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GE Aviation marks anniversary of Peebles operations with expansion

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Nov 19, 2014
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Jet engine maker GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operation celebrated this month 60 years of operation with the opening of a new $40 million indoor jet engine test facility.

The new indoor test facility, which will begin testing production engines by year-end, was built to accommodate the growing volume of GE90 and GEnx engines as well as the new GE9X and LEAP engines. It is the 11 test site at the 7,000-acre Peebles Test Operation, located near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in southeastern Ohio, according to GE.

The Peebles Test Operation began as a GE rocket engine test facility in 1954.

“Since 2006, GE has invested more than $160 million in facilities expansion at Peebles to manage our growing volume of development engine and production engine testing as well as final engine assembly of GE90 and GEnx engines,” said Brian De Bruin, plant leader at GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operation, in a statement.

“This year, the Peebles site will test 1,600 production engines along with 70 development engines and will assemble and ship more than 500 engines from our assembly area thanks to the efforts our 340 employees,” De Bruin said.

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