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GE Just Starting Bizav Engine Development Journey
With the Passport certified and flying and Catalyst approaching first flight, GE's engine boss looks to its bizav business ahead.
The 18,000-pound-thrust Passport entered service with Bombardier’s Global 7500 ultra-long-range business jet last December. (Photo: GE)
The 18,000-pound-thrust Passport entered service with Bombardier’s Global 7500 ultra-long-range business jet last December. (Photo: GE)

With a new turbofan entering service late last year and two other engines in development, it might seem like GE Aviation’s plan to expand into the business aviation market beginning a decade ago is now well underway. But that’s not how the executive leading that charge views it. “We are on a journey, and we are really at the start of that journey,” GE Aviation v-p and general manager of business, general aviation, and integrated systems Brad Mottier told AIN