the Company's assets (which don't include its current facility in Prague) would be purchased by GE Aviation.
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