Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 is a turboprop aircraft engine produced by Pratt & Whitney Canada.Its design was started in 1958, it first ran in February 1960, first flew on 30 May 1961, entered service in 1964, and has been continuously updated since.
Congress only approved the purchase when it was assured that a U.S. source would be found for the PT6T engines. This source was Pratt & Whitney Engine Services in Bridgeport, West Virginia, which was established in 1971 to assemble and test new T400-WV-402 engines. As a result, the U.S. military ordered 294 Bell 212s under the designation UH-1N ...
The aircraft was powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6, and in July 1961, was the first aircraft to have been powered solely by a PT6 engine. The Ten99 was developed for a United States Navy Assault Support Helicopter program.
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canada-based aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil , Quebec , just outside Montreal . It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of RTX Corporation . [ 2 ]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6; Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6T; Pratt & Whitney ...
Using 13 surplus de Havilland Herons airframes, Saunders designed the conversion and utilized some engineering input from Aviation Traders (Engineering).The remanufactured design was based on a stretched fuselage to accommodate 23 passengers, a lengthened nose to fit radar, reshaped vertical tail (also increased in size) and two Pratt and Whitney PT6A turboprops replacing the original four ...
Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies , announced Thursday that it has begun construction of a new manufacturing facility in Singapore. Once completed, the plant will construct fan ...
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pratt_%26_Whitney_Canada_PT6A&oldid=529159553"