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Engines · turboprop · data as of October 5, 2026

Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66A

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66A engine, rated at about 850 horsepower. The Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960 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-66A. FAA spelling: PT6A-66A.

Fitted to model families

Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 9601

Daher (Socata) TBM-700 TBM 700 through TBM 960

Where they are owner's state

Missouri1

Kind of aircraft

Turboprops1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001112010

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66A the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E26NE, held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP.). The FAA has issued 1 airworthiness directive (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 3 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 3 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 1 airworthiness directives · newest first

2024-04-51 emergency · Turbine Section · engine

Failure reports 3 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

00122219121

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Brake Assy1Shutoff Valve1Truss1

Latest reports

2021-02-05Shutoff Valve: failed
2019-12-06Truss: cracked
2019-04-25Brake Assy: locked

Certificates and bulletins

E26NEType certificate held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP. · 20 models listed · revised February 9, 2022

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

These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6a-66a.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N850FP Socata
TBM 700
Fixed-wing, single engine Brical Enterprises LLC
Belton, Missouri
Standard 2017-09-18 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.