In a revival of an old workhorse engine, Pratt & Whitney delivered the first of eight JT8D-219s Thursday, which will replace old Pratt engines in two Air Force surveillance aircraft used in ...

The Northwest Airlines jet that crashed Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after what may have been an engine failure had one of its two engines stop in midflight in 1985 after it took off from ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SINGAPORE AIR SHOW -- Pratt & Whitney's JT8D engine, an icon of aviation history, celebrates 50 years of dependable service this month, making it one of the ...

Although focused on developing new jet engines, Pratt & Whitney Co. has found ways to keep aloft its 1960s-vintage workhorse that powered airliners and warplanes. Pratt announced Monday that federal ...

WASHINGTON — Reacting to three failures of a late-model Pratt & Whitney engine in flight and to damage in other engines of the same type, the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday urged prompt ...

Indonesian investigators are probing a major engine failure suffered by a Boeing 737-200 freighter operated by PT Jayawijaya Dirgantara in December 2021. The aircraft, PK-JRW (MSN 21822), had just ...

Before it even got off the ground, the most successful jet engine ever built by Pratt & Whitney ruined Bob Hylander’s weekend. But both he and the company survived, and in time Pratt sold almost ...

Pratt & Whitney will deliver its first reconfigured JT8D-219 engine, to Northrop Grumman later this month as part of the US Air Force's re-engined E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (Joint ...

The U.S. Air Force wants to re-engine its E-8 Joint-STARS aircraft, but officials are rethinking an earlier plan to award the contract to Pratt & Whitney for its JT8D engines. The company had ...

Vaughn College, a partner school for Delta TechOps, received an engine donation in March to assist students studying to become aviation maintenance technicians (AMTs) with their training. Through ...

Credit: Lindsay Bjerregaard/Aviation Week CHICAGO—Students training to become technicians at the Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM) in Chicago will now have access to a large commercial aircraft ...

Pratt & Whitney will deliver its first reconfigured JT8D-219 engine, to Northrop Grumman later this month as part of the US Air Force's re-engined E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Radar System (Joint ...