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Engines · turboshaft · data as of October 5, 2026

General Electric CT7-2A

3 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a General Electric CT7-2A engine, rated at about 1625 horsepower. The Bell 214 is the model most often fitted with it (3 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1982 and 1987.

The FAA records engines by code, usually at the level of a series ("O-320 series") rather than the exact variant; this page gathers every FAA code that reads as General Electric CT7-2A. FAA spelling: CT7-2A.

Fitted to model families

Bell 2143

Bell 214

Where they are owner's state

Utah3

Kind of aircraft

Helicopters3 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0122331980

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the General Electric CT7-2A the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E8NE, held by General Electric Company Ge Aviation). The FAA has issued 3 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 83 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 19 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 3 airworthiness directives · newest first

2004-05-112004-07-09 · PGB oil filter impending bypass button (IBB) · engine
2003-04-242003-06-03 · Propeller gearbox (PGB) oil filter · engine
1994-02-0293-25-17 · Gas Generator Turbine (GGT) Disks and Cooling Plates · engine

Failure reports 83 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

036101395031116120

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Ecu7Engine5Nozzle5Bleed Valve4Hmu4Chip Detector3Igniter3Ignitor3Valve3Fuel Control2

Latest reports

2020-04-09Tube: broken
2016-05-12Ecu: faulty
2016-04-20Beam: cracked
2016-02-24Blade: cracked
2016-02-19Stud: sheared

Certificates and bulletins

E8NEType certificate held by General Electric Company Ge Aviation · 30 models listed · revised July 3, 2025

Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.

Connections how this engine series links to the rest of the register

Fitted to
Where they are
  • Utah 3 of these aircraft
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/general-electric-ct7-2a.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 3

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N724HT Bell Helicopter Textron
214ST
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Restricted 2024-07-17 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N214AU Bell
214ST
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Restricted 2022-11-28 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N511EV Bell
214ST
Rotorcraft Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Multiple 2022-09-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (the engine reference table and each aircraft's engine code), October 5, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.