Easy replacement of Cessna strobe beacon, brighter and no radio noise!

Kenneth F Verified Purchase

Whelen OR36R2N Red LED Beacon 28 VDC 2.6 Upper

This is probably the best LED option out there for small GA aircraft. It is quite bright, and about 1/3 the height of the usual red housing. Note the mounting pattern is different than the two-fastener legacy units it is intended to replace. I would also love to have Whelens profit margin in my own business.

Troy C Verified Purchase

Whelen OR36R2N Red LED Beacon 28 VDC 2.6 Upper

A high quality product. Easy installation, very bright LEDs, no bulb to burn out, and much lower power consumption. Unlikely this will need any further maintenance, ever! Great!

Michael R Verified Purchase

Whelen OR36R2N Red LED Beacon 28 VDC 2.6 Upper

Awesome beacon! I installed on my Cessna 150G. So bright, I know I will not be missed for sure. almost to bright for night flying though, it flashes inside the cabin. But not to bad.

Item only took about an hour for my A&P to install. works great---- should have done this years ago.

Jay O Verified Purchase

Whelen OR36R2N Red LED Beacon 28 VDC 2.6 Upper

Replaced the original tail beacon on a 172N. This unit is super bright!

Pacific A Verified Purchase

Whelen OR36R2N Red LED Beacon 28 VDC 2.6 Upper

There are two things you can count on any Whelen products: they are good and extremely overpriced. Since our need to replace the old, broken and heavy coffee grinder was immediate, we pulled the trigger on this unit. Its very easy to install and you dont need to wait until its dark to appreciate its brightness. We can spot our both C-150s beacons on the ground all the way across the airport or anywhere in the pattern during broad daylight.

Excellent product. Easy to install and VERY bright

I replaced the rotating beacon on my 1957 182 with this light. It was a real easy install and it is a much brighter light. Well worth the cost.

Extremely bright. Easy installation get rid of expensive cessna parts. Winner!

Perfect fit to replace an original beacon on a 1967 Citabria 7KCAB. Much brighter than the original with a fraction of the amperage draw.

Nice piece installed in 10 min. Works great no more motor or bulbs to worry about. Oh yes very bright !

This LED style flash beacon replaced an old flash tube style that utilized a power supply. The power supply was failing to produce sufficient power to operate the flash tube. The increase in visibility of the aircraft is greatly improved with the LED Orion 360 and the need for a power supply has been eliminated.

Very bright beacon for the small size, easy to install...

I really like this beacon which is extremely bright, and increases my hangar clearance since it is mounted on the top of the vertical stabilizer and is much lower profile than the one it replaced. I was really surprised by how easy the installation was.

My only reason for giving this product 4 stars, is because of the paucity of information when it comes to installation. While its very straight forward, this beacon is supposed to work in conjunction with the A440 adapter plate when replacing legacy Grimes rotating beacons with a five hold mounting patttern, but when the beacon is put in this adapter, there is about a 1/16 gap all the way around, between the vertical aspect of the adapter and the side of the beacon. Its a 1/8 discrepacy between the two diameters. I can only assume, that this gap is to be filled with some sort of fuselage sealant. If not water would enter inside of the plane through this void. The three screws holding the beacon into the adapter can deform the adapter if made too tight. I got around this by placing a 1/16 c.s. o-ring between the beacon and adapter to tighten down the screws without deforming anything, and then sealed above that o-ring with sealant. No where was this called out in the installation instructions--not with the beacon and not with the adapter.

Great looking strobe to replace the Grimes that wasn’t rotating anymore. The fit in the rudder cap was pretty good, but left a slight gap around the radius of the fixture. Installing was easy.

This was a replacement fir a mid-80’s Whelen strobe that had finally failed. Installation was simple and straightforward, aside from accessing the fasteners inside the aircraft. The three threaded mounting holes on the light housing did not line up to the original light holes. Two were perfect, but the 3rd was off by 15 degrees. This meant drilling a new hole in the base to line up with the 3rd threaded hole on the light. While not necessarily a problem with this light, the Whelen to Whelen compatibility issue was surprising. Please note that this light does require a base in usable condition, as it slides inside an existing base and a new one is not provided. Once operating, the LEFs are daylight-visible and the entire unit looks great!