Pratt & Whitney Canada ) is a Canadian aircraft engine
manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec , just
outside Montreal . It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt
& Whitney (P&W), itself a business unit of United Technologies .
United Technologies has given PWC a world mandate for smaller
aircraft engines while P&W's US operations develop and
manufacture larger engines. Although PWC is a division of P&W,
it has its own research, development and marketing as well as
the manufacturing of its engines. Since the development of its
famous PT6 turboprop engine in the 1960s, PWC has dominated its
sector of the world market for aircraft engines. The company
currently has 9,200 employees worldwide, with 6,200 of them in
Canada. The Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, Ltd. was
founded in November 1928 to act as a service centre for P&W
aircraft engines. During World War II , it assembled Pratt &
Whitney Wasp series engines built in the U.S. In 1952, the
production of Wasp engines was transf