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World Record CF6 Engine Removed
From Power Plant Engineering: The world record breaking high time CF6 engine was removed from aircraft 393 at
DFW, hangar 5 on Wednesday, 30 April. The engine (S/N 690-375) was delivered new on B767-300 aircraft 393
back in May of 1998 and had accumulated 41,395 hours, 6,503 cycles and had never been removed. Bob Reding was
on site to recognize all those involved in helping to achieve this very significant milestone. Representatives from GE
Aircraft Engines presented Mr. Reding and American Airlines with a statue and plaque commemorating this new
world record. The engine will be returned to TUL for overhaul.

I know this only matters to the two of us, but I worked on that engine a time or two when it was younger. That old CF6 sure holds together a lot longer than an RB-211!

I did the acceptance check on that airplane at Boeing up in Everett. One of the engines was FODed out during a test flight and Boeing had to change it. I believe it was the right engine they changed. Wow...

Kind of like the old "engine stagger" program we did on the 757 acceptance checks, only Boeing did it and another new engine went on the pylon! Win win.