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News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

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Sikorsky Powerplant Test Successful

The new Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) PW210S turboshaft engine that will power the Sikorsky S-76D successfully completed its first run on Tuesday, the engin
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Williams-powered Citation Conversion Gets STC

Citation modification specialist Sierra Industries last week received an STC for its Stallion conversion, a Citation 500/501 powered by Williams FJ44-2A tu
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Piper Selects FJ44-3A Version To Power PiperJet

At AOPA Expo yesterday Piper announced it had selected a variant of the Williams International FJ44-3A turbofan to power its new PiperJet.
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10K engines the new hot topic

For the last few years, much of the buzz in the turbine engine world has focused on the new small powerplants from Pratt & Whitney Canada, Williams and the
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Honeywell offers customers new service initiatives

Honeywell jump-started its 2006 NBAA Convention appearance by announcing a series of customer support initiatives as the Orlando gathering began.
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Honeywell puts Zing into TFE731 t-fans

Honeywell plans to introduce a new intelligent engine monitoring network for its engine remote diagnostic service called Zing.
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PW617F Logs Phenom-enal First Flight

Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) has successfully completed the maiden flight of its PW617F engine, selected to power the Embraer Phenom 100 very light jet (VL
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Rolls-Royce sees a need for 51,000 engines by 2025

Continued vigorous growth in business jet deliveries, particularly among midsize and large jets, will generate $70 billion worth of revenue for the engine
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On-wing hot sections for FJ44s

Williams International (Booth No.
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Jet-Care adds P&W, Williams

Jet-Care International (Booth No.
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Honeywell enters 10K thrust zone

On the eve of NBAA 2006, Honeywell made it official that it is developing technology and hardware toward launch of a 10,000-pound-thrust turbofan engine fo
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PW300 series on the agenda at P&WC’s tech session

Pratt & Whitney Canada will present a two-hour session from 1 p.m.
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Rolls-Royce CorporateCare program grows

Rolls-Royce is reporting growth of its CorporateCare power-by-the-hour engine maintenance program, saying that it has signed more than 120 contracts this y
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Snecma’s Silvercrest turbofan family a challenger in 10,000-lb-thrust class

Engine manufacturers are gearing up for development programs aimed at bringing new generations of 10,000-pound-thrust turbofans to business aviation.
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Measuring Aircraft Emissions

NASA has been studying various types of emissions from commercial aircraft to develop ways to reduce emissions and protect the environment.
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New Engine Technology

With fuel prices at noticeably higher levels and Stage 4 noise requirements proposed to take effect next January 1, industry and government are working fur
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Sport-Jet Gets an Engine Change

Colorado-based Excel Jet selected the 1,500-pound-thrust FJ33-4A turbofan for the single-engine Sport-Jet.
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Now More Places To Get GE CF34 Service

All six General Dynamics Service Centers have joined General Electric’s CF34 service center network.
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Another flight ops double flameout

On November 28, a Flight Options Beechjet 400A experienced a double engine flameout at FL380 while on a positioning flight.
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Pratt & Whitney celebrates 80 years

When engine maker Pratt & Whitney opened its first machine shop in a tobacco warehouse in Hartford, Conn., 80 years ago last month, former Wright Aeronauti
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Fault code interrogation of DEEC data for TFE731s

Jet-Care International is offering a diagnostic tool for monitoring the condition of Honeywell TFE731 engines.
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EBACE 2005: Engines

GE Honda Aero Engines, though it has yet to announce an airframe application for its engine, continues to develop its HF118 1,700-pound-thrus
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Honeywell developing new engine technologies

A new powder-metal turbine disk that Honeywell calls Alloy 10 might show up soon in an engine near you, according to Ron Rich, director of advanced technol
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Gulfstream cuts GII and GIII parts prices

Snecma of Chengdu, China (SSAMC), is expanding its repair capability and has added 11 new technicians to its engine overhaul operation.
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Standard Aero gets Canadian Nod for PW100 Hot Sections

Operators of the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 turboprop now have another choice for hot section inspections.
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New Engine Technology

Engine manufacturers are ready to benefit from the hot market for new business aircraft and helicopters in the coming decades.
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BizJet becomes Honeywell TFE731 service center

With more than 15 years’ experience working on the TFE731 engine as an independent FAR 145 Repair Station, BizJet International has recently become a major
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Paris Air Show 2005: This year's show set records for both attendance and number of sales logged

First the good news, or at least the news that most people in the international aerospace and defense industry can agree on.
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Merlin Had Engine Problems Before Crash

The crash landing of the Merlin twin turboprop at Teterboro Airport, N.J., on May 31 followed a flight in which the pilot had aborted his first takeoff at
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GE Honda refines HF118 engine

GE Honda Aero Engines recently completed component and engine core tests to validate several performance enhancements for its in-development 1,700-pound-th
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