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Engines · turbojet · data as of October 7, 2026

Pratt & Whitney JT4A-3&5 series

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney JT4A-3&5 series engine, rated at about 15,800 pounds of thrust. The Cessna 550 Citation II 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 JT4A-3&5 series. FAA spelling: JT4A-3&5SER.

Fitted to model families

Cessna 550 Citation II1

Cessna 550 Citation II

Where they are owner's state

Tennessee1

Kind of aircraft

Business jets1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111980

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney JT4A-3&5 series the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E-291, held by Pratt & Whitney Division). The FAA has issued 9 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series.

FAA orders 9 airworthiness directives · newest first

1976-05-2076-01-08 · Tenth Stage Compressor Blade · engine
1971-05-1971-06-03 · Twelfth Stage Compressor Rotor Disc · engine
1971-05-0471-02-02 · Twelfth Stage Compressor Rotor Disc · engine
1968-06-1268-12-03 · High Compressor Rotor Blade Failure · engine
1967-01-0567-01-03 · Fuel Manifold Assembly · engine
1964-05-2664-11-04 · Front Compressor Rotor Assemblies · engine

All orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT4A-3&5 series

Certificates and bulletins

E-291Type certificate held by Pratt & Whitney Division · 6 models listed · revised September 15, 1967

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

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Where they are
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-jt4a-3-5-series.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N62TL Cessna
550
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Dialysis Clinic INC
Nashville, Tennessee
Standard 2014-08-01 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.