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Engines · turboprop · data as of October 12, 2026

Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-12

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-12 engine, rated at about 940 horsepower. The Short Brothers Plc S312 is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft).

The FAA records engines by code, usually at the level of a series ("O-320 series") rather than the exact variant; this page gathers every FAA code that reads as Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-12. FAA spelling: TPE331-12.

Fitted to model families

Model families, as a table
aircraft
Short Brothers Plc S3121

Short Brothers Plc S312

Where they are owner's state

By state, as a table
aircraft
Pennsylvania1

Kind of aircraft

By kind, as a table
aircraftshare
Turboprops1100%

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111980
By decade built, as a table
aircraft
19801

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Garrett (Honeywell) TPE331-12 the component layer

No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 4 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 2 of them in the last ten years.

Failure reports 4 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

00122109112223
Failure reports by year, as a table
reports
091
121
232

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Parts most reported, as a table
reports
Brake Sys1
Engine1
Master Cylinder1
Reduction Gb1

Latest reports

2023-06-18Engine: damaged
2023-03-24Reduction Gb: auto shutdown
2012-07-18Master Cylinder: malfunctioned
2009-09-14Brake Sys: failed

Approved replacement parts 7 parts manufacturer approvals

Parts a company other than the maker may make for this engine and sell as FAA-approved. The companies holding the most:

Most often: fuel control (3), seal (2), spring (1), main fuel (1).

Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.

Connections how this engine series links to the rest of the register

Fitted to
Where they are
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/engine/garrett-honeywell-tpe331-12.json.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N8093Z Short Brothers Plc
S312 TUCANO T MK1
Fixed-wing, single engine Coastal Defense INC
Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
Experimental 2013-05-15 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (the engine reference table and each aircraft's engine code), October 12, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.