Tag: Engine

Pratt & Whitney Canada Delivers 1,000th PT6A-42A to Piper Aircraft

Pratt & Whitney Canada, a business unit of Pratt & Whitney, announced today that it has shipped the 1,000th PT6A-42A engine from its Lethbridge, Alberta, Centre of Excellence to Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Fla. Piper uses the engine model to power its ever popular, single-engine M500, M...

Rolls-Royce Pearl family continues to grow

Rolls-Royce has officially unveiled the Pearl 10X, the third and most powerful member of its market-leading Pearl engine family for the business aviation market. The engine has been optimised to exclusively power Dassault’s brand-new flagship aircraft, the Falcon 10X, which was revealed durin...

50,000th engine rolls off the Pratt & Whitney Production Line

Pratt & Whitney, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corp. (NYSE: RTX), today announced that the 50,000th PT6 turboprop engine has rolled off the production line achieving an exceptional milestone in General Aviation. With the new PT6 E-Series™ engine now in full production, powering the Pila...

Gulfstream recalls G650ER engines for immediate checks

Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) Gulfstream has called for G650ER operators to comply with a Rolls-Royce service bulletin regarding engine inspections. The request, applying to all aircraft over 24 months old, follows two inflight incidents involving engine shutdowns that occurred within th...

Duncan Aviation appoints assistant manager to its West Coast Rapid Response Team

Duncan Aviation has appointed Shane Heier as the Rapid Response Team's (RRT) new assistant manager for the West Coast, focusing on AOG and scheduled engine calls for the western regions of the US, to support the continuing growth experienced by the company's RRT. Mr Heier joined the RRT East Coas...

Female appointed as marketing manager at Blackhawk Modifications

Blackhawk Modifications Lindsay Allmon, who joined Blackhawk Modifications almost three years ago and has played a key role the Marketing Department, before gradually expanding her role to manager. Donnie Holder, Vice President of Marketing, said: “Lindsay’s dedication and energy are truly tr...

Official: Gulfstream acquires Nordam G500 and G600 Nacelle line

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today announced that it has acquired The NORDAM Group Inc. manufacturing line that produces nacelles for the Gulfstream G500 and Gulfstream G600. Gulfstream had been operating the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based line since early September as part of an agreement with NORDAM to ad...

Duncan Aviation engine test cell in full operation

After months of planning, construction, and rennovation, Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that its new turbofan engine test cell, affectionately named ‘The Raptor,’ has completed all of the necessary correlation runs certified by Honeywell and is fully operational with many Honeywell TFE73...

IBA queries if engine values are ‘artificially’ high

 IBA, an aviation consultancy has updated its current views on engine values, lease rates and maintenance costs alongside market intelligence supported by the IBA.iQ aircraft database. Kane Ray, Head Analyst - Commercial Engines, reflects on the overall stability of the engine market but flags som...

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