GE Aerospace's GEnx flagship engine family completes 50 million flight hours

In less than 12 years, the GEnx engine family has completed the 50 million flight hour mark making it the fastest rate to be achieved for a commercial widebody engine

With fewer than 3,000 engines in service and backlog and spares, the GEnx engine is the fastest-selling and high-thrust engine in GE history. Since the establishment of GEnx-1B in 2012 has surpassed about 32 million hours by powering the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family apart from that, the GEnx-2B has gathered about 18 million hours since 2011 powering the Boeing 747-8. After merging both the data, at present, the GEnx engine family is in business with more than 70 operators globally with a gross total of over 450,000 flight hours per month achieving the highest flight mark compared to any other GE widebody engine line.

Dave Kircher, General Manager for the GEnx program at GE Aerospace said, “We are thrilled with the performance and staying power of the GEnx engine. We appreciate all of our valued customers for helping the GEnx engine hit this milestone and look forward to the next 50 million hours of distinguished performance with operators around the world.”

The GEnx utilizes lightweight effective materials and advanced processes to reduce weight with the help of advanced forward propulsion technology The GEnx has mechanized some of the farthest flight routes such as the record-breaking 9,765 miles (15,715 km) distance covered in 2020 between Papeete in French Polynesia and Paris.

GE has organized a variety of on-wing technologies accessible for GEnx such as :

360 foam wash can help improve the efficiency of the engine compressor, reduction of fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions, and shop visit time extension.
Blade Inspection Tool (BIT) provides 1B and -2B customers with proper and sustaining information while HPT Stage 1 & Stage 2 blade inspection. With the help of AI, the extraction with an integral camera to capture images is done by blade inspectors. BIT allows the user to configure both lines and areas on the blade’s layer to assess the true condition of the hardware.
FlightPulse is a software application created for pilots to measure their fuel usage and other calculations done against their peers or against previous flights so they can find out proper operations and efficient discoveries.

Crossing the 50 million hour mark is the truest achievement for the GEnx, marking the fastest commercial widebody rate ever recorded.