The General Electric CJ610 is a non-afterburning

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engine derived from the military J85, and is used on a number of civilian business jets. The model has logged over 16.5 million hours of operation. Civilian versions have powered

business jet A business jet, private jet, or bizjet is a jet aircraft designed for transporting small groups of people. Business jets may be adapted for other roles, such as the evacuation of casualties or express parcel deliveries, and some are used by pu ...

s such as the Learjet 23 and the Hamburger Flugzeugbau

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. The engines are also used in the flyable

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reproductions built by the

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in the United States. A development, the CF700, added a rear-mounted fan mounted directly on the free-running low-pressure turbine.

Variants

;CJ610-1: thrust ;CJ610-2B: thrust ;CJ610-4: thrust ;CJ610-6: thrust ;CJ610-8A: thrust ;CJ610-9: thrust

Applications

Aero Commander 1121 Jet Commander, Private JP5962515

Aero Commander 1121 Jet Commander The IAI Westwind is a business jet initially produced by Aero Commander as the 1121 Jet Commander. Powered by twin GE CJ610 turbojets, it first flew on January 27, 1963, and received its type certification on November 4, 1964, before the first ...

* Learjet 23 *

Learjet 24 The Learjet 24 is an American six-to-eight-seat (two crew and four to six passengers) twin-engine, high-speed business jet, which was manufactured by Learjet as the successor to the Learjet 23. History The Learjet 24 was designed as an improve ...

Learjet 25 The Learjet 25 is an American ten-seat (two crew and eight passengers), twin-engine, high-speed business jet aircraft manufactured by Learjet. It is a stretched version of the Learjet 24. Development The first Model 25 flew on August 12, 1 ...

Learjet 28 The Learjet 28 is an American eight-to-ten-seat (two crew and six to eight passengers), twin-engine, high-speed business jet, intended to be the successor to the Learjet 25. The Learjet 29 is identical except for the addition of a long-range fuel ...

Margański & Mysłowski EM-10 Bielik The Margański & Mysłowski EM-10 Bielik ( en, white-tailed eagle) is a low-cost Polish military training aircraft prototype, built by Margański & Mysłowski Zakłady Lotnicze, and first flown on 4 June 2003. The single-engine aircraft has a ...

replicas A-1c and B-1c.The "c" suffix stands for the flyable reproductions equipped with the J85-derived CJ610 engine instead of the original Junkers Jumo 004 jet engine. *

Transall C-160 The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is an abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale, and ...

(APU) * Viper Aircraft Viperjet MKII

Other

* Screaming Sasquatch Jet Waco Biplane * Yak 110

Specifications (CJ610-9)

References

* * Taylor, John W.R. ''Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1972-73.'', London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company Ltd, 1972. ISBN 354-00109-4.

External links

GE CJ610 web page
{{Aeroengine-specs 1960s turbojet engines