Pratt & Whitney Canada
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Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a division of the larger American Pratt & Whitney (P&W), a business unit of United Technologies. [1] United Technologies has given PWC a world mandate for smaller aircraft engines while P&W's US operations develop and manufacture larger engines.
Although PWC is a division of P&W, it has its own research, development and marketing as well as the manufacturing of its engines. Since the development of its famous PT6 turboprop engine in the 1960s, PWC has dominated its sector of the world market for aircraft engines.
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[edit] History
Pratt & Whitney Canada was founded in 1928 to act as a service centre for P&W engines. During World War II, it assembled Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines built in the U.S. In 1952, the production of Wasp engines was transferred to P&WC so P&W could concentrate on developing jet engines.
In the late 1950s, a team of 12 P&WC engineers began the development of the first small turbine engine in Canada, the PT6. The first example was delivered to a customer in 1963.
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- JT15D
- PT6 Series
- PW100
- PW200 Series
- PW300 Series
- PW500 Series
- PW600 Series
- PW800 Series
- PW900
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