Engines
GE Readies for Leap Ramp-Up as Total Backlog Grows
GE and partners expect to build 2,800 engines this year
CFM Leap-1As account for more than half of the engines so far chosen by customers of the Airbus A320neo. (Photo: Airbus)
CFM Leap-1As account for more than half of the engines so far chosen by customers of the Airbus A320neo. (Photo: Airbus)

This month’s rollout of the first Airbus A320neo fitted with CFM Leap-1A engines marked a major milestone for GE Aviation, which, along with its CFM International partner Snecma, expects to build more than 1,600 CFM engines in all this year. The figure amounts to nearly a third of the 2,800 engines GE and its partners plan to build in 2015, compared with 2,600 units in 2013.