BUSINESS AVIATION
14 MAY 2016 AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY
WHEN YOU HARNESS A SINGLE POWERPLANT TO
the nose of a brand-new airframe, that engine better
be reliable. In this case the engine is GE Aviation's
new advanced turboprop (ATP) and the airframe
is Textron Aviation's new single-engine turboprop,
or SETP.
The move marks GE's most ambitious foray yet into
the business and general aviation arena. "ATP has
a number of unique features that have never been
seen before in this market segment," asserts Brad
Mottier, vice president of GE Aviation's Business and
General Aviation and Integrated Systems business.
GE Aviation says those features result in:
• a 16:1 overall pressure ratio;
• 20 percent lower fuel burn compared to the com-
petition;
GE'S ADVANCED TURBOPROP
IS THE SUM OF ITS PARTS —
AND THEN SOME
The package may be new, but the constituent
parts of that package are not. The ATP's
aerodynamics borrow on more than 150
million hours of field use in commercial
powerplants.
By Jerome Greer Chandler
THE CURRENT GE
facility in the Czech
Republic that builds
the H Series turbo-
prop. A new facility
will be built to pro-
duce the ATP.
GE AVIATION