Pratt & Whitney Successfully Completes First CFM56-3 Engine Endurance Test

MRO US, ATLANTA, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company, successfully completed the first engine endurance test with new Pratt & Whitney Global Material Solutions-engineered and manufactured CFM56-3 engine gas path parts. To date, the program has logged more than 300 hours and nearly 1,600 cycles on two Pratt & Whitney owned CFM56-3 engines.

In addition to new Global Material Solutions (GMS) CFM56-3 engine parts, the engine build included new CFMI parts and CFMI-approved repaired parts in both the high pressure turbine and the low pressure turbine modules. GMS' validated CFM56-3 engine parts are on display at Aviation Week's MRO U.S. conference in Atlanta.

"The parts performed flawlessly, verifying their performance within the engine system and their interchangeability with CFMI parts," said Matthew Bromberg, vice president and general manager, Global Material Solutions. "What makes Pratt & Whitney Global Material Solutions unique is that we are not testing our parts in isolation. Each part will be validated in a full engine test along side original OEM parts and repaired parts, so our customers can be certain that P&W's parts are as good as, if not better than, the original OEM's."

P&W is testing all parts in its two validation CFM56-3 engines to ensure they meet the same design and testing standards required in an OEM certification program.

Global Material Solutions, an industry-revolutionizing initiative delivering OEM-quality life-limited and gas-path parts for the CFM56-3 engine at a competitive price, was announced in February 2006.

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 company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and building industries.

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