Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28
13 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 engine, rated at about 680 horsepower. The Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain is the model most often fitted with it (5 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1970 and 1980.
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 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 (2 codes). FAA spellings: PT6A-28 · PT6A-28.
Fitted to model families
Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain · Beechcraft E-90 King Air E90 · Beechcraft A100 · Beechcraft 65 · Pelegrin Northwest Llc LANCAIR EVOLUTION
Where they are owner's state
Kind of aircraft
When the aircraft were built by decade
What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 the component layer
The design is held under 1 type certificate (E4EA, held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP.). The FAA has issued 11 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series.
FAA orders 11 airworthiness directives · newest first
Certificates and bulletins
Safety bulletins 1 · advice, not orders
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
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 5 with this engine series
- Beechcraft E-90 King Air E90 4 with this engine series
- Beechcraft A100 2 with this engine series
- Beechcraft 65 1 with this engine series
- Delaware 3 of these aircraft
- Oklahoma 2 of these aircraft
- New Mexico 2 of these aircraft
- Virginia 1 of these aircraft
- Oregon 1 of these aircraft
- Win Win Aviation INC 1 of these aircraft
- Tj Air Holdings INC Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- Pierwest Aviation LLC 1 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 11 airworthiness directives
These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-28.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 13
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N294ZP | Piper PA-31T |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Cumulus Aviation INC Trustee Wilmington, Delaware |
Standard | 2026-08-14 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N406RS | Piper PA-31T |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Aero South Florida INC Deerfield Beach, Florida |
Standard | 2025-03-05 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N111JA | Beech E-90 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Millennium Falcon 2020 LLC Trustee Wilmington, Delaware |
Standard | 2023-12-18 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N29M | Beech E-90 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bluesky Geospatial LTD North Adams, Massachusetts |
Standard | 2021-08-27 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N444L | Beech E-90 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Pierwest Aviation LLC Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Standard | 2021-02-17 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N503AL | Pelegrin Northwest Llc LANCAIR EVOLUTION |
Fixed-wing, single engine | Pelegrin Northwest LLC Bend, Oregon |
Experimental | 2020-10-27 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N93VD | Beech A100 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Absl Construction Hayward, California |
Standard | 2019-11-12 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N528CH | Piper PA-31T |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Individual owner New Mexico |
Standard | 2018-04-05 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N982K | Piper PA-31T |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Aircraft Guaranty CORP Trustee Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Standard | 2017-02-22 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N497WW | Piper PA-31T |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Win Win Aviation INC Wake Forest, North Carolina |
Standard | 2014-06-10 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N219WW | Beech A100 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Tj Air Holdings INC Trustee Wilmington, Delaware |
Standard | 2013-08-02 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N975SP | Beech E-90 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Sky Power LLC Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Standard | 2013-04-11 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N96Y | Beech 65-A90-4 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Dynamic Avlease INC Bridgewater, Virginia |
Restricted | 1999-03-12 | 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.