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

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GE Gears Up for GP7200 Support

General Electric Aircraft Engine Services’ facility at Nantgarw in south Wales is preparing to overhaul and repair the Engine Alliance’s GP7200 powerplant
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CFM takes LEAP into green future

CFM International has launched a new technology development program, LEAP56, that aims to ensure successors to its market-leading CFM56 engines can meet fu
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New P&WC fan picked to power C Series airliner

Pratt & Whitney Canada plans to build a brand-new engine for Bomardier C Series line of single-aisle commercial airliners.
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Europrop tests engine controls for Airbus A400M

Europrop International (EPI) performed the first TP400-D6 engine control and monitoring system (CMS) test in Villaroche late in May, the consortium announc
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P&W adds more test engines to JSF effort

Pratt & Whitney is preparing five more ground-test engines to support seven units already participating in the F135 engine development and demonstration pr
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GNK Now Repairs CFM56-5B Fan Blades

GKN Aerospace has won approval from Snecma Services to repair and overhaul CFM56-5B fan blades.
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P&W seeks PW6000 buyers

Pratt & Whitney is now having to consider what it can contribute to a new powerplant to be developed by its Pratt & Whitney Canada subsidiary for the propo
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AirAsia picks CFM to build A320 engines

Malaysian discount-fare airline AirAsia finally chose an engine type for the 60 Airbus A320s it ordered in two batches last December and in March.
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IAE in talks over next-gen 150-seater

International Aero Engines (IAE) is talking with Airbus and Boeing about a prospective powerplant for a next-generation 150-seat airliner to follow on from
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Engine Alliance Grabs KAL A380 Pact

Korean Air has ordered $300 million worth of GP7200s from the Engine Alliance to power its Airbus A380s.
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Trent 900s for A380 ‘better than spec’

Everything is going very well with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900, which has logged more than 400 engine hours aboard the Airbus A380 since the very large airli
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GEnx orders may swell here

Orders for as many as 250 new General Electric (GE) GEnx engines are expected here at the Paris Air Show this week as the Boeing 787 program gathers pace a
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Engine builders take ‘Vital’ step on environment

European engine manufacturers are joining forces on Vital, a research program co-funded by the European Commission that aims to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Honeywell moves to electronic systems

In an effort to save weight and improve reliability, Honeywell has asked its engineers to develop systems that will replace traditional aircraft hydraulic
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GE, Emirates to test engines here

Two years after signing the deal at the 2003 Dubai airshow, Emirates Airline and General Electric are forging ahead with construction of a huge new engine
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IAE Launches Corporate Engine Maintenance

International Aero Engines has launched a comprehensive upgrade and aftermarket support service for the V2500 engines powering Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJs)
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P&W signs $1.6 billion parts pact with UAL

Pratt & Whitney has signed the biggest airline spare parts management deal in its history, in a $1.6 billion contract with United Airlines.
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GE’s $2.5 Billion Emirates Windfall

General Electric is clearly delighted with the latest Emirates Airline order for 42 Boeing 777s and 20 options as it will supply the GE90 engines to power
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Rolls-Royce plays catch-up in A350 engining battle

Not content to sit back and enjoy its Trent engines successes over the last two years, Rolls-Royce has kicked off its sales campaign to power the new Airbu
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American VLJ to be built for Eastern Europeans

Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing (TAM) has concluded an agreement with Oregon-based Epic Aircraft to license-build the Epic Jet and market it in East Europe.
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New Boeing Narrowbody Gets Engine Upgrade

Boeing’s ability to use the same engine for the 737-900ER as it uses on the standard -900 undoubtedly helped the company justify its investment in the proj
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Toloo-4 turbojet engine enters production

In the quarter century since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has established in-house capability for the development and production of cruise and ball
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OEMs tackle temperature-fuel burn paradox

Never before has commercial air transport come under such scrutiny for its environmental impact.
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GE and P&W prep GP7200 for inaugural flight on Airbus A380

The General Electric/Pratt & Whitney Engine Alliance partnership was last month awarded certification of the GP7200 by the U.S.
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Rolls-Royce tests Boeing 787 engine

Rolls-Royce has completed its first run of its Trent 1000, the engine competing with General Electric’s GEnx to power the Boeing 787.
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Geared Turbofan to Shoulder Pratt’s JT8D Legacy

Pratt & Whitney’s efforts to ensure it takes pole position in the next generation of medium-sized powerplants are materializing, with several major technol
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P&W prepares to powernew single-aisle airliners

Since its rejection from the Boeing 787 engine contest in April 2004 Pratt & Whitney has had to face up to a harsh new reality–that for the foreseeable fut
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CFM-powered A318 ETOPS Approved

Airbus A318s powered by CFM International engines were approved by the EASA for 180-minute extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS).
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Correction: Honeywell Ties P&WC in Survey

AIN’s 2006 Product Support Survey should have shown Honeywell’s support of the TFE731 turbofan receiving an overall average rating of 7.02, a 3.24-p
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Small turbofan makes first run

The 560-pound-thrust DGEN380 turbofan engine recently made its first run in Tarnos, France, start-up company Price Induction announced.