General Electric GE90-90B

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E00049EN, held by General Electric Company Ge Aviation). The FAA has issued 26 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 61 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 19 of them in the last ten years.

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.

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.