Century Propeller Corporation is a machine shop nestled in the small town of Franklin, Pennsylvania, halfway between Erie and Pittsburgh.

Century Propeller was started by Rob Eakin as a support system to his parents’ Airboat Drive Transmission product line. The machine shop quickly grew into its own entity, supporting its product line and other local companies.

Century has continued to grow over the years by hiring quality employees, expanding its customer base, and purchasing the equipment to support that variety of customers. Century has kept up with modern technology as well as any other fully capable machine shop of its size. Century has the latest MasterCAM Programming Software, SolidWorks CAD/CAM program, 2018 NLX4000 DMG-Mori live tooling turning center, full 4-axis OKK horizontal mill, FARO arm 3D measuring arm, and many other support and state-of-the-art equipment. (See full machine list).

Century prides itself on always creating a quality product. Whether it is our continued production of the original drive units, a new product line, or your one-off prototype, we will put the same quality effort into the product every time. Century is fully capable of taking any project from start to finish.