Pratt & Whitney Completes First PurePower® PW1100G-JM Engine for Airbus A320neo Family of Aircraft
Pratt & Whitney has completed assembly of its first engine to test (FETT) for its PurePower® PW1100G-JM engine – the first engine to power the Airbus A320neo aircraft. Company leadership, Airbus, MTU, JAEC and employees celebrated the program milestone with a Last Bolt Ceremony at Pratt & Whitney's West Palm Beach facility today, where the full engine is scheduled to begin testing soon. The engine, rated at 33,000 pounds of thrust, is the third member of the PurePower PW1000G family of engines to begin testing.
The PW1100G-JM engine test program will run a total of eight test engines over the next 24 months. Test engines will be built both at Pratt & Whitney's West Palm Beach and Middletown facilities. Entry into service is scheduled for October 2015. To date, Pratt & Whitney has firm orders for 1,136 PW1100G-JM engines to power the Airbus A320neo family of aircraft.
The PurePower engine uses an advanced gear system allowing the engine's fan to operate at a different speed than the low-pressure compressor and turbine. The combination of the gear system and an all-new advanced core delivers fuel efficiency and environmental benefits. Pratt & Whitney's PurePower engine family testing recently exceeded 3,700 hours and 11,000 cycles of full engine testing.
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COVERAGE:
- • Pratt & Whitney completes first PW1100G test engine (Flight International)
- • A320neo's First Pratt & Whitney Test Engine Takes Shape (Aviation International News)
- • P&W's NEO engine shows a surprising new face (Aviation Week)
- • PurePower PW1100G-JM readies for tests (Air Transport World)
- • Pratt & Whitney Completes Assembly of First Engine for Airbus A320neo (Aviation Today)
- • First PurePower Engine For Airbus Finished (Hartford Courant)
- • Pratt to test first PurePower for the A320neo (Hartford Business Journal)
