Translation of Defence Turkey interview with TAI director:
TEI General Manager Faruk AKŞİT: “We operated the TS1400 including the power turbine on 22 October 2020. Our engine is ready for delivery to TAI as of now. The handover ceremony will take place in December with the participation of the President. "
TEI General Manager Faruk Akşit: "TS1400 Atak helicopter produces 100-150 horsepower more power than the equivalent engine."
TEI GM: "Our first prototype engine is ready to be delivered to TAI. We will give this engine to GÖKBEY for integration. We will subject the TS 1400 engine to many tests. We will mature it. It will take 1-2 years, its certification will continue in 1-2 years."
TEA GM: "Turkey's first turbine, called a jet engine among the public, to design, develop, we have established a large part of the infrastructure that will test and produce. It can no longer produce the core of a jet engine meant that."
Ahmet Fındık, TEI Turboshaft Engines Director, said: "We are planning to start certification tests for the TS1400 engine in mid-2023. We aim to complete these tests in a short period of 1.5 years. We aim to deliver the first certified engines at the end of 2024."
TEI R&D Director Dr. Mehmet Demiroğlu: "Our PD 170 engine is an engine that has been analyzed, designed and produced here. It is an engine that has successfully completed EASA tests and has been qualified by SSB. Everything except a very small ready-made part is produced in Eskişehir."
Demiroğlu: "The serial production of the PD 170 engine started in 2020. We have delivered more than 20 engines to TAI so far. In a couple of months, we will remove 20 of our engines from mass production and deliver 40 engines in total."
Demiroğlu: "The mass production figures we aim for in 2021 will be between 40 and 50 engines. This figure will vary depending on the type of platforms our engine will be used on. It will be used in ANKA at the moment. We are planning to integrate it both in AKINCI and AKSUNGUR.
Demiroğlu: "As our flights on the platform increase, our opportunity to compete in exports will increase even more. We can make a surprise in exports in 2021. Let me say that for now. We are working for this."
Demiroğlu: "Our PD 222 engine is an engine we built on our PD 170 engine, it will not take long to emerge. Our goal is to finish our design work in the middle of 2021. By the end of 2021, we plan to complete the platform integration works."
Demiroğlu: "Again, a platform could be AKINCI or another platform. We are planning to integrate on it."
