Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A
2 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A engine, rated at about 1800 horsepower. The Dehavilland DHC-8 is the model most often fitted with it (2 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1985 and 1989.
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 PW120A. FAA spelling: PW120A.
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 PW120A the component layer
The design is held under 1 type certificate (E20NE, held by Pratt & Whitney Canada CORP.). The FAA has issued 12 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 2,399 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 636 of them in the last ten years.
FAA orders 12 airworthiness directives · newest first
Failure reports 2,399 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
Certificates and bulletins
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
- Dehavilland DHC-8 2 with this engine series
- Virginia 2 of these aircraft
- Dynamic Avlease INC 2 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120A 2,399 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw120a.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N8100L | Dehavilland DHC-8-103 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Dynamic Avlease INC Bridgewater, Virginia |
Standard | 2013-10-23 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N8100V | Dehavilland DHC-8-102 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Dynamic Avlease INC Bridgewater, Virginia |
Standard | 2009-05-20 | 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 7, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.