whitney canada type division industry aerospace founded november 1928 1928 11 headquarters longueuil quebec canada key people john saabas president products turbine aircraft engines gas turbines number of employees 9 200 1 parent pratt & whitney website www.pwc.ca pratt & whitney canada pwc or p & wc is a canada based aircraft engine manufacturer . pwc s headquarters are in longueuil quebec just outside montreal . it is a division of the larger us based pratt & whitney p & w itself a business unit of united technologies . 2 united technologies has given pwc a world mandate for smaller aircraft engines while p & w s us operations develop and manufacture larger engines . although pwc is a division of p & w it does its own research development and marketing as well as the manufacturing of its engines . the company currently has 9 200 employees worldwide with 6 200 of them in canada . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links history edit the canadian pratt & whitney aircraft company ltd. was founded in november 1928 to act as a service centre for p & w aircraft engines . 3 during world war ii it assembled pratt & whitney wasp series engines built in the u.s. in 1952 the production of wasp engines was transferred to p & wc so p & w could concentrate on developing jet engines . in the late 1950s a team of 12 p & wc engineers began the development of the first small turbine engine in canada the pt6 . the first example was delivered to a customer in 1963 . in 1962 the company was renamed united aircraft of canada uac a unit of united aircraft and assumed its current name in 1975 . 4 in 1963 a total of 41 sikorsky ch 124 sea king originally chss 2 helicopters were delivered to the royal canadian navy . the airframe components were made by sikorsky in connecticut but most were assembled by uac in longueuil quebec . products edit pratt & whitney jt12 initial development then transferred to us pratt & whitney pratt & whitney canada jt15d pratt & whitney canada pt6a b c pratt & whitney canada pt6t pratt & whitney canada pw100 pratt & whitney canada pw200 pratt & whitney canada pw300 pratt & whitney canada pw500 pratt & whitney canada pw600 pratt & whitney canada pw800 pratt & whitney canada pw900 fleet edit as of march 2014 pratt & whitney canada operates the following aircraft as test beds for new engines pratt and whitney canada fleet aircraft in fleet orders notes boeing 747sp 2 0 mcdonnell douglas md 80r 2 0 references edit a b corporate profile fast facts . about p & wc . pratt & whitney canada . retrieved march 31 2013 . pw fast facts page archived june 22 2007 at the wayback machine . leyes p. 433 leyes p. 434 leyes ii richard a. ; william a. fleming 1999 . the history of north american small gas turbine aircraft engines . washington dc smithsonian institution . isbn 1 56347 332 1 . external links edit official website the role of elvie smith jt12 v t e pratt & whitney canada aircraft engines turbojets j60 jt12 turbofans jt15d pw300 pw500 pw600 pw800 turboprops turboshafts pt6 pt6t pw100 pw200 auxiliary power units pw900 see also pratt & whitney aircraft engines v t e pratt & whitney current subsidiaries pratt & whitney canada joint ventures engine alliance international aero engines former subsidiaries pratt & whitney rocketdyne test facilities mirabel aerospace centre people george j. mead frederick rentschler related francis a. pratt pratt & whitney measurement systems solarreserve amos whitney united technologies corporation v t e united technologies subsidiaries pratt & whitney utc aerospace systems utc building and industrial systems predecessors united aircraft united aircraft and transport corporation former subsidiaries clipper windpower 2010 2012 hamilton standard 1929 1999 hamilton sundstrand 1999 2012 otis elevating railway 1892 1918 otis hovair 1985 2014 pratt & whitney rocketdyne 2005 2013 schweizer aircraft 2004 2012 sikorsky aircraft 1929 2015 utc power 1958 2012 vought 1928 1954 people frederick rentschler related pratt & whitney measurement systems solarreserve retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pratt % 26 whitney canada & oldid 742115146 categories pratt & whitney canada aircraft enginesaircraft engine manufacturers of canadacanadian subsidiaries of foreign companiesunited technologies corporationcompanies based in longueuilmanufacturing companies established in 1928technology companies established in 19281928 establishments in quebechidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran aisbahasa indonesiaitalianobasa jawa polskisloven inati ng vi t edit links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 20 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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