CFM56 Engine Fleet Surpasses One Billion Engine Flight Hours

Recently, the CFM56 fleet established a new world record by becoming the first aircraft engine family in aviation history to achieve one billion engine flight hours.

This milestone also represents the fastest accumulation on hours ever; the fleet reached 500 million hours in November 2010 and more than doubled that total in just over eight years.

• One billion hours equates to nearly 115,000 years.
• CFM56 engines have carried more than 35 billion people. That’s like flying the world’s entire population of seven billion people five times over.
• The fleet has flown more than 200 billion miles. That equates to flying around the world more than eight million times. Or flying to Pluto and back 20 times. It’s more than 400,000 round trips to the moon.