page_title: Rotax
section_title: Aircraft engines
hierarchical_section_title: Rotax / Products / Aircraft engines
caption_attribution_description: English: A Rotax 582 engine installed on a Quad City Challenger II ultralight aeroplane at the Carleton Place Fly-in 2006
context_page_description: Rotax is the brand name for a range of internal combustion engines developed and manufactured by the Austrian company BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co KG, in turn owned by the Canadian Bombardier Recreational Products.
  Rotax four-stroke and advanced two-stroke engines are used in a wide variety of small land, sea and airborne vehicles. Bombardier Recreational Products use them in their own range of such vehicles. In the light aircraft class, in 1998 Rotax outsold all other aero engine manufacturers combined.
context_section_description: Rotax supplies aircraft engines for ultralight aircraft, light aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
  Rotax engines designed specifically for light aircraft include both four-stroke and two-stroke models. 
  Current models are:
  Rotax 912 series, four-stroke
  Rotax 914 series, four-stroke
  Rotax 915 series, four-stroke
  Rotax 582 UL, two-stroke
  Historical models no longer in production include:
  Rotax 275, two-stroke
  Rotax 277, two-stroke
  Rotax 377, two-stroke
  Rotax 447 UL, two-stroke
  Rotax 503 UL, two-stroke
  Rotax 532 UL, two-stroke
  Rotax 535 certified two-stroke
  Rotax 618 UL, two-stroke
caption: Rotax 582 mounted in a Quad City Challenger II
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