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Engines · turboprop · data as of October 5, 2026

Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-50

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-50 engine, rated at about 1120 horsepower. The Dehavilland DHC-7 is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft).

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-50. FAA spelling: PT6A-50.

Fitted to model families

Dehavilland DHC-71

Dehavilland DHC-7

Where they are owner's state

Utah1

Kind of aircraft

Turboprops1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111970

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-50 the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E4EA, held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP.). The FAA has issued 3 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series.

FAA orders 3 airworthiness directives · newest first

1997-03-1497-04-12 · Compressor Bleed-off Valve · engine
1994-01-2693-23-06 · Airframe Chip Detector Flag System · engine
88-24-02 · Airframe Chip Detector Flag System · engine

Certificates and bulletins

E4EAType certificate held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP. · 54 models listed · revised June 16, 2021

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 1 of these aircraft
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-50.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N650MX Dehavilland
DHC-7-103
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Experimental 2024-03-25 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.