CFM56 fleet surpasses 800 million flight hours

CFM International’s CFM56 fleet has become the first high bypass turbofan engine family in history to achieve more than 800 million engine flight hours in service. The first CFM56 engines entered service in 1982 and provided a quantum leap to this industry segment in terms of fuel efficiency, noise and emissions levels. Since then, CFM has delivered nearly 30,000 engines to 550-plus operators around the globe. The CFM56 fleet is logging one million flight hours every eight days and, at any given moment, there are more than 2,400 CFM56-powered aircraft in the air. At this rate, the CFM56 family will achieve one billion flight hours by the year 2020.