Meggitt has extended its contract to supply GE Aviation with valves, sensors and heat exchangers for engines over the next five years. The deal value was described only as multimillion-dollar.
GE Aviation in Evendale, Ohio, was awarded a maximum $79,702,840 contract to support F110-GE-100 aircraft engine production for the US and Egyptian air forces, according to the Department of Defense.
Safran Aircraft Engines will build a new plant in Hyderabad's GMR Special Economic Zone to make parts for the CFM LEAP turbofan engine, with a €36 million investment supported by the Telangana State. Construction starts June 2019, with first parts planned for early 2020 and a workforce of 300.
GE was awarded a $437 million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for next-generation adaptive propulsion risk reduction work on adaptive cycle engines. The award was made June 29, 2018 and announced July 6, 2018.
GE Aviation will create 15 full-time jobs over four years at its West Jefferson plant, which added a 90,000-square-foot expansion, as announced by Governor Roy Cooper's office.
SIA Engineering Company and GE Aviation signed a joint venture, 51% owned by GE and 49% by SIAEC, to form an engine overhaul company based in Singapore for GE90 and GE9X engines.
The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command awarded GE Aviation a $143,481,258 Low-Rate Initial Production contract to build 22 T408-GE-400 engines for the U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The contract was announced on November 20, 2017.
GE Aviation has agreed to form a new engine overhaul joint venture with SIA Engineering Company, to be based in Singapore, offering MRO services for the GE90 and GE9X engines.