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Pratt & Whitney Says It Could Restart Engine Production For Air Force F-22

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

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Pratt & Whitney Says It Could Restart Engine Production For Air Force F-22

An Air Force F-22 Raptor. Photo: Air Force.

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – If the United States decides to restart production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor, Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. [UTX], estimates it could resume delivering F119 engines for the stealth fighter in about three-and-a-half years, a company official said May 31.“We think we could restart the line,” said Matthew Bromberg, president of Pratt & Whitney Military Engines. “We’d have to do the formal study. We think if someone said ‘go’ today,…

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