Aircraft
Safran/Honeywell EGTS System Delayed Two Years
Entry into service now expected in 2018
The EGTS enables crews to taxi without starting the airplane’s engines.
The EGTS enables crews to taxi without starting the airplane’s engines.

Safran and Honeywell have delayed by two years the planned entry into service of their electric green taxiing system (EGTS), a device designed to enable an airplane to taxi with its engines shut down. On May 28, AIN saw the Airbus A320 aircraft that the EGTS International joint venture had used as a testbed without its engines near Air France Industries' maintenance facility at Toulouse Airport in France.