Engines
IAE Sees V2500 Engine Business Continuing for Decades
The IAE AG partnership, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, expects its V2500 engine family to remain in service beyond 2045.
V2500 engine
The IAE partnership established to manufacture the V2500 family is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the engine. (Photo: Pratt & Whitney)

As it celebrates its 40th anniversary, the International Aero Engines (IAE) partnership established on March 9, 1983, to manufacture the V2500 family of medium to large turbofan engines expects the V2500 to continue generating aftermarket business beyond 2045. That is the year to which the collaboration agreement has so far been extended by IAE partners Pratt & Whitney, Japan Aero Engines Corp., MTU Aero Engines, and Pratt & Whitney Aero Engines International.

The aircraft engine program “is in the prime of its life, where you dream an engine program should be,” said Earl Exum, president of the IAE partnership and v-p of mature commercial engines for Pratt & Whitney. Moreover, he added, it has established an impressive reliability record and will remain in operation for many years to come.