The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Engines · piston (reciprocating) · data as of November 2, 2026

Gm LS3

9 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Gm LS3 engine, rated at about 430 horsepower. The Henry E Avent Jr SPITFIRE MK 26B is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1947 and 2023.

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 Gm LS3. FAA spelling: LS3.

Fitted to model families

Henry E Avent Jr SPITFIRE MK 26B1Len Baxter VELOCITY XLRG-51Mccaslin Dale A TITAN T51D MUSTANG1Oded Tsur TITAN T-51D MUSTANG1Passeno Jeffrey P GLASAIR III1Republic RC-31Steven Kregel T51 TITAN AIRCRAFT1Timothy J Diestel SR 35001Tod R Whitmore T-51D1
Model families, as a table
aircraft
Henry E Avent Jr SPITFIRE MK 26B1
Len Baxter VELOCITY XLRG-51
Mccaslin Dale A TITAN T51D MUSTANG1
Oded Tsur TITAN T-51D MUSTANG1
Passeno Jeffrey P GLASAIR III1
Republic RC-31
Steven Kregel T51 TITAN AIRCRAFT1
Timothy J Diestel SR 35001
Tod R Whitmore T-51D1

Henry E Avent Jr SPITFIRE MK 26B · Len Baxter VELOCITY XLRG-5 · Mccaslin Dale A TITAN T51D MUSTANG · Oded Tsur TITAN T-51D MUSTANG · Passeno Jeffrey P GLASAIR III · Republic RC-3 · Steven Kregel T51 TITAN AIRCRAFT · Timothy J Diestel SR 3500 · Tod R Whitmore T-51D

Kind of aircraft

By kind, as a table
aircraftshare
Piston singles9100%

When the aircraft were built by decade

By decade built, as a table
aircraft
19401
20103
20205

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

Fitted to
Where they are

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/engine/gm-ls3.json.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 9

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N151KK Steven Kregel
T51 TITAN AIRCRAFT
Fixed-wing, single engine Youngs Aviation Services INC
Bainbridge, Georgia
Experimental 2026-10-28 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N669TD Timothy J Diestel
SR 3500
Fixed-wing, single engine Turbine Motor Conversions LLC
Pullman, Washington
Experimental 2026-05-21 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N451Z Republic
RC-3
Fixed-wing, single engine Co-owned owner
Kansas
Experimental 2025-12-12 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N98LD Len Baxter
VELOCITY XLRG-5
Fixed-wing, single engine Watson Aviation LLC
Gaines, Michigan
Experimental 2025-09-24 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N110AD Oded Tsur
TITAN T-51D MUSTANG
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
California
Experimental 2023-05-11 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N26YB Henry E Avent Jr
SPITFIRE MK 26B
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
South Carolina
Experimental 2023-01-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N900JP Passeno Jeffrey P
GLASAIR III
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Florida
Experimental 2021-11-24 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N451DC Mccaslin Dale A
TITAN T51D MUSTANG
Fixed-wing, single engine Co-owned owner
Missouri
Experimental 2019-02-27 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N551TW Tod R Whitmore
T-51D
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Illinois
Experimental 2018-06-19 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), November 2, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.