A jet engine assembled in Middletown through a collaboration of Pratt & Whitney Co. of East Hartford and General Electric Co. of Fairfield has reached 100,000 hours of trouble-free flight, the companies said.
Their Engine Alliance GP7200 engine has not experienced a single in-flight shutdown since entering service aboard eight Airbus A380 aircraft operated by various overseas air carriers since August 2008.
“We’re very pleased with the engine’s performance and reliability in service,” Engine Alliance President Mary Ellen Jones said. Â “It’s the result of continuously testing these engines under extreme conditions to expose potential issues and resolve them before they can become problems.”
The Engine Alliance is a 50/50 joint venture of Pratt and GE.
GE makes the engine’s high pressure compressor, combustor and high pressure turbine, while Pratt manufactures the fan module, low pressure compressor and low pressure turbine.
Final engine assembly is done at Pratt’s Middletown engine center.
