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Engine made by Derby鈥檚 Rolls-Royce smashes reliability world record

The Trent 700 engine has flown the equivalent of 50 times to the Moon and back

The world record-breaking Trent 700 engine made by Rolls-Royce powers an Aeroflot A330(Image: Rolls-Royce plc)

Derby’s Rolls-Royce is celebrating after one of its engines smashed a world record for reliability.

One of the engineering giant’s Trent 700 engines, which is in service with Russian airline Aeroflot, has completed more than 50,000 flying hours without requiring an overhaul - a world record for a wide-body engine.

The engine first entered service in 2008 and is still going strong today, powering an Airbus A330 aircraft.

According to Rolls-Royce, the distance flown by the engine is the equivalent of travelling around the world more than 1,000 times - or to the moon and back 50 times.

And in terms of hours flown, it has operated for the equivalent of more than five years non-stop.

The engine first entered into service more than a decade ago(Image: Rolls-Royce plc)

The Trent 700 was designed and developed at Rolls-Royce’s civil aerospace site in Derby. Now built at the firm’s Sinfin site, it first entered into service in 1995.

Andrey Panov, deputy chief executive for strategy and marketing at Aeroflot, said: “We are very pleased with the reliability of the Trent 700 overall and this engine in particular.

Aeroflot said it was pleased with the overall reliability of the Trent 700(Image: Rolls-Royce plc)

“We’ve worked closely with Rolls-Royce to continually monitor the engine to make sure it has been in good condition and it has provided an outstanding level of reliability for us.”