Rolls-Royce celebrates delivery of 1,000th Trent XWB-84 engine

Rolls-Royce has celebrated reaching a key milestone after delivering its 1000th Trent XWB-84 engine.

The engine, which will power an Airbus A350-900, was built at the engineering giant’s state-of-the-art Production Test Facility, based at its civil aerospace site in Derby.

The Trent XWB-84, which is the world’s most efficient aero engine in service, is the latest in the Trent family to reach such a milestone and has done so faster than any of its predecessors.

Chris Cholerton, president of civil aerospace at Rolls-Royce, said: “Reaching this milestone is another great achievement for the Trent XWB-84, which is the most efficient aero engine in service.

“It is important to our customers to build ever more efficient fleets, and new-generation engines, like the Trent XWB-84 allow them to achieve this.”

Following its entry into service in 2015, the Trent XWB-84, quickly became the fastest selling large engine of all time.

It has now achieved more than eight million engine flying hours in service with more than 30 operators.

The Trent XWB-84 has a 15 per cent fuel consumption advantage over the first Trent engine, goes further on less fuel, and is quieter.

Rolls-Royce said the engine is also ready to operate on Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) as they become more available to airlines in the future.

In addition, the Trent XWB-84 has contributed to avoiding more than 10 million tonnes of CO2 since it launched in 2015 – the same amount of CO2 it takes to provide electricity to nearly two million homes each year.

Sebastian Resch, director of operations for civil aerospace at Rolls-Royce, said: “We take great pride in our state-of-the-art assembly line in Derby – where our highly-skilled colleagues have accumulated more than 7,500 years of assembly experience.

“To assemble 1,000 Trent XWB-84s has required more than 25 million parts brought together and more than 6,000 assembly steps per engine.

“This achievement is the result of the skills and dedication of our operations teams, with the strong support of our partners in the programme: GKN Aerospace, ITP Aero, Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, as well as our external supply chain.”

Mr Cholerton said: “We would like to thank everyone, including our customers, employees, partners and suppliers who have helped create the engine programme’s success.”