​Metallic fan blades

Overview

GKN Aerospace leads the industry in fan blade manufacturing and repair capability. As a proven fan blade supplier, GKN Aerospace supplies fully finished solid and hollow fan blades to most all OEM’s. We have experience with supply chain management which is backed by our operational excellence. Our fan-blade overhaul site maintains or repairs over 50,000 fan blades a year from a wide range of operators and OEMs.

Advantages

• Low cost region manufacturing support facilities
• Proprietary fan blade repair procedures
• Vertically integrated for solid fan blades
• Blades up to 72 inches in length
• Wide-cord swept blades
• Solid and hollow blades

Aircraft deployed on

• Airbus A380 – Engine Alliance GP7200 hollow fan blades
• Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II (JSF) – F135 hollow fan blades
• Boeing B737 – CFM International CFM56-7B van blades
• Boeing B787 – GE Aviation CF6 fan blades
• Cessna Citation X – Rolls-Royce 3007 fan blades