Aircraft
Embraer Expects Fully Compliant GTFs for E2s by Year-End
Pratt commits to fitting final combustor configuration in all engines before 2019
Perhaps the best nose art at the Singapore Airshow is on this Embraer E190-E2 regional jet. Photo: Mark Wagner
Perhaps the best nose art at the Singapore Airshow is on this Embraer E190-E2 regional jet. Photo: Mark Wagner

As Embraer (Stand V01, Chalet CD31) awaits certification of the E190-E2 on static display here, Pratt & Whitney remains hard at work addressing the last of the teething troubles associated with the PW1000G geared turbofan family at the heart of the performance gains the Brazilian airframer expects to realize. Briefing reporters on Sunday on show grounds, Embraer Commercial Aircraft vice president of marketing Rodrigo Silva e Souza reported that “a few” of the E2s slated for delivery this year will carry GTFs fitted with early-wear combustor liners known as configuration B, but that by the end of the year all E2s will carry engines with longer-wear configuration C combustors. He added that Pratt & Whitney will retrofit the new combustors onto all the airplanes originally fitted with configuration B by year-end as well.


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