According to the Guinness Book of Records, at , the engine held the record for the highest thrust achieved by an aircraft engine (the maximum thrust for the engine in service is its rated thrust ). This thrust record was reached inadvertently as part of a one-hour, triple-red-line engine stress test using a GE90-115B development engine at GE Aviations' Peebles Test Operation, which is an outdoor test complex near Peebles, Ohio. It eclipsed the engine's previous Guinness world record of .
