TEI General Manager Mahmut F. Akşit announced that they are working on a new engine. “We are developing a new PD180 engine, we have had its first trial,” Akşit said. The new engine will be a lighter but more powerful version of the TEI-PD170.
Akşit stated that PD180 and TEI-TJ300 Turbojet engine works will be advanced later this year.
Akşit said the development of the TF-X engine was not given to TEI. “The TF-X engine will take years to develop. Even if TRMotor develops it, its production will probably come to us. In 2023, the first plane to come out of the hangar will come out with F-16 engines, the F110. All components of the F-16 engines are brought together in TEI. We have a serious know-how experience with the F110. The first 5-10 prototype engines to be produced will be manufactured at TEI. We are now conducting prototype negotiations,” he said.
211216-N-QI061-1222 NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. (December 16, 2021) An MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), assigned to Unmanned Patrol Squadron 19 (VUP-19), sits on the flight line at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, Dec. 16, 2021. VUP-19, the Navy’s first Triton squadron, will continue to maintain and operate the aircraft off the East Coast to further develop the concept of operations and refine tactics, techniques, and procedures. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan T. Beard/ Released)