{"id":189743,"date":"2025-03-23T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/longest-running-aircraft-engine-still-on-planes-today\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:00:13","slug":"this-is-the-longest-running-aircraft-engine-still-powering-planes-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=189743","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Longest-Running Aircraft Engine Still Powering Planes Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2016379\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-jet-engines-list\/\" >General Electric CF6 family of high-bypass turbofan engines<\/a><\/span> stands out as one of the most successful widebody engines ever developed. Even though it was first developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it remains in production for freighter aircraft. Additionally, the LM2500 variant of the engine powers most of the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> and US-allied and partner warships that use gas turbine propulsion. The GE CF6 powers (as an engine option or exclusively) the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span>, Boeing 767, Airbus A300, Airbus A330, and         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037973\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/c-5m-super-galaxy-5-big-facts-about-the-us-air-forces-most-massive-aircraft\/\" >the Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy strategic military transport<\/a><\/span> among other aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GE CF6 the longest running aircraft engine and remains a popular choice for cargo aircraft and some military transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,14163,12905,1575],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-engine-maker","category-ge-aerospace","category-jet-engine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189744,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189743\/revisions\/189744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}