United States, Oct. 13 -- Representing another "rite of passage" in business aviation jet performance, GE Aerospace today announced it will ship its 500th Passport engine this month and has delivered the first certified engines for Bombardier's new Global 8000 business jet. The new engine will deliver higher thrust, translating to increased speed powering the Global 8000 to be the world's fastest business aircraft. Heard noted that the product support services for the Passport engine finished #1 again for the 4th year in a row in AIN's annual product support survey. This recognition is a testament to the Passport engine's incredible dispatchability rate of 99.9%. Dispatchability for an engine measures how reliably it allows for on-time depa...