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Aussie Firm Picks P&WC PT6A for Modernized Albatross
Amphibian Aerospace Industries has selected the P&WC PT6A-67F engine for its modernized version of the Albatross amphibious twin.
Amphibian Aerospace Industries has selected the 1,700-shp P&WC PT6A-67F turboprop engine for the G-111T, its modernized version of the Grumman Albatross amphibious twin. (Photo: Amphibian Aerospace Industries)
Amphibian Aerospace Industries has selected the 1,700-shp P&WC PT6A-67F turboprop engine for the G-111T, its modernized version of the Grumman Albatross amphibious twin. (Photo: Amphibian Aerospace Industries)

Amphibian Aerospace Industries (AAI) plans to bring the Grumman Albatross amphibious twin back into production and has selected the Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) PT6A-67F turboprop engine for its modernized version, the G-111T. Grumman produced 466 of the amphibious airplanes, powered by two nine-cylinder Wright Cyclone radial engines, between 1949 and 1966. AAI intends to restart production of the modernized G-111T, which will also have a glass cockpit, at its home base in Sydney, Australia,


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