General Electric J97

The General Electric J97 is a single-shaft turbojet engine designed and built by General Electric as a compact high-performance engine for light attack fighters and eventually a number of drone projects.

Development and design
The J97 was based on GE's General Electric GE1/J1 series of turbojets and the engine development was financed by the United States Air Force. The original application was to be the Northrop P-530 (which later evolved into the YF-17), but it was ultimately only used in several small drone aircraft.

Variants

 * J97-GE-100
 * Standard Variant
 * J97-GE-17
 * Variant of the engine with 11760 lbf of thrust proposed for use in the Super Dynamics O4-1B Robin supersonic business jet.

Applications



 * Boeing YQM-94 B-Gull (Compass Cope B)
 * Ryan AQM-91 Firefly