November 20, 2005 -- DUBAI - Emirates Airlines has ordered 42 extended-range Boeing 777 aircraft, all powered by GE90 engines, with purchase rights for an additional 20 aircraft.
These GE90-115B engines will be covered by a 12-year, OnPoint
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November 20, 2005 -- DUBAI - ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company (KSCC) has completed an agreement to purchase 12 firm, eight option Airbus A350 aircraft powered by the GEnx engine.
The GEnx engines for the firm 12 A350s are valued at more than $300 million. Delivery of the aircraft, a combination of A350-800 and A350-900 models, is scheduled to begin in 2012.
Based in Kuwait, ALAFCO is a growing aviation lease and finance company with customers in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
November 20, 2005 -- DUBAI - ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company (KSCC) has completed an agreement to purchase 12 firm, eight option Airbus A350 aircraft powered by the GEnx engine.
The GEnx engines for the firm 12 A350s are valued at more than $300 million. Delivery of the aircraft, a combination of A350-800 and A350-900 models, is scheduled to begin in 2012.
Based in Kuwait, ALAFCO is a growing aviation lease and finance company with customers in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
November 20, 2005 -- DUBAI - General Electric Company is playing a large role in the construction of Emirates Airlines' jet engine test facility in Dubai.
Emirates Airlines, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, began construction on the facility in June, with completion scheduled for January 2007. The facility was designed in co-operation with GE with a capability unique to the Middle East region.
November 20, 2005 -- DUBAI - Long recognized as a leader in propulsion technology, General Electric Company (GE) is engaged in the most aggressive research & development (R&D) effort in its history to bring a new generation of high-thrust jet engines to the marketplace.
GE - Aviation has invested approximately $1 billion (USD) annually in R&D since 2001. The result is a series of new jet engines that are powering the growing fleets of commercial aircraft across the Middle East.
November 19, 2005 -- ORLANDO, FLORIDA - GE Honda Aero Engines LLC is validating design and component enhancements to its latest-generation HF118 jet engine in anticipation of running a full engine incorporating these designs by early 2007.
GE Honda Aero Engines LLC is a 50/50 joint venture company formed a year ago to manufacture and market the HF118 family of commercial turbofan engines, ranging in thrust from 1,000 to 3,500 pounds, for light business aircraft.
November 17, 2005 -- EVENDALE, OH - Ten years ago today, the world's most powerful jet engine-the GE90-entered service on a new Boeing 777. Since then, the GE90 engine family has amassed an outstanding reliability record while supporting the worldwide success of Boeing's twin-engine, long-range 777 aircraft family.
Throughout the last decade, GE has continued to invest in the GE90 engine family, which has grown from its initial certification at 76,400 pounds of thrust to an unprecedented 115,000 pounds of thrust today. To date, more than 350 GE90 engines are in service.
November 15, 2005 -- EVENDALE, OHIO - The Boeing Company today officially launched the new Boeing 747-8 aircraft, powered by General Electric Company's new GEnx engine.
Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) ordered up to 34 747-8 Freighters. Cargolux has ordered 10 firm, 10 option 747-8 freighters; NCA has ordered eight firm, six option 747-8 Freighters. Deliveries to both these customers will begin in 2009.
November 9, 2005 -- EVENDALE, OH - Air Canada has selected GEnx engines to power its new Boeing 787 fleet, along with the GE90 which powers the 777-200LR and 777-300ER fleets.
GEnx engines will power Air Canada's new fleet of 14 firm Boeing 787 aircraft, along with options and purchase rights for a total of up to 60 787 aircraft. The list price value of the engines for the firm order of 787 aircraft is more than $400 million. Aircraft deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2010.
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