Rolls-Royce Aero Engines

[Andy Zarse]

Google isn't my friend on this one...

Does anyone have a link to information regarding recent annual production figures for RR aero engines? Hopefully this should be broken down into the different divisions, aero/marine/joint ventures such as the V engines for Airbus A320 etc.

Any help gratefully received!

[Mave]

Andy Zarse said:

Google isn't my friend on this one...

Does anyone have a link to information regarding recent annual production figures for RR aero engines? Hopefully this should be broken down into the different divisions, aero/marine/joint ventures such as the V engines for Airbus A320 etc.

Any help gratefully received!

Might be worth looking out for the annual results in a few days (Friday?), but you might not get the info you want; depends on the context. Approx 50% turnover is spares rather than OEM, do you REALLY want number of engines sold (and do you want sold, delivered or paid for), leased, repaired? And the V2500 isn't a JV anymore IIRC.

[951TSE]

Might it be worth dropping their press office an email to see if they can help? As you say not much on the web. Their website tends to talk about order value rather than numbers of items.

The streaming banner on their website http://www.rolls-royce.com/ sort of has the info but not annual production, just numbers of how many of their products are currently in use.

The only info that get's even close to how many is a press release about an order.
http://www.rolls-royce.com/news/press_releases/201...

This says a £140m pound order which is to power 3 Airbus A330's so as a A330 is a twin that would be 6 engines. You could then look at turnover in the civil division to get a rough idea? Then use the same trick for the other divisions.

[Mave]

951TSE said:

Might it be worth dropping their press office an email to see if they can help? As you say not much on the web. Their website tends to talk about order value rather than numbers of items.

The streaming banner on their website http://www.rolls-royce.com/ sort of has the info but not annual production, just numbers of how many of their products are currently in use.

The only info that get's even close to how many is a press release about an order.
http://www.rolls-royce.com/news/press_releases/201...

This says a £140m pound order which is to power 3 Airbus A330's so as a A330 is a twin that would be 6 engines. You could then look at turnover in the civil division to get a rough idea? Then use the same trick for the other divisions.

The problem is, that could be 6 OEM engines, or 6 engines + 6 spares, or 6 lease engines, or 6 refurbishments - without context, it's hard to advise how to get the data.

[mcdjl]

Roughly 50-60% of the business is aero engines, with the rest being a mix of marine propulsion, civil power and nuclear. They say that killing an engine for a test costs about £10-15 million a time.

[cpufreak]

They say that engines make up for around 20% of the list price of a typical airliner…

Wikipedia pages for most Airbus and boeing planes break down the order between engine manufacturer, so that'd get you most of the big jets


private jets would be harder I guess.

[Geneve]

I'm assuming the Rolls Royce M250 Turboshaft is their most successful aero engine.

Some 32,000 have been built, with more than half still in service, for use in turboprops and light turbine helicopters.

[hidetheelephants]

Geneve said:

I'm assuming the Rolls Royce M250 Turboshaft is their most successful aero engine.

Some 32,000 have been built, with more than half still in service, for use in turboprops and light turbine helicopters.

Not really RR's though is it? It's no more an RR product than the Olympus; they just ponied up the dough to buy the company.

[mcdjl]

Their next figures are due Friday, you may have more luck then!

[Andy Zarse]

Thanks for the comments guys!