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CF34 Success Story Continues With 'Largest Ever' Sale of Canadair Regional Jets

March 02, 1999

LYNN, Massachusetts - The unrivaled success of GE's CF34 engine program, which last year generated more than $1.5 billion worth of firm and option engine orders, is further bolstered by Bombardier Aerospace's recently announced "largest ever" single sale of its Canadair Regional Jet( (CRJ) to Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Northwest ordered 54 CRJ Series 200LR regional airliners and took options on 70 more, all powered by CF34-3 series engines, with engines worth more than $500 million. This closely follows Skywest Airlines' order last month for 25 firm and 25 option CRJs with engines worth more than $200 million.

"We are very pleased to have Northwest Airlines as a CF34 customer. We appreciate their confidence in our engine and support team. Northwest and its Northwest Airlink affiliates are major operators of our CFM56, CF6 and CT7 engines, and we look forward to working with them in this expanded relationship," said Frank Klaus, general manager of Small Commercial Engines for GE Aircraft Engines.

Bombardier's 50-passenger CRJ Series 100/200 regional jets are powered exclusively by the CF34-3 engine. In addition, their new 70-passenger CRJ Series 700 regional jets will be powered by the more powerful CF34-8 engine, which has also been selected by Fairchild Aerospace to power its new family of 50- to 90-passenger airliners.

Firm and option orders for the entire CRJ family now stand at 1,006 units, representing more than 2,000 CF34 engines valued at approximately $4 billion. The CF34 engine production rate will grow from 238 this year to nearly 300 units in the year 2000.