The testing launches a two-year program that will culminate in engine certification in 2016 and entry into commercial service on the Boeing 737 MAX airplane in 2017. The LEAP-1B engine, which is the ...

CFM International's advanced LEAP-1C integrated propulsion system has been awarded Type Certificates by both the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Turkey's Pegasus Airlines has become the first airline to take delivery of the Airbus A320neo powered by CFM International's LEAP-1A engines. The delivery was marked by a low-key private celebration ...

For more than four decades, CFM International has quietly shaped the narrowbody airliner market, powering some of the most recognizable and widespread commercial aircraft ever built. At the heart of ...

SIA Engineering and Safran Aircraft Engines are to set up a joint venture providing MRO services for CFM International Leap engines, amid “growing global demand” for engine maintenance services. The ...

Despite its transatlantic, dual-ownership structure, the principle behind how CFM International operates has remained true to its founders’ vision and proved successful The very idea of CFM ...

Willis Lease Finance Corporation (WLFC) has announced the exercise of purchase rights for 30 new LEAP engines from CFM International, following an option in a 2019 order. The acquisition includes LEAP ...

Safran Aircraft Engines (Paris, France) launched its new LEAP engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) shop on Oct. 13. This Casablanca, Morocco MRO facility, which was originally announced in ...

For hundreds of years of human history, the invention that has defined our ability to travel, explore, and expand our boundaries has been the combustion engine. This hallmark of mechanical development ...

CFM International initiated flight testing of the LEAP-1B engine on April 29 on a modified 747 flying testbed at GE Aviation Flight Test Operations in Victorville, California. The testing is the next ...