Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150A
18 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150A engine, rated at about 4,580 pounds of thrust. The Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 is the model most often fitted with it (18 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 2001 and 2009.
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 PW150A. FAA spelling: PW150A.
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 PW150A the component layer
No FAA order in the current files names this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 3,094 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 937 of them in the last ten years.
Failure reports 3,094 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
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
- Bombardier DHC-8 Dash 8 and Q400 18 with this engine series
- Utah 12 of these aircraft
- Alaska 3 of these aircraft
- South Carolina 1 of these aircraft
- Oregon 1 of these aircraft
- Maryland 1 of these aircraft
- Bank Of Utah Trustee 11 of these aircraft
- Conocophillips Alaska INC 3 of these aircraft
- Wells Fargo Trust CO Na Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- Bank Of Utah Owner Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150A 3,094 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-canada-pw150a.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 18
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N948AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2026-09-02 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N990AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2026-05-04 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N430QX | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2026-03-26 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N689AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Owner Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2025-10-14 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N993AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Restricted | 2025-01-24 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N947AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Restricted | 2025-01-23 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N988AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Restricted | 2024-05-08 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N989AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Restricted | 2024-03-04 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N4203B | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2023-11-17 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N4202B | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2023-11-14 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N429QX | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Portland Community College Portland, Oregon |
Standard | 2023-03-21 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N404E | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bai Bayview Aviation LLC Mount Pleasant, South Carolina |
Experimental | 2022-08-11 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N998AC | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Restricted | 2022-03-18 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N199WQ | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2021-08-10 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N796CP | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Conocophillips Alaska INC Anchorage, Alaska |
Standard | 2020-01-31 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N792CP | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Conocophillips Alaska INC Anchorage, Alaska |
Standard | 2019-09-19 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N794CP | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Conocophillips Alaska INC Anchorage, Alaska |
Standard | 2019-09-05 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N404AV | Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Wells Fargo Trust CO Na Trustee Columbia, Maryland |
Standard | 2017-08-28 | 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.