Engines
P&WC has two new bizav powerplants
Pratt & Whitney Canada (Booth No.

Pratt & Whitney Canada (Booth No. 463) now has two major new business aircraft powerplant programs underway, with Bombardier having just selected it to provide the PW308B turbofan for its new Learjet 85 model. Meanwhile, detailed design work has begun for the PW810 engine that will drive Cessna’s new Citation Columbus large cabin aircraft.

The PW307B with 6,100-pound-thrust is a derivative of the PW307A, which already powers Dassault’s Falcon 7X trijet. “Most of the changes are in the external packaging, but the guts of the engine are the same,” said John Saabas, P&WC’s executive vice president for marketing, customer support, engineering and service centers. It will feature innovative new technology such as the first business aviation application of a brushless starter/generator.