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Engines · piston (reciprocating) · data as of November 2, 2026

Wright R-1820-82

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Wright R-1820-82 engine, rated at about 1525 horsepower. The Grumman S-2 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 Wright R-1820-82. FAA spelling: R-1820-82.

Fitted to model families

Grumman S-21
Model families, as a table
aircraft
Grumman S-21

Grumman S-2

Where they are owner's state

Idaho1
By state, as a table
aircraft
Idaho1

Kind of aircraft

Piston twins1 (100%)
By kind, as a table
aircraftshare
Piston twins1100%

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111950
By decade built, as a table
aircraft
19501

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

Fitted to
Where they are
  • Idaho 1 of these aircraft
Biggest operators
Analytics

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/engine/wright-r-1820-82.json.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N8115M Grumman
S2F-1
 Fixed-wing, multi-engine Legacy Flight Museum
Rexburg, Idaho
 Experimental 2013-11-20 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.