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News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.
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Walter Engine Mod Under Way for Caravan
AOG Air Support of Kelowna, B.C., Canada is undertaking a program to convert Cessna 208 Caravans from their original 675-shp P&WC PT6 to the 751-shp Walter
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TDG Aero intros fault-interuption device
TDG Aerospace has introduced the Universal Fault Interrupter (UFI 3000), designed to prevent ignition sources resulting from arcing events in aircraft elec
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Teal: 41,000 turbofans to be built by 2013
Teal Group announced the results of its market analysis for the turbofan industry, predicting a total of 40,989 turbofan engines will be built in the 10 ye
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Signs of life begin to emerge at moribund Dornier factory
The empty hangars at Oberpfaffenhofen airfield outside Munich reflect a stark impression of the decline Germany’s aerospace industry has experienced over t
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Filtering out the noise surrounding Stage 4
At its triennial meeting in Montreal in early October, the ICAO Assembly–which includes representatives from all 187 ICAO member nations–approved a more fl
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Challenger owner sues over engine anomalies
How many in-flight engine shutdowns have you had in your career? For the crew of a General Electric CF34-powered Challenger 604 owned by David Wetherell, t
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Enigmatic D’Long in race to fund flight of relaunched 728
When China’s D’Long Group announced last year it would buy the Fairchild Dornier 728 development program from bankruptcy administrators, many questioned th
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First Flight in Flux of Williams-powered Learjet
First flight of a Williams FJ44-2C-powered Learjet 25D continues to be a moving target as Guthrie, Okla.-based Spirit Wing awaits delivery of the engine na
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GE, Honeywell Formally Cancel Merger Pact
General Electric and Honeywell International formally terminated their merger agreement, four months after European regulators rejected the proposed $45 bi
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FJ44-powered Learjet Program Progressing Slowly
After some 100 flights, Spirit Wing Aviation of Guthrie, Okla., has completed development testing of its Williams FJ44-powered Learjet 25D and expected to
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Certified GII/III hush kits finally near end of tunnel
While three companies are competing to market FAR Part 36 Stage 3 hush kits for the Gulfstream II, IIB and III, two–Really Quiet and Stage III Technologies
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Eclipse 500 Engine Preps for First Flight in August
Pratt & Whitney Canada is starting its second month of ground runs of the PW610F, the smallest of the company’s new PW600-series engines and the powerp
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Cessna launches Mustang engine flight-testing
Flight testing of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW615F–the engine Cessna selected for the Citation Mustang–got under way in Wichita on April 27.
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P&WC hastens support for new engines
Pratt & Whitney Canada is seeing its engines enter service on three new business airplanes this year–the Dassault Falcon 7X, Cessna Mustang and Eclipse
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Phenom 300 Engine at Full Power
Pratt & Whitney Canada’s new PW535E turbofan engine for the Embraer Phenom 300 has reached its full takeoff thrust of 3,360 pounds at the company’s Lon
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Standard Aero expands with TSS Aviation buy
In a bid to expand its capabilities to service larger turbine engines, Standard Aero has purchased turbine engine component overhauler TSS Aviation of Cinc
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Newest P&WC PT6A receives Canadian TC
Transport Canada has granted type certification for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P that will supersede the PT6A-67B on the Pilatus PC-12 production li
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Mover & Shakers: Ian Aitken
Having won the contract to supply new technology turbofan engines for the Dassault SMS, an emerging super-midsize business jet design from the French ma
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Rolls-Royce eyes additional 10K prizes
Rolls-Royce earlier this year was the surprise winner in the competition to power a new super-midsize business twinjet from Dassault with engines producing
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Work continues apace on Honeywell’s HTF10000
When Honeywell announced at last year’s NBAA Convention in Orlando its intention to build the HTF10000, a 10,000-pound-thrust turbofan engine for super-mid
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ICG introduces improved phone handset
Aeronautical communications systems provider International Communications Group (Booth No.
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Snecma sets aside $100M for Silvercrest research
Despite having lost out to Rolls-Royce in the competition to power Dassault’s still-under-wraps super-midsize Falcon, Snecma is moving ahead with developme
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Snecma moves on after loss of super-midsize competition
Jean-Pierre Cojean, Snecma executive vice president of commercial engines and head of the Silvercrest engine program, said the engine-maker was disappointe
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P&WC boss sees opportunity across entire maket spectrum
When NBAA Convention News spoke with Alain Bellemare, Pratt & Whitney Canada president, and John Saabas, senior v-p, earlier this month, Bellemare reported
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GE turns its attention back to the small-engine market
For General Electric, the 50/50 partnership with Honda to produce and market the HF120 turbofan is a return to GE’s roots in the small-turbine-engine marke
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Snecma Polishing Silvercrest for NBAA
Snecma plans to unveil a mock-up of its 9,500- to 12,000-pound-thrust Silvercrest engine, as well as divulge more details about the project, at the NBAA Co
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Turbine Engine Certification Changes Finalized
The FAA has issued two new final rule amendments covering FAR Part 33 turbine engine certification standards.
