Pratt & Whitney's Government-engines and space- propulsion division, based in West Palm Beach, Florida, has received a US Air Force contract to build 27 F119 turbofans for the nine flight-test Lockheed F-22s. Deliveries will begin to Lockheed in September 1996 and will be completed by 30 April, 1999, shortly after the scheduled start of manufacture of production-standard engines. P&W now has four ground-test engines in development and will add a fifth to the programme in the second quarter of 1995. Two more will follow in 1996.
Source: Flight International