Engine Alliance
| Joint venture | |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | East Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
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Key people
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Dean Athans (President) Mike Zapatka (CFO) |
| Products | Aircraft engines |
| Owners |
Pratt & Whitney GE Aviation |
| Website | www |
The Engine Alliance (EA) is an American aircraft engine manufacturer based in East Hartford, Connecticut. The company is a 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies. Engine Alliance was established in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of modern technology aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range aircraft.
The main application for such an engine, the GP7200, was originally the Boeing 747-500/600X projects, before these were cancelled due to lack of demand from airlines.
Instead, the GP7000 has been re-optimized for use on the Airbus A380 superjumbo. In that market it is competing with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900, the launch engine for the aircraft. The two variants are the GP7270 and the GP7277.
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