The most important private and business aviation event in Europe, EBACE 2023, was staged in the city of Geneva last month, gathering the industry’s top players along with their latest developments and flagship products. Among the flagship products on display were full-scale mockups of GE’s Passport engine and the new Catalyst turboprop engine, a product of Avio Aero - a GE Aerospace company.  

The race to decarbonize flight just picked up speed. Airbus and CFM International will collaborate on tests of an aircraft engine fueled by hydrogen that, if all goes according to plan, would carry passengers in the mid-2030s while producing no carbon emissions during flight.

GE Aviation's Lafayette manufacturing facility celebrates its 5 year anniversary.

In February, the National Aeronautic Association announced nine nominees for excellence in aeronautics and astronautics in America, competing for the prestigious Collier Trophy. Of the nine nominees this year, GE Aviation has ties to two projects in contention for the prestigious award: the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) team and the Bombardier Global 7500.

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.

Bombardier Business Aircraft announced on Friday that its flagship Global 7500 business jet, powered by GE's Passport engine, has received Transport Canada Type Certification.