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Graham Warwick
January 27, 2026
Working with AeroTEC, Pratt & Whitney Canada is converting a Dash 8-100 into a hybrid-electric flight demonstrator. Credit: Pratt & Whitney Canada
P&WC’s Hybrid Demonstrator Advances Manufacture of hardware has begun for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s long-planned hybrid-electric propulsion flight demonstrator, a heavily modified De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 regional turboprop. “Flight engine design is nearly complete,” Jean Thomassin, executive…
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