GE’s CF6 engine celebrated 50 years of service last week. We asked former CF6 leaders to reflect on the engine and what it means to GE Aviation and to them personally.

GE Aviation’s CF6 engine family reaches 50 years of revenue service.

The CF6 engine celebrates its 50th anniversary of revenue service on August 5, 2021. The engine family has accumulated more than 460 million engine flight hours.

CEO John Slattery spotlights some of the real work GE Aviation is doing toward our sustainability goals.

GE Aviation is helping lead the industry in Sustainable Aviation Fuel, work critical to helping the global aviation industry meet its collective goals to reduce emissions.

The Catalyst engine recently passed its ice testing campaign amid glacial temperatures, thanks to a team of seasoned engineers.

At the end of February, a Boeing 767 passenger jet, powered by two GE CF6 engines, flew to Antarctica to pick up a group of scientists returning home from the Troll research station.

Every GE Aviation and CFM engine is created with a digital copy, all the way down to every single part number.

In their respective roles in GE Digital and GE Aviation Customer & Product Support, Keith and Danielle Lesch have made airline support personal missions after their own experience with a flight delay.

Atlas Air Worldwide has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to purchase GEnx-2B engines for its four Boeing 747-8 Freighters. Airlines and other GE customers have ordered more than 2,500 GEnx engines since they entered service early in the last decade, making it the fastest-selling, high-thrust engine in GE’s history.