Farnborough News: Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners Celebrates 300th V2500 Engine Overhaul

July 17, 2006
The Columbus Engine Center inducted its first V2500 engine in 2002 and was quickly named the company's V2500 engine overhaul center of excellence.

LONDON , FARNBOROUGH AIRSHOW, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company, has marked a major milestone with the overhaul of its 300th V2500 engine at its Columbus Engine Center facility in Columbus, GA, USA.

The Columbus Engine Center inducted its first V2500 engine in 2002 and was quickly named the company's V2500 engine overhaul center of excellence. Today, the Columbus Engine Center is North America's leading provider of V2500 engine overhaul.

"We're very proud to reach this important milestone for the company," said Mike Mahonski, general manager of the Pratt & Whitney Columbus Engine Center. "The Columbus Engine Center has the skills and capability to provide the best maintenance for these great engines, and the market is responding. Today we serve customers who are based around the world and we project to grow by 8 to 10 percent each year for the next five years."

The Columbus Engine Center was originally established in 1996 to overhaul JT8D engines. It transitioned to V2500 engine overhaul in 2002 as soon as the V2500 line was established.

Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners has a second V2500 overhaul center in Christchurch, New Zealand.

International Aero Engines, a multinational company in which Pratt & Whitney is a leading shareowner, manages the development and production of the V2500 engine. The IAE V2500 engine powers the Airbus A319, A320 and A321, the Airbus Corporate Jetliner and the Boeing MD-90 aircraft.

Global Service Partners, Pratt & Whitney's maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services business, is an industry leader in customer solutions and service excellence. It has more than 500 aviation customers served by a worldwide network of 24 overhaul and repair facilities capable of servicing all Pratt & Whitney engines, as well as V2500 and CFM56(R) engines.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a diversified companyproviding high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

SOURCE Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners

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