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Pratt & Whitney Awarded Engine Contract For C-17s Leased To United Kingdom

EAST HARTFORD, CT, September 19, 2000—Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Company to supply 16 F117 turbofan engines for four C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft being leased to the United Kingdom.

Included in the sale to Britain will be one additional spare P&W F117 engine, spare parts, support equipment, modification kits, and technical, logistics and training support. The engines will be maintained by Pratt & Whitney under a multi-year C-17 engine maintenance contract announced yesterday.

"We are gratified and immensely proud to be powering the C-17s being leased by the United Kingdom. We are confident the U.K. government will benefit from the outstanding airlift capability of the C-17," said Steve Finger, President, P&W Military Engines.

The aircraft are scheduled for delivery to the Royal Air Force by September 2001; engine deliveries to Boeing will begin soon. To meet this aggressive delivery schedule, F117 production will be increased and the U.S. Air Force engine delivery schedule will be adjusted to assure that engine deliveries to the U.S. Air Force will not be affected by the U.K. C-17 deliveries.

While the aircraft are being provided as a direct commercial lease from Boeing, the British C-17s will be supported through foreign military sales contracts with the U.S. Air Force.

The C-17 cargo airplane is powered by four F117-PW-100 turbofan engines and is capable of carrying heavy outsized cargo intercontinental distances. The U.S. Air Force C-17 fleet, home based at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and McChord Air Force Base, Wash., has more than 200,000 flight hours since first flight in 1991. The U.S. Air Force currently has 120 C-17s on order, with 64 already delivered. P&W is currently under contract to the U.S. Air Force to provide F117 engines for all 120 C-17s.

Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.

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