ILA Berlin Air Display, Thursday, 23 June 2022 EUROJET Turbo GmbH (EUROJET), the consortium accountable for the EJ200 engine put in within the Eurofighter Hurricane, has nowadays signed a freelance with the NATO Eurofighter & Twister Control Company (NETMA) to offer 48 new EJ200 engines for the Spanish Air Drive.
The contract, signed on the ILA Berlin Air Display, between Common Miguel Ángel Martín Pérez, Common Supervisor of NETMA and Gerhard Bähr, CEO of EUROJET, covers EJ200 engines for the Eurofighter Hurricane fighter plane as a part of Challenge Halcón. The plane will input carrier at the Canary Islands, including to the present Spanish fleet of 70 Eurofighters.
EUROJET indicators contract with NETMA to offer 48 new EJ200 engines for the Spanish Air Drive
In commonplace with all EJ200 engines for the Spanish Air Drive, ultimate meeting of the engines shall be performed via ITP Aero at their Ajalvir facility with deliveries scheduled from 2024 onwards. Manufacturing of the engine modules shall be carried out via the 4 spouse corporations of the EUROJET consortium; Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, ITP Aero and Avio Aero.
On signature of the contract, Mr Bähr said: “I wish to thank the Spanish buyer for his or her self assurance within the Eurofighter platform, the EUROJET consortium, and the efficiency and sustainability of the EJ200 engines. This order complements Eu defence capacity and concurrently supplies long-term safety for various extremely professional jobs within the Eu aerospace trade.”
Common Miguel Ángel Martín Pérez mentioned: “With nowadays’s Halcón contract signature, we conclude effectively a joint new Hurricane procurement endeavour with 48 new EJ200 engines for Spain. The instant is strategic for a number of causes: to proceed supporting Aerospace trade restoration after the COVID technology, to function a transparent message that the EJ200 is a competent asset, and to enhance NATO deterrence functions.”
ABOUT EUROJET:
The EUROJET consortium is accountable for the control of the EJ200 engine programme. EUROJET’s shareholders include Rolls-Royce (UK), MTU Aero Engines (Germany), ITP Aero (Spain) and Avio Aero (Italy). The engine represents exceptional and cutting edge era and regularly demonstrates its outstanding efficiency within the Eurofighter Hurricane. With its exceptional efficiency document, blended with multi-role capacity and very best availability at aggressive life-cycle prices, the EJ200 engine is completely set to satisfy air drive necessities, either one of nowadays and the long run.
Since supply of the primary manufacturing engine in 2003, over 1300 EJ200 manufacturing engines were dropped at Air Drive buyer fleets of 9 countries, and the EJ200 engine has accomplished in way over 1.5 million engine flying hours.
Prime Answer photographs of the EJ200 will also be downloaded from: http://www.eurojet.de/media
