ATR ATR 72-600

16 parts applicable to this airframe — turboprop

Part NumberStatus
PW120OEM
PW120AOEM
PW121OEM
PW121AOEM
PW121TMPMA
PW123
PW123C
PW123D
PW123EOEM
PW124PMA
PW124B
PW127OEM
PW127FOEM
PW127MOEM
PW127TM
PW12APMA

Top Replacement-Prone Parts(3)

From FAA SDR — directional buying signal, not a failure rate

Part #PropensitySDRs
PW127100%11
PW121100%10
PW120A94%19

* Structural ATA chapters use FAA K-code change rate. Verb-based propensity is suppressed there because "REPAIRED" in the SDR text usually refers to the airframe being repaired around the part.

Utilization & cargo trend(US carriers, 2015–2025)

ATR family rollup — BTS T-100, domestic + international

Cycles per aircraft
2422025
2015: 418 cycles/aircraft2016: 474 cycles/aircraft2017: 382 cycles/aircraft2018: 223 cycles/aircraft2019: 253 cycles/aircraft2020: 278 cycles/aircraft2021: 241 cycles/aircraft2022: 301 cycles/aircraft2023: 418 cycles/aircraft2024: 444 cycles/aircraft2025: 242 cycles/aircraft
20152025
2020: 278
Recovered to 176% of 2019 (2024 vs 2019)
Freighter share of departures
24%44%20152025
2015: 24.1% freighter share2016: 21.8% freighter share2017: 23.6% freighter share2018: 35.4% freighter share2019: 37.5% freighter share2020: 38.1% freighter share2021: 32.7% freighter share2022: 36% freighter share2023: 23.3% freighter share2024: 19.4% freighter share2025: 43.7% freighter share
20152025
Est. US-registered fleet
642025
20152025

US carriers only (BTS T-100, domestic + international segments) — foreign-carrier flying is excluded, so global utilization runs higher. Fleet size is reconstructed from the FAA registry (built on or before each year, not yet deregistered) — an approximation. Freighter share counts departures with zero passengers and freight aboard — a proxy for freighter/combi operations, not a tail-by-tail conversion count. Missing years render as gaps.

USM supply — retirements & teardowns(20232026)

ATR family — FAA registry deregistrations

Left the US registry
34aircraft
Stayed domestic
10vs 24 exported
Avg age at retirement
18.7years
Still US-registered
64aircraft
Where this family's parts catalog concentrates — the systems most exposed to incoming teardown supply

FAA registry data. Domestic deregistration is a teardown proxy — it also captures re-registrations and some unflagged exports, so it is not a confirmed part-out count; exported aircraft left the US fleet intact and are not USM supply. ATA shares reflect where this directory's parts for the family concentrate (parts in parentheses) — a coverage signal, not the aircraft's bill of materials or a teardown-yield forecast.

Engine-program supply pressure(since 2023)

FAA registry — US-registered fleet

Engines account for roughly half of all MRO spend, so engine programs shedding aircraft are where retirement supply carries the most value.

Engine modelActive tailsEngine unitsRetired since ’23ExportedAvg age at dereg
P&W CANADA PW12017344331.8 yr
P&W CANADA PW12114284633 yr
P&W CANADA PW127M19381612.9 yr
P&W CANADA PW127E121119 yr
P & W 1273600
P&W CANADA PW1242400
P&W CANADA PW127F240218.5 yr

FAA registry data, US-registered aircraft only. Counts reflect the engine model as registered — generic “series” rows coexist with thrust-variant rows, so per-variant figures are partial. Retired = domestic deregistrations (a teardown proxy, not a confirmed part-out); exported aircraft left the US fleet intact. Active tails span every family the engine flies on, not just this one.

Maintenance economics(US carriers, through 2025)

ATR family — BTS Form 41 filings

Direct maintenance per block hour
$178fleet avg
Airframe / engine split
$171/$7
Reporting carriers
1

BTS Form 41 data (Schedule P-5.2 maintenance expense over T-2 block hours), Group III US carriers only — filers above $1B annual revenue; smaller US operators, Part 135, and all non-US carriers are not in this data. Dollars are accrual-basis from regulatory filings (reserves and depreciation included), so they benchmark fleet economics and do not track to individual repair events. Averages are block-hour- weighted across every reporting carrier; the range spans per-carrier rates after excluding marginal reporting slices, and small carrier counts are noisy.

Airworthiness Directive activity

FAA / EASA public regulatory data

52airworthiness directives affecting this fleet — recurring compliance demand for the parts and shops that serve it
Most recent
  • EASA AD 2025-0103effective May 19, 2025Mixed actions

    EASA Safety Publications Tool

  • EASA AD 2025-0087effective Apr 30, 2025Mixed actions

    EASA Safety Publications Tool

  • EASA AD 2025-0080effective Apr 25, 2025Mixed actions

    EASA Safety Publications Tool

  • EASA AD 2025-0045effective Mar 5, 2025Mixed actions

    EASA Safety Publications Tool

  • EASA AD 2025-0044effective Mar 5, 2025Mixed actions

    EASA Safety Publications Tool

Directives linked to this airframe family in the FAA / EASA regulatory corpus we have processed — not a complete historical AD list. An AD is a compliance requirement that drives scheduled work (inspections, replacements, modifications) across the fleet; inspection directives are not replacement directives, and none of this is a prediction that any part will fail.