Editing Engine Alliance

{{Short description|American aircraft engine manufacturer}}
{{distinguish|Global Engine Alliance}}
{{primary sources|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Engine Alliance, LLC
| logo = Engine Alliance logo.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert
| type = [[Joint venture]]
| industry = [[Aerospace]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|1996|08}}
| location_city = [[East Hartford, Connecticut]]
| location_country = United States
| key_people = Dean Athans (president)<br/>Mike Zapatka (CFO)<ref name="ea_bloomberg"/>
| products = [[Jet engine|Aircraft engines]]
| owners = [[Pratt & Whitney]] (50%)<br/>[[GE Aerospace]] (50%)
| homepage = {{Official URL}}
}}

The '''Engine Alliance''' ('''EA''') is an American [[aircraft engine]] manufacturer based in [[East Hartford, Connecticut]].<ref name="ea_bloomberg">{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/Research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=7917458 |title=Engine Alliance, LLC: Private Company Information |publisher=Bloomberg |access-date=24 June 2016}}</ref> The company is a 50/50 joint venture between [[GE Aerospace]] and [[Pratt & Whitney]],<ref name="ea_bloomberg"/> a subsidiary of [[RTX Corporation|RTX]]. Engine Alliance was established in August 1996 to develop, manufacture, sell, and support a family of aircraft engines for new high-capacity, long-range [[aircraft]].<ref name="ea">[http://www.enginealliance.com/en/about/default.aspx About Us | Engine Alliance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314175424/http://www.enginealliance.com/en/about/default.aspx |date=2012-03-14 }}</ref>

The main application for such an engine, the GP7100, was originally for the [[Boeing 747]]-500/600X projects, before these were cancelled due to lack of demand from [[airlines]].

Instead, the [[Engine_Alliance_GP7000|GP7000]] has been re-optimized for use on the [[Airbus A380]] superjumbo. In that market it competed with the [[Rolls-Royce Trent 900]], the launch engine for the aircraft. The two EA variants are the GP7270 and the GP7277.

On September 30, 2017, an [[Engine Alliance GP7000#Notable Incidents|Engine Alliance GP7270]] engine suffered from an uncontained failure during the passenger flight of [[Air France Flight 66]].<ref>[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11928312 Air France plane loses engine cover above the Atlantic Ocean, New Zealand Herald, October 1 2017.]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/plane-engine-explodes.html Engine Explodes on an Air France Plane, Forcing an Emergency Landing. New York Times, September 30, 2017.]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.enginealliance.com}}

{{Pratt & Whitney}}
{{General Electric}}

[[Category:Aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States]]
[[Category:General Electric subsidiaries]]
[[Category:Joint ventures]]
[[Category:Multinational aircraft engine manufacturers]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1996]]
[[Category:Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines]]
[[Category:Manufacturing companies based in Connecticut]]
[[Category:Companies based in Hartford County, Connecticut]]
[[Category:East Hartford, Connecticut]]