Engines

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

Aircraft

Safran To Pay Dassault $280M in Silvercrest Settlement

Dassault canceled the Falcon 5X program in December and scrapped its contract with Safran over troubled Silvercrest turbofan that was to power the jet.
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Engines

P&WC Reveals Latin American Bizav Market Expectation

The engine-maker expects to see annual aircraft deliveries double in the region by 2027.
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Engines

Brazilian Business is Bouncing Back, Says Dallas Airmotive

Dallas Airmotive's Brazil-based offers high-quality engine MRO services. In 208 it has seen business recovering from the 2015 low
Engines

Pratt & Whitney Selects Helipark as Designated Maintenance Facility

Helipark is P&WC's newest designated maintenance facility
Engines

Safran Sees Latin American Helicopter Market Recovering

VIP and parapublic sectors are showing signs of life, while oil-and-gas segment is slow to return.
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Airlines

IndiGo, GoAir Ground More A320neos

Pratt & Whitney PW11000G combustors again the culprit
Engines

Phillips 66 Teams With Afton on Unleaded Avgas

UL100 avgas contains no lead and so far is proving effective for anti-detonation properties in high-compression piston aero engines.
Engines

Nordam's U.S. Divisions File for Ch. 11 Reorganization

Nordam says move is result of contractual dispute with Pratt & Whitney Canada; P&WC says it offered Nordam assistance to prevent bankruptcy filing.
Aircraft

SyberJet To Fly SJ30i with New Avionics in Coming Weeks

The SJ30i, which will also have new interior designs, is expected to enter service in mid- to late-2019, SyberJet said.
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Engines

Safran's Poland Factory Ramps Up Blade Production

The Poland plant is expected to turn out 180,000 Leap blades this year.
Aircraft

Meggitt Invests To Meet Growing Aerospace Demand

To keep pace with OEMs' planned production increases, Meggitt is expanding production and design facilities around the world.
Engines

Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Mars Otherwise Good Year

With more Trent 1000 engine troubles and deeper cost-cutting the engine maker is having a rough year
Aircraft

Derwent Dual-drive Booster Could Halve NOx Emissions

A group of former Rolls-Royce engineers has a new engine architecture that will save fuel and cut NOx.
Aircraft

Rolls-Royce Submits UltraFan Engine for Boeing's NMA

Rolls-Royce has proposed its UltraFan engine, which is still in development.
Engines

P&WC Expands Oshkosh Education Sessions

The engine maker for the first time will hold aircraft model-specific information sessions at AirVenture
Engines

NSC Testing Center Gains Momentum

New vibration and environmental testing center has added an important capability to the UK aerospace industry.
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Engines

CFM Fixes Leap Turbine Shroud Coatings

CFM began delivering new Leap engines with the permanent CMC environmental-barrier coating fix in June.
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Engines

Supply Chains Ready for Nexcelle Nacelle Production Ramps

Nexcelle has required supplier production contracts in place to support nacelle-production ramps for Bombardier Global 7500 and Comac C919.
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Aircraft

GE Wins $437M Adaptive Cycle Engine Contract

Modification of prior U.S. Air Force agreement lets GE continue work on Next Gen powerplants for air superiority applications
Aircraft

Aerospace Revenues Climb On Higher Defense Spending

While aerospace and defense growth is lagging world economic growth, U.S. defense industry revenue has increased to 2.5 times that of Europe.
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Engines

GE Wrestles with Business Case for Mid-market Aircraft

CFM proposal put to Boeing despite 52,000-pound maximum thrust requirement set by GE/Safran partnership.
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Engines

Trent XWB Reaches 500th Engine Milestone, Two Million Hours

Rolls-Royce says 500 Trent XWB production engines have now been shipped.
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Aircraft

Digitalization, Big Data Driving Advances at Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney and parent United Technologies are embracing new technologies to keep pace with airplane makers' plans to speed up production.
Engines

Rolls-Royce Selects Circor for New TP400 Engine Valve

Circor will provide a new vent ejector valve for the TP400 engines that power the A400M military transport.
Engines

GKN Set To Add Engine Component Repair Shop in Malaysia

GKN Aerospace is to build a sixth facility in Asia, which will be its first to support its engine components business in the region.
Aircraft

GE Aviation Turns To the Cloud for Predictive Mx

GE Aviation's and Microsoft's collaboration will accelerate digitization in aerospace, says GE
Engines

Trent 7000 Should Enter Service with 330-Minute ETOPS

Rolls-Royce to complete 3,000-cycle Trent 7000 330-minute ETOPS ground-test program by early August.
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Rolls-Royce UltraFan Design Frozen

Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan demonstrator project reaches a major milestone.
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Aircraft

CPI Aero Helps Give HondaJet Elite Pax a Quieter Ride

CPI Aerostructures wins long-term contract to supply noise muffling engine inlets on Honda Aircraft's upgraded business jet
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Engines

Pratt & Whitney Outlines Program Developments

Top announcement involves ETOPS approval for its PW1500G geared turbofan.