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PT6 Reaches 60 Years, Pratts Fly a Billion Hours
The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turbine engine was introduced in 1963, and the latest versions are four times more powerful.
Pratt & Whitney PT6 engine model on display at 2018 EBACE
Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engine model on display at 2018 EBACE (Photo: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is celebrating the 60th year of PT6 engine production and the accumulation of one billion hours of flying on its various engine models since the company was formed nearly 100 years ago. More than 64,000 PT6s have been produced since 1963, accumulating more than half the hours flown by all the P&WC engines. The total number of P&WC engines made over the past 100 years is 110,000, of which 66,000 remain in service.

More than 155 different aviation applications are powered by PT6 engines, according to P&WC.

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