Pratt & Whitney Canada Signs Maintenance Contract with ERA Helicopters

Released on Monday, February 25, 2008

HELI-EXPO � HOUSTON, Texas, February 25, 2008 � Pratt & Whitney Canada signed a Fleet Management Program contract with ERA Helicopters of Los Angeles to provide engine support for its fleet of Agusta 119 Koala helicopters. The agreement covers ERA's 26 installed and three spare PT6B-37A engines over a period of 11 years. Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is a United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) company.

"We are delighted to be able to offer a cost-effective and 'no surprise' maintenance program to ERA, a major provider of personnel transport services to oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico," said Eva Azoulay, Commercial Director of P&WC's Service Centres organization. "These are very challenging operating conditions that demand an innovative solution, like our Fleet Management Program, to effectively meet maintenance needs."

P&WC, a pioneer in Fleet Management Programs, offers a range of plans that guarantees a customer's operating costs over the long-term life of the aircraft. Moreover, maintenance is performed to high quality standards at P&WC-owned or designated maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities.