Engines
GE Runs Passport Engine on 100 Percent SAF
GE has run its Passport engine on 100 percent SAF and will the use engine to develop advanced technologies.
GE Aviation's Passport engine has achieved more than 80,000 flight hours and 30,000 cycles with better than a 99 percent dispatch reliability rate on the Global 7500 fleet. (Photo: GE Aviation)
GE Aviation's Passport engine has achieved more than 80,000 flight hours and 30,000 cycles with better than a 99 percent dispatch reliability rate on the Global 7500 fleet. (Photo: GE Aviation)

GE Aviation recently completed successful first testing of its Passport long-range business aviation engine using 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Ground testing was conducted with one engine over the course of two weeks in March at GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operations in southern Ohio.