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The Williams FJ33 is an American family of turbofan jet engines intended for use in very light jet aircraft. The FJ33 is a scaled-down version of the FJ44 engine. The FJ33-5A is the latest version certified in June 2016.
The Williams FJ44 is a family of small, two-spool, turbofan engines produced by Williams International for the light business jet market. Until the recent boom in the very light jet market, the FJ44 was one of the smallest turbofans available for civilian applications. Although basically a Williams design, Rolls-Royce was brought into the ...
He left Chrysler to form Williams Research Corporation in Birmingham, Michigan, in 1954. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1981, the company became Williams International . It has been building small turbofan engines since the 1950s for use in cruise missiles as well as target and reconnaissance drones .
The Williams FJ33-5A engine was approved by the FAA on 6 June 2016. [63] Certification was then planned for the end of the same month. [64] By July, the SF50 had over 600 orders, the four flight test aircraft had flown more than 1,700 hours and certification had been delayed to the fourth quarter of the year. [65]
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The D-JET is powered by a single Williams FJ33-4A turbofan engine, which is equipped with an electronically controlled full-authority digital engine control (FADEC) system. [7] Various functions, such as engine startup and over-speed selection prevention, have been automated and are seamlessly performed by the FADEC system.
The retail sales price of the aircraft, which is equipped with Williams FJ-33 engines is supposed to be US-$3.95 million. The aircraft is to be released about 12 months after the bigger S-40 "Freedom". In May 2011 Spectrum president Austin Blue said, "We are still trying to get the programs advancing, but it is not easy".
Epic used the Williams FJ33 engine for testing but planned to switch to the PW600 for final production. The aircraft seats 4 to 5, including the pilots, in a 2+2 or a 2+1+2 configuration. The aircraft took Epic six and a half months to design from concept to a flying prototype, with the first flight on 6 July 2007 from Roberts Field in Redmond ...