Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners, together with joint venture partner Turkish Technic, expect to open a new, high-technology and environmentally efficient CFM56 and V2500 engine overhaul facility in Istanbul in 2009.

Turkish Engine Center (within the context of HABOM project) Ground Breaking Ceremony was realized on July 14,2008 at Sabiha Gokcen International Airport.

Turkish Technic Chairman of the Board Metin Kilci said: “ Engine Center that was found by partnership of Pratt & Whitney will have important position in international market. Our new company will acquire a higher status in world market by means of Pratt Whitney’s engine maintenance and repair network throughout the world. Turkish Engine Center Ground Breaking Ceremony that was realized today, Istanbul will take an important step at the way of being a well known and vital maintenance base in Turkish and international market ”.

The Pratt & Whitney Turkish Technic Aircraft Engine Maintenance Center, LLP, or Turkish Engine Center, is being established to provide engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services to customers located in Turkey, surrounding regions and worldwide. The facility is planned to be comprised of approximately 25,000 sq. meters (269,000 sq. feet) located at the Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in the Anatolian peninsula, approximately 70 km east of Turkish Technic’s existing engine shop at Istanbul Ataturk International Airport. 

Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.  United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified, Fortune 50 company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and building industries.

Turkish Airlines Technic Inc., a subsidiary of Turkish Airlines (ISE: THYAO), is the leading maintenance center in its region, providing MRO services for Boeing and Airbus airframe, engine, auxiliary power units, landing gear and components. Turkish Airlines Technic Inc. serves more than 100 airlines in Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Turkey and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), with its maintenance base in Istanbul and highly qualified workforce of more than 3,000 personnel.