Pratt & Whitney’s association with India started over seven decades ago. Could you mention the latest addition to the list of products and services the company supplied to India?

Pratt & Whitney is part of United Technologies Corp., one of the world’s largest suppliers of aerospace products, with an established presence in India. Offering engine solutions for over seven decades now, Pratt & Whitney has played a significant role in India’s aviation growth story. The company’s product suite includes large commercial engines, military engines, small jet and turboprop engines, and other general, regional and civilian powered flight engines.

With 20 years of research and development, component rig testing on all major modules, extensive ground and flight testing underway, two engines in the family certified and the PW1100G-JM carrying passengers on a daily basis, the Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbofan engine delivers game-changing reductions in:

• Fuel burn
• Environmental emissions
• Engine noise
• Operating costs

With the company aggressively focusing on India, some of the latest additions to our services include:

• Customer Training Centre, Hyderabad – Received certification of its training centre by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation in April 2017 to provide DGCA CAR147-approved training to aircraft engineers and technicians from Pratt & Whitney’s airline customers in the region
• EngineWise service brand — Services designed to provide more predictive and responsive solutions to customers
• PW1100G the newly stationed Geared Turbofan engine at the training centre — designed to meet the aggressive emissions requirements and to run a higher level of cooling technology
• Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) signed a Fleet Man