General Electric T64
The General Electric T64 is a single- turboprop or turbine shaft of the U.S. manufacturer General Electric. The engine was developed for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Weapons and has been used since the 1960s in helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. The civilian version is called CT64.
History
The first flights with two T64 -GE- 4 were carried out on 22 September 1961 in a de Havilland DHC -4 Caribou. The T64 -GE- 10 was then selected as the standard engine for the development of the successor model Caribou de Havilland Buffalo. Four T64 -GE- 1 drove to the VTOL tilt wing aircraft LTV / Ryan / Hiller XC- 142A, the variants T64 -GE- 1, GE -7 and GE -100 serve as driving the Sikorsky CH -53 versions.
Versions
Use
- AH -56 Cheyenne
- Alenia G.222
- CH -53 Sea Stallion
- CH -53E Super Stallion
- De Havilland Canada DHC -5 Buffalo
- Kawasaki P -2J
- LTV XC -142
- MH -53 Pave Low
- ShinMaywa US-1