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Rolls-Royce wins $400 million service contract with Brazil's Azul

A Rolls-Royce aircraft engine of a British Airways (BA) Boeing 747 passenger aircraft is seen at Heathrow Airport in west London April 7, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR.) has won a $400 million (238 million pounds) contract with Azul Brazilian Airlines to service Rolls-Royce engines, which it said will be used to power the Brazilian company's aircraft.

Rolls, the world's second-largest maker of aircraft engines behind U.S. group General Electric (GE.N), said on Wednesday Azul's six Airbus A330-200 and five A350-900 XWB aircraft would be powered by its Trent 700 and Trent XWB engines respectively.

Rolls said new customer Azul's $400 million TotalCare order would increase its order book by $100 million.

(Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by Kate Holton)