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First F-35 Engine At New Plant Delivered

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First F-35 Engine At New Plant Delivered
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Photo by Lockheed Martin.

The first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine produced by Pratt & Whitney at a new plant in Florida has been completed and delivered to Italy, the company said Tuesday. Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies [UTX], has been building the F135 engines at its facility in Middletown, Conn., but opened a new site in West Palm Beach, Fla. in April 2013 to create extra capacity to build the engines as production of the F-35 picks up. The first…

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