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Engines · turbofan · data as of October 5, 2026

General Electric GE90 series

1 aircraft on the U.S. register carry a General Electric GE90 series engine, rated at about 81,000 pounds of thrust. The Boeing 777 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 GE90 series. FAA spelling: GE90 SERIES.

Fitted to model families

Boeing 7771

Boeing 777

Where they are owner's state

Utah1

Kind of aircraft

Airliners and large jets1 (100%)

When the aircraft were built by decade

0001112000

What the FAA has certified, ordered and been told about the General Electric GE90 series the component layer

The design is held under 1 type certificate (E00049EN, held by General Electric Company Ge Aviation). The FAA has issued 31 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this engine series. Operators and repair shops have filed 75 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 41 of them in the last ten years.

FAA orders 31 airworthiness directives · newest first

2026-02-062025-25-07 · Turbine Section · engine
2024-02-272023-26-07 · Turbine Section · engine
2023-05-102023-05-17 · Turbine Section · engine
2023-01-172022-23-09 · Turbine Engine Compressor Section, Turbine Section · engine
2022-10-262022-18-06 · Turbine Engine Compressor Section, Turbine Section · engine
2022-02-152021-26-06 · Turbine Engine Accessory Drive · engine

All orders naming the General Electric GE90 series

Failure reports 75 since · what operators and shops told the FAA

08152230991218253026

Parts most often reported as the reports name them

Battery Pack7Engine7Battery4Sensor4Skin4Spar4Blades3Blade2Compressor2Panel2

Latest reports

2026-10-05Battery Pack: inoperative
2026-10-05Battery Pack: no test
2026-10-05Battery Pack: no test
2026-10-04Frame: cracked
2026-10-04Spar: cracked

Certificates and bulletins

E00049ENType certificate held by General Electric Company Ge Aviation · 8 models listed · revised June 11, 2024

Safety bulletins 1 · advice, not orders

2012-04-16NE-12-26 · Fan Blade GE90 Updated Inspections

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
  • Utah 1 of these aircraft
Biggest operators

These connections as data: /graph/engine/general-electric-ge90-series.json · about the eFlight graph.

Aircraft newest certificates first · 1

Tail no.Maker and modelGroupOwner and baseCertificateRegisteredStatus
N779CK Boeing
777-36NER
Fixed-wing, multi-engine Bank of Utah Trustee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Standard 2021-05-14 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.