Safran Aircraft Engines

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Safran Aircraft Engines SAS
legal form Société par actions simplifiée
founding May 29, 1945
Seat Courcouronnes , France
management Olivier Andriès, CEO
Number of employees 15,700 (December 31, 2016)
sales € 8.1 billion (2016)
Branch Aerospace engineering ,
defense industry
Website safran-aircraft-engines.com

Safran Aircraft Engines (until 2015: Snecma ) is the leading French manufacturer of aircraft engines and rocket engines for space travel . The product portfolio ranges from small piston engines and jet engines to booster engines for Ariane rockets . The company, based in Courcouronnes in France , serves both the civil and military markets. In the 2016 financial year, it achieved sales of around 8 billion euros with around 15,700 employees. Safran Aircraft Engines is a subsidiary of Safran SA

history

Safran Aircraft Engines was founded as Snecma. Snecma's roots can be traced back to 1905, when the Seguin brothers founded the Société des Moteurs Gnome à Gennevilliers (Gnome engine company near Gennevilliers). In 1915 Gnome and the engine company Le Rhône merged. In 1945 the name SNECMA, Société nationale d'études et de constructions de moteurs d'aviation (National Society for the Development and Construction of Aircraft Engines) was introduced. The SNECMA Atar single-shaft jet engine was developed between 1945 and 1947 .

In 1974 General Electric and SNECMA founded CFM International . In 1990 the Rafale was equipped with an M88 Snecma engine, in 1999 the 10,000th CFM56 turbofan was delivered, which was first used for the KC-135 and is still used today in the A320 , A340-200 , Boeing 737 and the older DC- 8 is used. In 2005 the 15,000th CFM56 was delivered. In 2006 the "Silvercrest" project was started, which is intended for the motorization of business jets. In 2009 the 20,000th CFM56 engine was delivered. The collaboration with General Electric Aviation is expected to last until 2040.

Engines

Safran Aircraft Engines booth at EBACE 2018
Civil engines
engine Thrust (lbs) First run Number of pieces worldwide use
CFM56 18,500-34,000 1988 > 24,000 A320 , A340-200 , Boeing 737 , DC-8 , KC-135
LEAP 20,000-33,000 2013 (60) in test A320neo , Boeing 737MAX , Comac C919
PowerJet SaM146 13,500-17,800 (2009) - Sukhoi Superjet 100
Saffron Silvercrest 9,500-12,000 2012 - Falcon 5X , Cessna Citation Hemisphere
GE90 76,500-115,000 - - Boeing 777
General Electric CF6 -80 50,000-72,000 - 4200 Airbus A300 , Airbus A310 , Boeing 767 , Boeing 747
GP7200 70,000-85,000 - - Airbus A380

Through various partnerships with other manufacturers, for example General Electric , Safran Aircraft Engines is involved in many widely used engines. Snecma has a 50 percent stake in CFM International , the manufacturer of the widely used CFM56 engine. The Olympus 593 engine , which was built in collaboration between Snecma and Rolls-Royce , was used in the Concorde .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Our Company , safran-aircraft-engines.com, accessed November 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Registration Document 2016 Including the Annual Financial Report , safran-group.com, accessed November 21, 2017.