GE to Supply Engines to Aeroflot: General...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
GE to Supply Engines to Aeroflot: General Electric Co. announced an agreement to supply aircraft engines to the Soviet Union’s Aeroflot, the world’s biggest airline. The government-owned airline placed five firm orders and five options for jet engines valued at about $150 million to power Airbus Industrie A310-300 aircraft, GE announced. The CF6-80C2 GE engines, and the planes, would be the first made in the West to be incorporated in Aeroflot’s fleet of more than 3,000 planes.
