Special Delivery: CTEC Welcomes GE9X Engine to Training Center
GE's Customer Technical Education Center (CTEC) facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, recently added a GE9X engine for use in customer training classes. “Everything on the GE9X is big—nothing is small,” said Eli Lessing, retired New Product Introduction Program Manager for Training at CTEC. “We needed a lot of space to accommodate the engine.”
One Big Family: Supporting the Italian Air Force in the Time of COVID-19
Gianluca De Donno has worked as an Avio Aero field service representative at the Italian Air Force base in Pisa for 10 years. "By now, I know, and am known by, almost everyone at the air base. I feel like one of them because they make me feel like that. It is really like one big family."
Virtual Customer Support: GE Offers Online Training for Engines and Systems Maintenance
GE Aviation's Customer Technical Education Center in Cincinnati has put a bevy of "Maintenance Minute" videos and remote learning courses online to help fill the gap for mechanics unable to visit GE Aviation training centers due to the pandemic.
GE Aviation’s Quick Six with Paul Tucker
Paul Tucker, who works engine assembly, has been through a lot and seen a lot in his 30+-year stint at GE Aviation in Lynn – including becoming a GE celebrity.
In a Maintenance Minute: Apple iOS app update and Android version launched
GE Aviation's Maintenance Minute videos provide engine maintainers on-demand general engine maintenance tips and best practice video tutorials via YouTube or the Maintenance Minute app.
TrueChoice Transitions: You may only know ‘part’ of the story
Many owners and operators are now seeing the multiple benefits that TrueChoice Transitions can bring at any point in a customer’s ownership horizon.
Feeling the love: AIN readers name GE #1 Engine Support Provider for Business Jets
The results of the 2017 AIN Product Support Survey are out and for the second year in a row, customers have selected GE as the #1 provider of engine support for business jets.
Scan and fix: GE Aviation uses additive technology to fast track engine component repairs
Avio Aero, a GE Aviation business, is testing unique processes to manufacture and repair jet engine components. The processes, a form of additive technology, enable fast testing of new design practices and approaches for engine components.
In a Maintenance Minute: New app gives customers more access to popular GE, CFM engine maintenance videos
Now there’s more than one way to easily access GE Aviation's Maintenance Minute series that provides general engine maintenance tips and best practice video tutorials for GE and CFM engines. The new app can be found on Apple’s App Store and runs on iPhones and iPads.
Let the heroes fly
The Avio Aero site in Brindisi, Italy is home to one of the longest-running specialist centers for aircraft service support activities.
Here, a team of technical support specialists and operators, highly experienced in the maintenance and repair of large aero-derivate turbines and military aircraft engines, carry out services on helicopter engines from the General Electric T700 family, which are fitted on the helicopter fleets of Italy’s Navy, Army and Airforce.