Few engines have left as significant a mark on commercial aviation as the legendary Rolls-Royce RB211. But why is it so important in aviation history? Born from a high-stakes contract in the late ...

Azerbaijan’s Silk Way West Airlines has reached an agreement with Rolls-Royce under which the manufacturer will supply replacement engines for the cargo carrier’s RB211-powered Boeing 747 fleet. The ...

Here's Rolls-Royce's original 'big daddy' - the RB211 - built in the 1960s for wide-bodied airliners. It was also the engine that led to the company being taken into state ownership in 1971 due to the ...

Wood Dale, Illinois, March 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AAR CORP. (NYSE: AIR), a leading provider of aviation services to commercial and government operators, MROs, and OEMs, announced its subsidiary ...

CAAC's nod clears the way for StandardAero to support Chinese operators of the Boeing 757. A total of 70 Boeing 757s are operated by Chinese carriers, representing about 20 percent of the in-service ...

9 June 2010 – Rolls-Royce announced at POWER-GEN Europe, the launch of the latest addition to its range of industrial gas turbines, the H63. Delivering 11 MW more power but in the same footprint as ...

The RB211 program bankrupted Rolls-Royce, forcing the U.K. government to step in and save the project and the company. Both recovered—Rolls-Royce is still delivering and developing engines, and the ...

Rolls-Royce has recruited US maintenance specialist StandardAero as a support provider for the RB211-535E4 engines which power Boeing 757s. The UK engine maker says that StandardAero’s facility in San ...

StandardAero has signed a Letter of Intent with Rolls-Royce to provide engine MRO services for the RB211-535E4 programme for the life of the engine type. This award designates StandardAero as the ...

Click to open image viewer. This is the first foreign-made engine chosen as the basic power plant for a major U.S.-built airliner, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, receiving its certification from the ...

The safety regulator CASA is understood to be reviewing a series of in flight failures by Rolls-Royce RB211 engines mounted on Qantas Boeing 747-400s following the latest incident last weekend which ...