Certification Process Slated To Begin Later This Year

Flight testing is continuing on the Rotax 915 iS engine, with 250 actual flight hours logged by the company.

At a news conference at  AERO Friedrichshafen, BRP-Rotax said that they have run the 4-stroke, 4-cylinder turbocharged aircraft engine with intercooler and redundant fuel injection
system for about 10,000 hours on the bench since its maiden flight on March 12, 2016.

Last August, selected Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) received the first Rotax 915 iS prototype engines to be installed into their airplanes. Currently more than 40 Design-Ins are in progress. Some of the OEMs displayed their airplanes, equipped with the newest Rotax development, at AERO Friedrichshafen this week.

The certification process will be started second quarter of 2017. Serial production of the Rotax 915 iS aircraft engine is still on schedule and is planned second half of 2017.

BRP-Rotax says the Rotax 915 iS engine will provide the best power-to-weight ratio in its class and a full takeoff power up to at least 15,000 feet as well as a service ceiling of 23,000 feet and a better fuel efficiency due to the electronic fuel injection system.

The target market for the Rotax 915 iS aircraft engine are high performance 2-seat airplanes, as well as gyrocopters, amphibious airplanes and 4-place twins.

(Images provided with BRP-Rotax news release)

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