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Rotax 462

Austrian two-stroke aircraft engine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7370342 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rotax 462 is a 51 hp (38 kW), two-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine, derived from a snowmobile engine. It was built by Rotax of Austria for use in ultralight aircraft.

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“Rotax 462” enters the record as austrian two-stroke aircraft engine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rotax, Austrian and two-stroke can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 30-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rotax, Austrian and two-stroke.
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“Rotax 462” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rotax, Austrian and two-stroke provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7370342. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rotax 462” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.