Engines
Snecma Silvercrest Schedule Slips into 2016
Flight testing taking place in San Antonio, Texas on a Gulfstream flying testbed.
The Silvercrest will power the Falcon 5X and the Citation Longitude.
The Silvercrest will power the Falcon 5X and the Citation Longitude.

The target certification date for the Snecma Silvercrest has slipped from 2015 to the first half of 2016, program general manager Eric Portejoie told AIN. The engines involved in the program have accumulated a combined 170 flight hours and 2,000 test hours on the ground. The tests have validated a number of operability and performance aspects, Portejoie said, including “the use on a new twin-engine aircraft.” The delay is due to how the tests have been sequenced, he said.


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