Engine Alliance

Not to be confused with Global Engine Alliance.
Engine Alliance, LLC
Joint venture
Industry Aerospace
Founded 1996
Headquarters East Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Key people
Dean Athans, President
Mike Zapatka, CFO[1]
Products Aircraft engines
Owners Pratt & Whitney
GE Aviation
Website www.enginealliance.com

The Engine Alliance (EA) is an American aircraft engine manufacturer based in East Hartford, Connecticut.[1] The company is a 50/50 joint venture between GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney,[1] 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.[2]

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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