The Los Angeles County Fire Department took Jay Leno for a ride in a T700-powered Sikorsky Firehawk helicopter on his CNBC show Jay Leno's Garage. His take on the T700: “I should get that in my car. That would be alright!”

GE Aviation has successfully completed more aircraft re-engining programs for the U.S. Air Force than any other company. That experience makes GE the top choice to re-engine the B-52 Stratofortress.

An Air Tahiti Nui Boeing 787 Dreamliner powered by GEnx engines set a new commercial airline record in March when it flew 9,765 air miles in 15 hours and 45 minutes nonstop from Tahiti to Paris.

On April 30, the second Boeing 777X airplane successfully completed its test flight, cruising 2 hours and 58 minutes over Washington State and landing at Boeing Field in Seattle. On its wings: the most powerful jet engine ever built—the GE9X.

GE Aviation has been awarded $707 million for F110 engine production but the U.S. Air Force. Over the last two months, GE Aviation has inked more than $1.2 billion in contracts to produce engines and hardware to support the U.S. military and international customers.

GE Aviation Hall of Fame member Russ Sparks helped steer the GE90 through its most challenging era, and in doing so, he left his own lasting impact on GE Aviation.

GE Aviation's CF34-10 and Passport engines are the most proven offerings to re-engine the B-52 and offer the highest mission readiness to the U.S. Air Force. 

Back in September, more than 30 colleagues of GE Aviation from Shanghai, Suzhou, Beijing, Xi'an, and Taiwan gathered in Shanghai to celebrate GE Aviation’s 100th Anniversary and visit China Eastern Airlines (CEA) and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) as part of the 100 Flights program.

After flying nonstop from Singapore to Tucson in March, Bombardier's Global 7500 jet set another world record in October, flying from Sydney to Detroit on one tank of fuel—powered by GE Passport engines.

The GEnx engines power Qantas' 787-9 record-breaking non-stop flight from New York to Sydney