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Engines · turbofan · data as of October 5, 2026

General Electric CF34-8C1

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a General Electric CF34-8C1 engine, rated at about 13,790 pounds of thrust. The Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ is the model most often fitted with it (1 aircraft).

The FAA records engines by code, usually at the level of a series ("O-320 series") rather than the exact variant; this page gathers every FAA code that reads as General Electric CF34-8C1. FAA spelling: CF34-8C1.

Fitted to model families

Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ1

Bombardier CL-600 Challenger and CRJ

Where they are owner's state

California1

Kind of aircraft

Airliners and large jets1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001111990

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the General Electric CF34-8C1 the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E00063EN, held by General Electric Company Ge Aerospace). The FAA has issued 16 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 1,415 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 102 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 16 airworthiness directives · newest first

2025-07-232025-12-08 · Turbine Engine Combustion Section · engine
2023-03-142023-02-05 · Turbine Engine Combustion Section · engine
2022-11-152022-21-06 · Turbine Section · engine
2022-06-242022-09-14 · Compressor Bleed Valve · engine
2022-04-292022-08-06 · Turbine Engine Compression Section · engine
2021-10-222021-18-13 · Turbine Engine Combustion Section · engine

All orders naming the General Electric CF34-8C1

Failure reports 1,415 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

0951902843790106111621526

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Seat Track157Engine62Door54Window39Skin31Windshield31Floorbeam30Light29Actuator26Angle26

Latest reports

2026-08-19Sensor: faulted
2026-07-30Engine: degraded
2026-06-30Warning Message: illuminated
2026-04-14Engine: indication
2026-02-12Pin: damaged

Certificates and bulletins

E00063ENType certificate held by General Electric Company Ge Aerospace · 14 models listed · revised November 22, 2024

Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.

Connections how this engine series links to the rest of the register

Fitted to
Where they are
Biggest operators
Airworthiness

These connections as data: /graph/engine/general-electric-cf34-8c1.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N804X Bombardier Inc
CL-600-2C10
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Northrop Grumman Systems CORP
El Segundo, California
Experimental 2010-07-30 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database (the engine reference table and each aircraft's engine code), October 5, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.