CFM orders strong in 2015; LEAP engine surpasses 10,000 orders

2015 proved to be another strong year for CFM orders with the company booking a total of 2,135 engines, including 736 CFM56 engines (commercial, military and spares) and 1,399 LEAP engines (including spares). 2016 is already off to a good start, with nearly 600 engine orders received in January. At the same time, the LEAP engine has now surpassed 10,000 total engine orders and commitments (excluding options) at a value of $140 billion US at list price.

CFM continues to achieve historic production rates for the CFM56 product line with the company producing 1,638 CFM56 engines in 2015. CFM maintains the highest production rate in the industry and has consistently built more than 1,000 CFM56 engines per year since 2006.

“We are honored that airline customers around the world continue to show a preference for CFM engines,” said Jean-Paul Ebanga, president and CEO of CFM International. “The CFM56 family is still going strong and we believe LEAP orders raise even higher as our technology choices prove themselves out in the flight test programs at Airbus and Boeing.

“Our 2015 orders bring the current backlog to more than 13,400 engines and our biggest challenge now is building them all. To meet that challenge, GE and Snecma have invested nearly $1 billion US to date in new and upgraded facilities that incorporate today’s most advanced manufacturing technology. Our goal is to ensure that each new LEAP engine is delivered on time with the same level of quality and reliability our customers have come to expect from a CFM product.”

This year makes the start of the transition to LEAP engine production, with more than 140 units in the plan. The company expects to complete the transition by 2020 with an annual production rate of more than 2,000 engines. CFM will continue to build CFM56 spare engines for many years to support the in-service fleet and plans to produce spare parts for the programme until around the year 2045.