Rotax 6 Cylinder Update

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Rotax scraped it's development of a 6 cylinder 225 - 275 HP (approx) turbo & normally aspirated engine. I was told this was due to liability insurance costs in the US market.

The engine was unveiled at OSH a few years ago and it was pretty, a real attention getter. It was a V6 configuration to save space and designed to fit in new and existing certified airframes.

It was to be available for the experimental market 4-5 years after being produced for the certified market.

copied from Rotax
BRP-Rotax shelves its V6 aircraft engines project

Gunskirchen, Austria, November 13, 2006 ? BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG, an Austrian-based company, announces it will not go forward with the commercialization of its V6 aircraft engines but will continue to focus on its existing range of recreational aircraft engines, the 912 and 914 models. However, the company intends to complete the certification tests of the V6 aircraft engine by December 2006.

"We have come a long way with the V6 engine and we are proud of what we have accomplished," said Gerd Ohrnberger, vice-president and general manager, BRP-Rotax. "However, when BRP was sold three years ago, management decided to concentrate the company's core activities on powersports products. Today's announcement will ensure that BRP-Rotax's human and financial resources continue to contribute to our company's mainstream activities and to its growth," he concluded.

An additional engine choice would have been a good thing.