The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Engines · turboprop · data as of October 5, 2026

Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120

17 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 engine, rated at about 1800 horsepower. The Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 is the model most often fitted with it (11 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1990 and 1993.

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 PW120. FAA spelling: PW120.

Fitted to model families

Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 4211Boeing DHC-8-1023Aerospatiale ATR 722Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR72-2121

Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR 42 · Boeing DHC-8-102 · Aerospatiale ATR 72 · Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR72-212

Where they are owner's state

Tennessee14Utah2Delaware1

Kind of aircraft

Turboprops17 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0361013131990

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 the component layer

No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 667 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 57 of them in the last ten years.

Failure reports 667 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

016324965950005101520224

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Engine60Bearing24Wire22Hmu16Oil System16Wire Harness12Connector11Ecu11Actuator10Indicator10

Latest reports

2024-12-12Oil Cooler: cracked
2024-06-04Fuel Nozzle: faulted
2020-07-14O-Ring: leaking
2019-07-26Pump: fod
2019-06-12Axle: damaged

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
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw120.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 17

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N807EX Boeing
DHC-8-102
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Frontera Flight Holdings INC
Dover, Delaware
Standard 2022-09-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N837EX Boeing
DHC-8-102
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2020-04-10 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N839EX Boeing
DHC-8-102
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2020-04-10 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N806FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR72-212
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2010-07-28 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N805FX Aerospatiale
ATR 72-212
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2010-06-16 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N807FX Aerospatiale
ATR 72-212
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2010-06-16 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N920FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2004-06-15 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N921FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Experimental 2004-05-25 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N919FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2004-03-25 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N916FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2004-03-15 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N918FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2004-03-08 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N917FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2004-01-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N914FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2003-11-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N915FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2003-11-22 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N913FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2003-10-23 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N910FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2003-09-29 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N909FX Aerospatiale/Aeritalia
ATR 42-300
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express CORP
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 2003-09-04 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.