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A little over two months have passed since last November, when GE Aviation Turboprop and the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague started the demonstration test campaign for the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) on the Catalyst engine, as part of a wider technological collaboration program between the company and Czech universities.

Testing with the SAF-powered Catalyst took place at CVUT’s dynometric test cell located in the Czech Aerospace Research Centre (VZLU) test center, a stone’s throw from the GE Aviation Turboprop headquarters; this same room hosted the engine’s high-power tests in 2018. As of today, over 3,000 hours of test operations on 17 assembled engines have involved the new European-born advanced turboprop engine.

The first findings from the testing are presented in an article from the ABOUT portal of AVIO AERO and can be found HERE.