Federal Aviation Administration plans order to repair 1,000 Pratt turboprop engines

The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed mandatory inspections of hundreds of Pratt & Whitney’s smaller turboprop engines to check for flaws that include broken turbine blades and perforations in casings that might lead to “uncontained failure,” the agency says.

The repairs could cost nearly $2 million overall for engines in use in the U.S., the FAA says in an advisory published Tuesday. The FAA estimates that its proposed repair order — known as an Airworthiness Directive — involves 1,000 engines on planes registered in the U.S.

The propeller engines are built at Pratt & Whitney Canada, in Longueuil, Quebec. They power a variety of smaller aircraft ranging from general aviation planes made by Beechcraft and Piper, to larger propeller planes built by Bombardier and other manufacturers.

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