General Electric’s F-15EX Engine Contract Includes 19 Powerplants
July 10, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
General Electric’s contract for the first tranche of F-15EX powerplants includes 19 engines, Air Force Materiel Command said July 9.
On June 30, the Air Force awarded GE $101.4 million for Boeing F-15EX engines, but didn’t reveal how many were included in the deal. AFMC now says the Lot 1 engine production contract includes 19 F110-GE-129A engines, including 16 to be installed and three spares. Each F-15EX needs two engines, and the engine directorate “used a 20 percent factor for spare engines.†The buy equips the first eight F-15EXs.
It was not uncommon during the 1980s and ’90s to use a 50 percent spare factor in contracts for F-15C/D and E engines but engine core reliability has climbed steadily since then. One industry expert said “they could probably even get away with a 10 percent†spare factor.
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