User:SidewinderX/Sandbox/Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800

The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW800 is a turbofan engine in the 10,000 lbf (45 kN) thrust class. The engine is currently under development by Pratt & Whitney Canada. It was previously known by its company designation, the PW-10X.

Development & Design
The development of the PW800 stretches back to demonstration projects in 1999, soon after the development of the PW600 very light engine and the PW300 business jet engine. The PW800 was originally going to be a geared turbofan, like its larger sibling the PW1000G, but later announcements revealed that it was going to be a more traditional turbofan engine. However, the PW800 would still share a common core with the geared PW100G.

The PW800 core was to be the basis for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW180 turboprop engine proposed for the Airbus A400M, however the Europrop TP400 was selected instead.

In 2008 the PW810 variant was announced as the engine for the Cessna Citation Columbus business jet with an anticipated first flight of 2011. However Cessna canceled the program in 2009, and with that cancelation, Pratt & Whitney announced a suspension in development for the PW800 engine.

Despite this, Pratt & Whitney later announced that core testing was beginning before the end of 2009.

While few details about the design of the engine had been released by the end of 2009, it had been announced that the high pressure core of the engine would feature eight high pressure compressor stages and 2 high pressure turbine stages.

Variants

 * PW810
 * This variant was to power the now-canceled Cessna Citation Columbus. It would have produced 8,830 lbf (39 kN) of thrust.

Applications

 * Cessna Citation Columbus (canceled)