MRO NEWS: Pratt & Whitney Completes Successful CFM56 Performance Test

MRO PHOENIX 2006, PHOENIX , April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pratt & Whitney Global Material Solutions, a United Technologies Corp. company (NYSE: UTX), recently completed a successful performance test of the CFM56-3 engine. The test, which will feed Pratt & Whitney's lifing analysis model, is another step toward certification and delivery of Pratt & Whitney Global Material Solution's new offering -- new materials for the CFM56-3 engine.

"Our most recent CFM56-3 performance test went very well, and GMS remains on schedule for first part deliveries in early 2007," said Matthew Bromberg, Vice President & General Manager of Global Material Solutions. "We collected new data that will feed our analysis model as we work toward our certified lifing system for the CFM56-3."

Global Material Solutions, an industry-revolutionizing initiative delivering OEM-quality life-limited and gas-path parts for the CFM56 engine at a competitive price, was announced earlier this year. The new business' first customer is United Airlines.

"The recent engine performance test, the fourth in a series of six, was used to collect comprehensive temperature and pressure data across the engine," said Jim Pennito, Program Director for Global Material Solutions. "Engine performance tests enable us to understand the operating parameters of the engine in all conditions at each stage of operation. The data is then entered into our CFM56-3 lifing analysis system, which will be used to re-engineer and certify new life limited parts for the CFM56-3."

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., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

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