On 13 October 2022, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) type-certified Pratt & Whitney Canada’s new PW127XT-M engine for use on ATR’s popular 42 and 72 series regional turboprop aircraft. Boasting advanced materials and technologies, the new engine series affords operators of ATR’s 42 and 72 aircraft families three-percent improvement in fuel-efficiency, twenty-percent reduction in maintenance costs and forty-percent extended time on wing—with engine overhaul intervals scheduled at twenty-thousand-hours.
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