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.
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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.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2005--GE Energy's nuclear business has been awarded a multi-year, $17 million contract by Exelon Corp., the largest nuclear generation company in the nation, to supply reactor control components to the utility's fleet of 12 boiling water reactors (BWRs).
Under the contract, GE is supplying critical parts for the hydraulic control units (HCUs) in all twelve of Exelon's BWR units, which are located in Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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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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November 8, 2005 -- LYNN, Massachusetts - The Department of Defense has selected GE's F404 as the winner of its first annual Performance Based Logistics (PBL) award in the sub-system category for its achievement in providing F-18 warfighter with outstanding operational capability.
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November 04, 2005 -- BEIJING, China - In 1985, two Chinese airlines, Air China Southwest and China Eastern Yunnan, took delivery of their first Boeing 737s. These airplanes were powered by CFM International's CFM56-3 engines. CFM was a very young company and these were some of its first orders. Since then, China has become one of the largest and most important customer regions for CFM, with 14 Chinese airlines operating more than 1,075 CFM56 engines powering nearly 500 Airbus and Boeing aircraft.