MESSIER-DOWTY DELIVERS FIRST 787 NOSE GEAR

Messier-Dowty has delivered the first production nose landing gear for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Messier-Dowty’s manufacturing facilities based in Gloucester UK, Montréal, Canada, Bidos, France and Suzhou, China are involved in the production of the 787 landing gears. The nose landing gear will be delivered to the Wichita facility for installation into the forward fuselage section of the aircraft. Once installed the whole assembly is transferred to Boeing Everett in Boeing’s Large Cargo Freighter (LCF). The next major delivery milestone for Messier-Dowty will be the first production main gear in April 2007.