The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Engines · two-cycle piston · data as of October 30, 2026

Rotax 277

4 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Rotax 277 engine, rated at about 26 horsepower. The Dahnke Timothy D LM-1U is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1983 and 2024.

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 Rotax 277. FAA spelling: 277.

Fitted to model families

Dahnke Timothy D LM-1U1Gilson David R FP-2021Mccarthy Scott L MITCHELL WING A-10D1Roth Lonnie R DRIFTER1
Model families, as a table
aircraft
Dahnke Timothy D LM-1U1
Gilson David R FP-2021
Mccarthy Scott L MITCHELL WING A-10D1
Roth Lonnie R DRIFTER1

Dahnke Timothy D LM-1U · Gilson David R FP-202 · Mccarthy Scott L MITCHELL WING A-10D · Roth Lonnie R DRIFTER

Where they are owner's state

By state, as a table
aircraft
Wisconsin1
Washington1
Pennsylvania1
Florida1

Kind of aircraft

By kind, as a table
aircraftshare
Piston singles375%
Gliders125%

When the aircraft were built by decade

By decade built, as a table
aircraft
19801
19901
20101
20201

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

Where they are
Biggest operators

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/engine/rotax-277.json.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 4

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N28862 Gilson David R
FP-202
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Florida
Experimental 2023-10-19 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N484SM Mccarthy Scott L
MITCHELL WING A-10D
Glider Mid Atlantic Air Museum
Reading, Pennsylvania
Experimental 2014-05-27 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N5614N Dahnke Timothy D
LM-1U
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Wisconsin
Experimental 2007-12-14 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N824JR Roth Lonnie R
DRIFTER
Fixed-wing, single engine Individual owner
Washington
Experimental 2007-08-01 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 30, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.