GE Aviation marks 25 years of GE90 engine in service

GE Aviation on Monday, November 16, 2020, celebrated 25 years of service of GE90 engine and expected the technological pioneer engine to continue powering aircraft for decades to come.

On November 17, 1995, the GE90 entered service on the Boeing 777, powering a British Airways flight between London and Dubai.

The GE90 engine has been among the most reliable in the industry with a world-class dispatch reliability rate of 99.97 percent. In July, the engine family surpassed 100 million flight hours.

Speaking on the milestone, Mike Kauffman, GE Aviation’s GE90 Program General Manager, said “We are excited to celebrate another GE90 milestone and would like to congratulate everyone involved in the engine’s success.

 “We continue to deliver these extremely reliable engines and our dedicated product support team will maintain the GE90 for many years to come, providing maximum value throughout its lifecycle.”

Mike Kauffman said GE has delivered more than 2,800 GE90 -94B and upgraded -115B engines to 70 operators around the world. The engine family powers all Boeing 777 models and is the exclusive powerplant on the 777-300ER, -200LR, and 777F.

The GE90 engine faces some of the toughest demands daily on a high-thrust commercial jet engine. Despite this, the engine has achieved the lowest maintenance burden to date through service bulletin terminating action acceleration and analytics-based field programs.

Its architecture and mechanical design have influenced every GE and CFM turbofan over the last 20 years, from the popular GEnx and record-selling CFM LEAP engine to the Passport for corporate jets and the next generation GE9X engine for the Boeing 777X.

The GE90 engine held the world record as the most powerful jet engine for 17 years at 127,900 pounds of thrust until the newly-certified GE9X engine achieved the new mark of 134,300 pounds.

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