Engine Alliance

Not to be confused with Global Engine Alliance.

The Engine Alliance (EA) is a 50/50 joint venture between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney (a subsidiary of United Technologies) formed in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of modern technology aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range aircraft.^[1]

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-optimised 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.

References

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External links

Official website

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

General Electric

Subsidiaries and
divisions

Current	GE Capital GE Capital Aviation Services GE Commercial Finance GE Energy Financial Services GE Capital Rail Services (Europe) GE Technology Infrastructure GE Aviation GE Aviation Systems GE Healthcare GE Transportation GE Energy GE Digital Energy GE Jenbacher GE Measurement & Control Solutions GE Oil & Gas GE Power GE Wind Energy GE Wind (offshore) GE Home & Business Solutions GE Intelligent Platforms GE Global Research GE Ventures

Former and defunct	Australian Guarantee Corporation¹ Canadian General Electric¹ Compagnia Generale di Elettricità² Electric Bond and Share Company² GE Americom² GE Aerospace² GE Betz¹ GE Capital IT Solutions² GE Consumer & Industrial GECIS² GE Capital Rail Services² GE Equipment Services¹ GE Industrial¹ GE Infrastructure¹ GEIS² Genesis Lease² GE Security² Genworth Financial² Montgomery Ward² Synchrony Financial² Tungsram¹ Whatman¹

Joint ventures and
shareholdings

Current	CFM International (50%) Engine Alliance (50%) GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (60%) GE Honda Aero Engines (50%) Penske Truck Leasing Prolec GE (49.99%) TBS GB

Former	Alco-GE (1940–53) NBC (1926–30, 1986–2004) NBCUniversal, LLC (2004–13)

Products and brands

People

Founders	Charles A. Coffin Thomas Edison Edwin J. Houston Elihu Thomson

Other	James Cash, Jr. Ann Fudge Susan Hockfield Jeffrey R. Immelt Andrea Jung Rochelle Lazarus Sam Nunn Roger Penske Douglas A. Warner III Jack Welch Bob Wright

Places and facilities

Other

¹Now integrated into other GE divisions or business groupings
²Sold or spun off

Category
Commons

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