Pratt & Whitney JT9D series
13 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a Pratt & Whitney JT9D series engine, rated at about 43,500 pounds of thrust. The Boeing 747 is the model most often fitted with it (5 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1969 and 1987.
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 JT9D series. FAA spelling: JT9D SERIES.
Fitted to model families
Boeing 747 · Boeing 767 · Airbus Industrie A310-222 · Douglas DC-10 · Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9
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 JT9D series the component layer
The design is held under 2 type certificates. The FAA has issued 61 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 1,933 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 8 of them in the last ten years.
FAA orders 61 airworthiness directives · newest first
Failure reports 1,933 since · what operators and shops told the FAA
Parts most often reported as the reports name them
Latest reports
Certificates and bulletins
Safety bulletins 7 · advice, not orders
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
- Boeing 747 5 with this engine series
- Boeing 767 4 with this engine series
- Douglas DC-10 1 with this engine series
- Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9 1 with this engine series
- Utah 4 of these aircraft
- Washington 2 of these aircraft
- Texas 2 of these aircraft
- Tennessee 2 of these aircraft
- North Dakota 1 of these aircraft
- Federal Express CORP 2 of these aircraft
- Umb Bank Na Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- Umb Bank N A Trustee 1 of these aircraft
- Omega Air INC 1 of these aircraft
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration 1 of these aircraft
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney JT9D series 61 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney JT9D series 1,933 reports since 1995
These connections as data: /graph/engine/pratt-whitney-jt9d-series.json · about the eFlight graph.
Aircraft newest certificates first · 13
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Group | Owner and base | Certificate | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N602KW | Boeing 767-238 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Alta 767 Spv LLC Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2024-03-19 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N471EV | Boeing 747-273C |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Gugu LTD Bellevue, Washington |
Standard | 2022-08-27 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N651GT | Boeing 767-231SF |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Umb Bank Na Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2021-01-05 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N650GT | Boeing 767-231 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Umb Bank N A Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2020-12-30 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N767BZ | Boeing 767-231 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Bank of Utah Trustee Salt Lake City, Utah |
Standard | 2020-03-27 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N438AA | Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83) |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Frontera Flight Holding INC Dover, Delaware |
Standard | 2019-01-10 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N852V | Douglas DC-10-40 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Omega Air INC San Antonio, Texas |
Experimental | 2018-01-17 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N747KV | Boeing 747-SP44 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Jet Aero Holdings INC Coral Gables, Florida |
Standard | 2004-09-15 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N472EV | Boeing 747-131 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Fletcher Aviation Services LLC Bismarck, North Dakota |
Experimental | 2002-01-23 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N454FE | Airbus Industrie A310-222 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Federal Express CORP Memphis, Tennessee |
Standard | 1999-10-18 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N453FE | Airbus Industrie A310-222 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Federal Express CORP Memphis, Tennessee |
Standard | 1999-09-02 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N7470 | Boeing 747-121 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | Museum of Flight Foundation Seattle, Washington |
Experimental | 1991-02-12 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes |
| N905NA | Boeing 747-123 |
Fixed-wing, multi-engine | National Aeronautics and Space Administration Houston, Texas |
Experimental | 1974-09-17 | 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.