FLYWEIGHTTM STARTERS

"I just wanted to let you know that you have made a customer (and friend) for life... I can't remember when I have ever been treated so nice... it was as if the entire staff dropped what they were doing and focused solely on my needs. I know you do this for all your customers, but wow, how refreshing it is to experience this level of customer service. ..  How cool is it that as a customer, you are actually invited back to the shop to watch and ask questions. A special thanks to Ken ...  and to Miranda ...  for making checkout fun... 

 

I will be telling everyone I know that they should choose Sky-Tec for all their starter needs."

- Wayne Patterson, Richardson, Texas

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Lycoming High-Torque Inline Series

 

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What's Hot?...

 

Self-Resetting

Kickback Protection

now STANDARD

on all ST2 small 

Continental Starters

 

 

NEWLY IMPROVED

ST5 Series Starters for

Large-bore Continental

Engines.

Now tougher than ever.

 

 

 

Self-Resetting
Kickback Protection

now STANDARD

on all Original High Torque HT Model Lycoming Starters

featuring

 

Sky-Tec's exclusive

KPS® (Kickback Protection System)

 

 

C85-12 through O300-C owners rejoice!

 

Sky-Tec's lightweight ST2 series starters now all feature the industry's first self-resetting Kickback Protection System. 

 

The kickback protection system in the new ST2-series starters was demonstrated by Continental Engines to withstand more than 40 kickbacks with no degradation in starter performance!

 

ST starters with internal, self-resetting kickback protection are the starter of choice for most small Continental engine applications including: 

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Continental powered Cessna 150s & 172s

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Ercoupes, Taylorcrafts and Luscumbes

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Piper Cubs and Aeronca Chiefs

 

ST2 series starters feature:
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Low current, high efficiency motors,

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KPS Kickback protection,

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STC eligibility for pull-start conversions,

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PMA eligibility for factory key-start engines,

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Ignition-optimized fast cranking speed, 

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Light weight, and 

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Zero maintenance.  

featuring

 

Sky-Tec's exclusive

KPS® (Kickback Protection System)

 

 

Introducing Sky-Tec's newest Continental starter:  The ST5 Series.

 

The ST5 features Sky-Tec's most powerful motor to date - Sky-Tec own proprietary
2.2 kW permanent magnet motor. 

 

The ST5 was engineered for the hardest to start large bore Continental engine powered aircraft such as:  

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12V and 24V, 520 and 550-powered Beech Bonanzas

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24V Cessna Twins

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24V Cirrus SR20 and SR22's

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Tough to-start big bore TCM aircraft with stout electrical systems

 

ST5 series starters feature:
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Powerful 2.2 kW permanant magnet motors

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Solenoid engagement/disengagement - safe for all TCM starter adapters

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KPS Kickback protection

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Small size fits nearly all right-angle starter adapter applications

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Ignition-optimized fast cranking speed, 

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Light weight, and 

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Zero maintenance.  

now featuring

 

Sky-Tec's exclusive

KPS® (Kickback Protection System)

 

 

Sky-Tec HT series starters now feature the industry's first self-resetting Kickback Protection System!

 

A proprietary internal drive system automatically decouples the starter’s powerful high torque motor from the Lycoming engine’s flywheel in the event of an ignition kickback during startup.  The drive system automatically resets requiring  no replacement, adjustment, repair or maintenance before or after a kickback. 

 

The new kickback protected HT series starters are the perfect solution for Lycoming Powered helicopters including: 

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Robinson R-22 (149-12HT-h),

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Robinson R-44 (149-24HT-h),

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Enstrom F28 (149-12HT or 149-24HT),

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Schweitzer 269's (149-24HT),

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and many others.

 

HT series starters feature:

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Highly durable cast mount systems

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Fast spin (no, not "too" fast)

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PMA eligibility to replace Prestolite and B&C starters

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Light weight, and 

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Zero maintenance.  

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Sky-Tec

 

More than 100,000 pilots and aircraft owners like you have selected Sky-Tec starters for their aircraft. Sky-Tec's singular relentless focus is simple: offer customers the best value, best performing lightweight starters for their piston engine powered aircraft. That is all we do. And we do it quite well.

 


LEADERSHIP - No one sells more aircraft piston engine starters than Sky-Tec.  No one.  Lycoming, Continental, and engine rebuilders the world 'round have come to rely on Sky-Tec performance and Sky-Tec quality - first and foremost.

 


SINGULAR FOCUS | SINGULAR PASSION | TOTAL COMMITMENT - Sky-Tec is a family company with one product line, one obsession, and one commitment: to develop, manufacture, sell and support the world's best aircraft piston engine starters.  We are in this for the long-haul.  And our future depends on ALL Sky-Tec customers being satisfied.  Your satisfaction is our singular goal each and every day.

 


RELENTLESS PURSUIT - Sky-Tec starters may be the best Lycoming and Continental engine customers can buy, but Sky-Tec believes its starters can be even better.  That is why we continuously analyze, research, engineer, test, prove and improve all of our starter designs.  After all, we did say "obsession" (above)

 


EXPERIENCE - Sky-Tec's Partners have more than 125 years combined experience in product development, engineering, auto electric, manufacturing, sales, marketing and customer support.  Sky-Tec enjoys supplier relationships dating back more than 30 years.

 


SENSIBLE APPROACH - Sky-Tec uses simple, affordable technologies in everything we do using centrifugal mechanical engagement drives, not Bendix drives on all Lycoming starters and starter adapter friendly decoupling clutch mechanisms on Continental starters.  Whenever appropriate, Sky-Tec starters use its exclusive simple, reliable, maintenance-free KPS (Kickback Protection System).  And everything we do is geared toward sensible affordability, quality and value.

 


Flyweight™ - Don't confuse weight with power. Sky-Tec starters actually offer BOTH: Light weight AND high torque. It's how we roll.

 

High Torque - Sky-Tec starters utilize significant gear reduction methods to produce a vast increase in available torque and optimum cranking rotation speed.  Let no one mislead you by saying Sky-Tec starters spin "too fast."  Sky-Tec dials-in every starter to crank at the optimum cranking speed for the application.  On Lycoming applications, RPM is increased by 2X and sometimes even more over heavyweight OEM starters.  On Continental starters, slow and steady wins the race - our friends at Continental helped us dial our starters in at just the right RPM for reliably starting Continental engines.  

 


Rugged Designs - Sky-Tec starters are engineered to exceed engine TBO lifetimes and withstand the toughest operating environments.

 

Unmatched Customer Service - And if a starter happens to not make it past engine TBO, we roll up our sleeves and get your starter back in service better than anyone.  Sky-Tec understands how to take care of customers who happen upon a problem and we also know how to swallow our pride and take care of our customers when something Sky-Tec did contributed to the problem. When "it" happens, we get to work and take care of our customers. 

 

 

Personal & In Touch - We are pilots and aircraft owners too. We understand fitment, performance and troubleshooting issues.  And we can help.  If you have a question, contact us.  If you have a problem, contact us.  If you have feedback, contact us.  

 

 

 

 

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Sky-Tec Calendar

Please come by and visit with us at any of this year's fly-in events:

 

 

2012

 

Sun 'n Fun

(Lakeland, FL)

March 27-April 1

 

EAA Oshkosh (Airventure)  

Monday, July 23 -
Sunday, July 29

 

 

 

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