Pratt & Whitney team brings PW600 series to three light jets
Building a new engine is a huge gamble, but if the timing is right the payoff can be enormous.

Building a new engine is a huge gamble, but if the timing is right the payoff can be enormous. For Pratt & Whitney Canada, offering the PW600 series to aircraft manufacturers in the early 2000s turned out to be a smart move. Three manufacturers chose the PW600 for their respective very light jet programs–the Cessna Mustang (PW615F), Eclipse 500 (PW610F) and Embraer Phenom 100 (PW617F).

The engine was originally launched as the 2,500-pound-thrust PW625 in 2000, but P&WC clearly saw a market developing for a line of 600- to 3,000-pound thrust engines. The engine first flew on P&WC’s Boeing 720 testbed in 2002.

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