GE Aerospace is investing $33 million in its Greenville, South Carolina, turbine blade production facility—about half of it dedicated to newer manufacturing technologies on CFM56 high-pressure turbine ...

GKN Aerospace has been approved to perform repair and overhaul work on the CFM-56-5B fan blade under an extended agreement with Snecma Services. The agreement covers restoration of the overall length ...

Investigators don’t yet know what caused the engine failure that forced Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 to an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Tuesday, but it has similarities to an incident with ...

The Federal Aviation Administration announced in the next two weeks it will require airlines to inspect the blades of CFM 56 engines for metal fatigue. This follows the incident aboard a Southwest 737 ...

With more than 17,000 CFM-56 engines in service internationally, CFM’s president Eric Bachelet is justifiably a happy man. Speaking to Flight Daily News just before the start of the show, Bachelet ...

Russia's largest private airline group S7 is closing its subsidiary S7 Space, which had developed expertise in repairing the high-pressure compressor blades in CFM56 engines. Parts of S7 Space will be ...