Embraer announced that the V2500 commercial turbofan produced by the International Aero Engines (IAE) consortium will power its twin-engine KC-390 tanker/transport now in development. IAE president and CEO Ian Aitken said the choice “substantially opens a market [in which] we have not done business before.” The V2500-E5 engine was competing against the CFM56 for the Embraer KC-390 application.
Since its creation in 1983, IAE has delivered more than 4,500 V2500s to power MD-90s and the Airbus A320 series. Another 2,000 engines are on order, as customers for the Airbus single-aisle series continue to endorse the improvements in design efficiency that IAE has introduced. Aitken suggested that the KC-390 will gain a competitive edge due to engine commonality with the commercial V2500 variants, including “critical upgrades, product enhancements and process improvements.”
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