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 JT8D-Standard engine family covers a thrust range from 14,000 to 17,000 pounds. The newer JT8D-200 engine family offers 18,500 to 21,700 pounds of thrust and is the exclusive power for the ...

But that was not always the case: in earlier decades, noise reduction was not a priority, and many jets of that era became ...

The first JT8D-219 motors are due for delivery in February to aircraft builder Northrup Grumman to re-engine the Air Force’s E-8C JSTARS version of the 707 used for aerial-attack surveillance ...

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 ...

"As a result we are facing an accelerated sunset of the JT8D product," he says. Prior to 11 Spetember, P&W was planning to overhaul 250 engines per year at its maintenance shops, but has revised ...

The most important engine that CFM International has produced is called the CFM56. This aircraft has shaped modern aviation ...

The donated engine is a JT8D, an engine that is considered highly durable and reliable having completed more than 673 million dependable flying hours since entering service. Today, there are 2,400 ...

The JT8D-219 engine is assembled and tested in Pratt & Whitney's Middletown, Conn., facility. The current commercial JT8D-219 engine with external modifications has been certified to support B707 ...

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.

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 ...