The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wants the Federal Aviation Administration to rethink its recently issued airworthiness directive (AD) over General Electric CF6-80 engines and ...
Turkish Airlines (THY) has ordered additional GE CF6-80E1 engines to power its two new Airbus A330-300 aircraft, with options for an additional three A330 aircraft. The maintenance, repair and ...
GE Aerospace and Rolls-Royce (RR) currently dominate the large widebody engine market, although RR also wants to challenge GE once again in the massive narrowbody engine market. These are two of the ...
GE Aviation has upgraded repair warranties for CF6-80C, CF6-80E and CFM International CFM56 engine parts. Warranty hours for GE repaired CF6-80C/80E engine parts have tripled to 6,000 hours and CFM56 ...
The CF6 engine’s entry into service in 1971, powering the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, heralded the then-General Electric’s first major foray into the commercial market and a new era for long-haul air ...
Fatigue fractures in the rear mounting bracket for the left engine pylon led to the crash of UPS flight 2976 departing Muhammed Ali International Airport in Louisville on November 4. That's the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday issued a rare emergency order aimed at blocking the illegal re-export of two large, used U.S.-built commercial jet engines to Iran by a ...