Pratt & Whitney Expanding Into Muscogee Technology Park to Service Fighter Jet Engines (Columbus: 2014)

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Another huge win for Columbus! Let's keep the good news coming!

Aerospace company Pratt & Whitney, which is relocating work to Columbus from a plant being closed in San Antonio, Texas, will fill a speculative building in Muscogee Technology Park.

When it opens in early 2014, the 105,620-square-foot facility is expected to create 45 jobs initially. The company took out a building permit for $3,546,354 on Aug. 15 to begin work on the industrial structure.

The facility will accommodate F100 (jet engine) overhauls as P&W moves forward with relocating the majority of work performed at the Pratt & Whitney San Antonio Operations.

The current center overhauls V2500-A1 and –A5 jet engines, which are used by commercial aircraft. The facility also services PW2000 and F117 engines used by the U.S. military’s C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft.

Pratt & Whitney confirmed in April that its Columbus Engine Center would be picking up some of the work now being performed in San Antonio on the F100 engines used in U.S. fighter jets, specifically F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. The engines power all of the U.S. Air Force’s F-15s and more than half of F-16s worldwide.

Pratt & Whitney’s Columbus operation already has about 600 employees which is higher than the 400-plus confirmed by the company in April. Aside from the existing engine center, the complex includes the firm’s Georgia Forgings business.

Muscogee Technology Park has been growing over the years. Tenants now in the 1,300-acre Muscogee Technology Park are Litho-Krome Co., MDV (a division of Nash Finch Co.), Fed-Ex Ground, Menlo Worldwide Logistics and NCR, which has two facilities there. There are about 1,100 acres now available for development.

Excellent win for the metro area.