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CFM56: One Billion Flight-Hours

June 5, 2019

CFM56: One Billion Flight-Hours

The CFM56 engine is the product of a successful marriage between GE and Safran Aircraft Engines (formerly Snecma). Boasting exceptional dispatch reliability, the CFM56 has now achieved the one billion flight hour milestone – an extraordinary achievement for CFM International and its customers, of course, but also for the aerospace industry.

The CFM56 at a glance:

• Introduced 37 years ago
• 8 versions: CFM56-2A, B, C; CFM56-3; CFM56-5A, -5B, -5C; and CFM56-7B
• 28,000+ CFM56 engines in service with about 600 operators
• Dispatch reliability 99.9%
• 7 million passengers a day
• 35 billion passengers since entering service (5 to 6 times the population of our planet).

Learn more: 20 milestones in the history of the best-selling aircraft engine of all time.

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CFM International

The Power of Flight

A 50/50 joint company between GE (USA) and Safran Aircraft Engines (France), we develop, produce and sell the new advanced-technology LEAP engine and the world's best-selling CFM56 engine.


Press Contacts

Jamie Jewell, +1 513.885.2282, jamie.jewell@ge.com

Charles Soret, +33 (0)6.31.60.96.79, charles.soret@safrangroup.com