Pratt & Whitney Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canada-based aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, south of Montreal. It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of RTX Corporation. United Technologies had given PWC a world mandate for small and medium aircraft engines, while P&W's US operations develop and manufacture larger engines. Although PWC is a division of P&W, it does its own research, development and marketing as well as the manufacturing of its engines. The company currently has about 10,000 employees worldwide, with 6,000 of them in Canada.
Key facts
Where it builds · 2
Longueuil (Quebec), Canada
Component or engine plant
PW100, PW150, PT6
The engine of almost every regional turboprop in the world
Montreal, Canada
Component or engine plant
Ensayos
Testing
Every plant is checked against the company’s own website — or that of whoever inherited its history — and placed in its town. A green dot is a working plant; an amber one has closed.
The story
The Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, Ltd. was founded in November 1928 to act as a service centre for P&W aircraft engines. During World War II, it assembled Pratt & Whitney Wasp series engines built in the U.S. In 1952, the production of Wasp engines was transferred to Canadian Pratt & Whitney so P&W could concentrate on developing jet engines.
In the late 1950s, a team of 12 Canadian Pratt & Whitney engineers began the development of the first small turbine engine in Canada, the PT6. The first example was delivered to a customer in 1963. In 1962, the company was renamed United Aircraft of Canada (UAC), and assumed its current name in 1975. In 1963 a total of 41 Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King (originally CHSS-2) helicopters were delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy. The airframe components were made in Connecticut by another United Aircraft subsidiary, Sikorsky, but most of the aircraft were assembled by UAC in Longueuil, Quebec.
Its 100,000th engine was produced in May 2017, its fleet logged 730 million flight hours and 60,000 in-service engines are operated by 12,300 customers in more than 200 countries.
Its engines
The engine families of its own that power aircraft in the encyclopedia.
What it powers
The aircraft families in the encyclopedia that fly on its engines.
Who flies them
The airlines with the most of its aircraft in our documented fleet; this is not a ranking of its order book.
Identity, founding and headquarters from Wikidata; the narrative from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Plants checked one by one on each company’s own website. Counts are of our documented fleet.
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