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Engines · turbojet · data as of October 5, 2026

Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 engine, rated at about 14,500 pounds of thrust. The Boeing 727 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 JT8D-9. FAA spelling: JT8D-9.

Fitted to model families

Boeing 7271

Boeing 727

Where they are owner's state

Delaware1

Kind of aircraft

Airliners and large jets1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111970

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E2EA, held by Pratt & Whitney). The FAA has issued 38 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 683 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 291 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 38 airworthiness directives · newest first

2011-03-042011-03-01 · Critical life- limited parts · engine
2010-11-122010-21-17 · Fan blade · engine
2010-01-042009-24-01 · Fan blade · engine
2006-11-022006-17-07R1 · High pressure compressor (HPC) front hubs and HPC disk · engine
2005-09-302005-17-16 · Critical life-limited rotating parts · engine
2003-07-182003-12-07 · 12th Stage high pressure compressor · engine

All orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9

Failure reports 683 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

0591181782379500051116118

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Skin65Seat Track41Floorbeam39Frame35Engine33Floor Panel27Floor Support20Shear Tie18Light15Stringer15

Latest reports

2018-11-24Fan: damaged
2016-06-02Thrust Reverser: cracked
2015-12-20Pressure Switch: failed
2014-12-23Unknown: malfunctioned
2013-11-20Unknown: malfunctioned

Certificates and bulletins

E2EAType certificate held by Pratt & Whitney · 16 models listed · revised August 28, 2007

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-jt8d-9.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N209TR Boeing
727-223
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Career Aviation CO INC
Wilmington, Delaware
Standard 2014-05-16 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.