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Engines · turbofan · data as of October 7, 2026

General Electric CF6-6D

2 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a General Electric CF6-6D engine, rated at about 39,300 pounds of thrust. The Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10 is the model most often fitted with it (2 aircraft). The aircraft carrying it were built between 1971 and 1972.

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 CF6-6D. FAA spelling: CF6-6D.

Fitted to model families

Mcdonnell Douglas MD-102

Mcdonnell Douglas MD-10

Where they are owner's state

Tennessee2

Kind of aircraft

Business jets2 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0012221970

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the General Electric CF6-6D the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E23EA, held by General Electric Company). The FAA has issued 23 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 1,051 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 19 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 23 airworthiness directives · newest first

2003-06-172003-10-01 · High pressure turbine rotor (HPTR) rear shafts · engine
2002-04-122002-05-03 · Life-Limited Rotating Parts · engine
1999-05-1399-08-18 · Airworthiness Directives; General Electric Company CF6-6, CF6-45, and CF6-50 Series Turbofan Engines · engine
1998-11-2398-22-06 · Fan Disks · engine
1998-09-3098-18-10 · Low Pressure Turbine Disks · engine
1995-09-2195-18-14 · High Pressure Compressor Rotor · engine

All orders naming the General Electric CF6-6D

Failure reports 1,051 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

0123246370493950005101520126

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Skin204Engine64Hinge Fitting49Fitting38Seat Track25Hinge Bracket20Floor Panel19Longeron19Battery Pack18Wire18

Latest reports

2026-01-03Plug: leaking
2025-06-13Engine: fire
2025-06-12Engine: fire
2024-08-23Retainer: gouged
2023-01-26Shutoff Valve: failed

Certificates and bulletins

E23EAType certificate held by General Electric Company · 18 models listed · revised June 10, 2013

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-cf6-6d.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 2

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N369FE Mcdonnell Douglas
MD-10-10F
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 1997-10-25 ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes
N367FE Mcdonnell Douglas
MD-10-10F
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Federal Express Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee
Standard 1997-10-07 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 7, 2026. Horsepower and thrust are the FAA's figures for the series, not for a particular aircraft.