Pratt & Whitney Canada, also written PWC or P&WC, is a Canadian maker of aircraft engines with its headquarters in Longueuil, Quebec, south of Montreal. It is a division of the American Pratt & Whitney, which is itself a business unit of RTX Corporation, and it was given a world mandate for small and medium aircraft engines while the American operations concentrate on larger ones. Even so, it runs its own research, development and marketing as well as manufacturing. The company began in November 1928 as the Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, a service centre for Pratt & Whitney engines, assembled Wasp series radial engines during the Second World War, and in the late 1950s a small Canadian team began the PT6, its first small turbine engine, which reached its first customer in 1963. It was renamed United Aircraft of Canada in 1962 and took its present name in 1975. Its engine families include the PW300, PW500 and PW800 turbofans.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada JT15D is a small turbofan engine built by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 is a family of turboprop aircraft engines produced by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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Manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada, its first application was in the Bell 212 and UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter family.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT9 is a turboprop aircraft engine under development by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 aircraft engine family is a series of 1,800 to 5,000 shaft horsepower (1,300 to 3,700 kW) turboprops manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 aircraft engine family is a series of 1,800 to 5,000 shaft horsepower (1,300 to 3,700 kW) turboprops manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW200 is a family of turboshaft engines developed specifically for helicopter applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW200 is a family of turboshaft engines developed specifically for helicopter applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 series is a family of turbofan jet engines developed by Pratt & Whitney Canada specifically for business jet applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW500 is a series of medium thrust turbofan engines designed specifically for business jet applications.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW600 series is a family of small turbofan engines developed by Pratt & Whitney Canada producing between 900 to 3,000 lbf (4.0 to 13.3 kN) of thrust and powering the Eclipse 500/550, the Cessna Citation Mustang and the Embraer Phenom 100.
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The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 is a series of turbofan engines in the 10,000–20,000 lbf (44–89 kN) thrust class, manufactured by Pratt & Whitney Canada.
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PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, south of Montreal.
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The Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, Ltd. was founded in November 1928 to act as a service centre for P&W aircraft engines.
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It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of RTX Corporation.
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The company currently has about 10,000 employees worldwide, with 6,000 of them in Canada.
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PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, south of Montreal.
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It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of RTX Corporation.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canada-based aircraft engine manufacturer.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC or P&WC) is a Canada-based aircraft engine manufacturer.
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Companies Founded: James Young, Company page, foundingQuote, Companies Founded: James Young, Company page, founding
James Young founded the business in 1928 as the Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. to service P&W Wasp radial engines.
Satheeshkumar Kumarasingam named president of Pratt & Whitney Canada (RTX)
Companies Led: Satheeshkumar Kumarasingam, News release, appointmentQuote, Companies Led: Satheeshkumar Kumarasingam, News release, appointment
Kumarasingam joined Pratt & Whitney in 1995
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