Air International 2017-07
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C.Kjelgaard - Swap You /Technology/
The GE Aviation TrueChoice Transitions pool occasionally includes older GE90s fitted to current-production widebodies such as the Boeing 777.
Numbers of CFM56-5BS (for Airbus A320-family aircraft) and CFM56-7BS (for Boeing 737NGs) for exchange are bound to grow substantially as more and more A320s and 737NGs are retired.
GE Aviation’s TrueChoice Transitions pool covers every major turbofan-engine model GE Aviation has made over the past 30 years, including CF6-50C2S. This CF6-50C2-powered Finnair Airbus A330-302 OH-LTT (msn 1088) is pictured departing Helsinki.
Most of the exchange engines CFM has in its current pool are older CFM56-3 variants as now-vintage Boeing 737-300s, 737-400S and 737-500S have been retired.
A P&WC PW150 for a Bombardier Q400. Pratt & Whitney Canada owns the largest rental pool of engines of any company, having positioned some 850 rental and exchange engines throughout the world.