Under the wings of the Boeing 777 family of aircraft, GE Aviation’s huge GE90 engine recently surpassed 100 million flight hours, and in November the aircraft engine will mark 25 years in service.

This flight time equates to nearly 11,500 years of flying covering a distance of 55,726,866,160 miles (the equivalent of 199 round-trips to Mars). Moreover, about 2.5 billion passengers have flown on GE90-powered Boeing 777s.

Since entering service in 1995, GE has delivered more than 2,800 GE90-94B and upgraded GE90-115B engines to 70 operators around the world. The GE90 engine family powers all Boeing 777 models and is the exclusive powerplant on the 777-300, -200, and 777F.

Furthermore, the engine’s architecture and mechanical design have influenced every GE and CFM turbofan over the last 20 years, from the popular GEnx and record-selling CFM LEAP engine to the Passport for corporate jets and the next-generation GE9X engine for the Boeing 777X.

At 127,900 pounds of thrust, the GE90-115B held the world record for 13 years, and GE90 engines powered a Boeing 777-200LR during what was once the world’s longest flight by a commercial airliner — 13,422 miles in 22hr 42min, flying from Hong Kong to London “the long way” (over the Pacific, over the USA then over the Atlantic Ocean to London).

The GE90 was also the first commercial jet engine to enter service with composite fan blades and inward opening bleed doors.

More information about the GE90 engine can be found at the Web site: (www.geaviation.com/commercial/engines/ge90-engine).