Pratt & Whitney

December 8, 2025 - Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC), ... manufactures engines for auxiliary power units and industrial applications. Its headquarters are located in Longueuil, Quebec (just outside Montreal)....

August 18, 2025 - 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 ...

The company gained a leading position in the piston-driven aircraft engine market during the 1930s and made the transition to jet engines during the early 1950s. Today Pratt & Whitney manufactures only jet engines, while smaller engines and those for propeller aircraft are built by its Canadian sister company, Pratt & Whitney Canada.

Pratt & Whitney employees work on a PW1100G-JM engine at the Middletown Engine Center in Connecticut.

Pratt & Whitney Canada was originally established and founded as a service center for its parent company's aircraft engines. However, the production of Wasp engines was transferred to Pratt & Whitney Canada when the founding entity shifted focus to develop jet engines.Learn more about our achievements

Pratt & Whitney’s North Berwick Aero Systems facility produces world-class modules, components, and parts for commercial and military engines. The plant is more than 1 million square feet, and is the largest manufacturing facility under one ...

This plant, isolated on a remote stretch of the Connecticut River, is one of the major aircraft engine plants in the nation. It was established initially as a secretive federal jet engine test facility in 1957, and was officially transferred to Pratt and Whitney in 1966.

The company’s Asheville facility, first announced in October 2020, produces high-tech turbine airfoils, an important component in aircraft jet engines. The company’s new project will expand its production capacity to meet growing customer demand. “Pratt & Whitney’s continued investment ...

October 2, 2024 - Pratt & Whitney, an RTX subsidiary, has opened its largest military engine manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City, according to a company statement issued on 1 October 2024. Boasting 845,000 square feet, the $255m investment will allow the ...

October 24, 2024 - Rentschler, a former Navy lieutenant convinced that “the best airplane could only be designed around the best engine,” as historian Mark P. Sullivan notes, suggested to the Navy that he could meet their standard for a 400-horsepower engine weighing 650 pounds or less—a feat that other manufacturers considered beyond their reach. With encouragement from the Navy, Rentschler assembled a design team and looked for investment capital and a place to set up shop. A graduate of Princeton University, Rentschler came from an industrious Midwest family with social connections, and through his banker brother soon learned that the Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool Company of Hartford, with its long history as a manufacturer of precision tools, had both capital to invest and extra factory space.

With more than 13,000 large commercial ... today, Pratt & Whitney provides dependable power to hundreds of airlines and operators every day. RTX has improved engine fuel efficiency by 70% since the dawn of the jet age, and our innovations in powerplant design continue to set the pace for progress in aviation. Our technologies have made aviation ever-more ...

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Nov. 16, 2022 – With the majority of exterior construction complete, Pratt & Whitney’s state-of-the-art turbine airfoil production facility in Asheville, N.C., is expected to achieve initial operational capability ...

As the 55th Paris International Airshow welcomes visitors from across global aviation, it coincides with one of the industry’s most iconic names celebrating its 100th anniversary. Pratt & Whitney has been at the forefront of aircraft engine advances, a tradition that it continues to this day.

June 28, 2023 - The aviation parts manufacturer is expanding its Columbus, Georgia production site to increase manufacturing capacity for its signature engine. Courtesy of RTX. ... This audio is auto-generated.

February 7, 2025 - Watch a video of the 20,000th Lethbridge-built Pratt & Whitney engine being started for the first time in Air Tractor AT-602-1308. Inside Titan: A look at Europe’s leading Aerial Firefighting Training AcademySeptember 3, 2025 · Congressman Roger Williams visits Air Tractor factory and employeesAugust 29, 2025

The Columbus, Ga., MRO center for commercial and military engines is in line for a $206-million machinery update and capacity expansion. ... Turbine engine profiles. Pratt & Whitney initiated a $206-million capital investment program for new ...

Pratt & Whitney's Singapore manufacturing facility achieved full operational capability in June 2023, and plays a key role in the company's production of critical components for the GTF™ engine family.

February 7, 2023 - Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, Conn., reports that its first production PurePower PW1500G engines will also be the first jet engines to include entry-into-service parts produced via additive manufacturing. The engines, which will be delivered to Bombardier this year, will include compressor ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, anRTX business (NYSE: RTX), celebrated the opening of its new 845,000-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, solidifying its position as the business's largest military engines field location.