GLENWOOD, MINN. – With winter fast approaching, aircraft owners need to prepare their aircraft for cold weather operation.
Cold weather starts can seriously damage an airplane’s engine and shorten its life. With a Tanis engine preheat system, safety is greatly enhanced over traditional engine preheating methods that use flame or a glowing heat source.
Tanis manufactures the only engine preheater that provides heat directly to the cylinder head and oil sump, specifically for piston engines. Tanis also has preheaters for turbine aircraft and helicopters. Tanis has developed custom preheaters for Augusta, Bell, Brantley, Enstrom, Eurocopter, MD/Hughes, Robinson, Rotorway, Schweizer and Sikorsky helicopters.
Tanis preheaters include a heavy-duty electrical harness with an optional flush mount plug for quick connections and a remote indicator light so pilots are assured that the preheater is getting electricity. There’s nothing worse than plugging in an engine preheater and finding out that the circuit breaker from the electrical
your engine is cold when you are ready to depart. The remote indicator light on a Tanis preheater, can prevent that from happening.
Tanis also has battery and cabin preheaters, and insulated engine and propeller covers to complete your aircraft preheat and winter weather operation needs.
Tanis’ patented battery preheater is designed to safely warm an aircraft battery and ensure its optimum cranking power. Tanis cabin preheaters warm both cabin and cockpit, enabling critical operation of panel instruments. Custom fitted, insulated engine and propeller covers allow for up to 4 to 5-hour layovers without preheating, plus they install easily and store compactly.
Contact Tanis Aircraft Products at 1-800-443-2136 or 320-634-4772 for additional information, or see their complete product line at www.TanisAircraft.com.
