- Messier-Dowty
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Messier-Dowty Type Private Industry Aerospace & Defence Headquarters Vélizy, France (1994) Products Civil & military landing gears Revenue €738 million (2006) Employees 4,300 Parent SAFRAN SA Website http://www.messier-dowty.com 
Landing gear for the Airbus A400M
Messier-Dowty is a company involved in the design, development, manufacture and customer support of all types of aircraft landing gear. The company projects are divided into two business units: Airbus & European Programs and Boeing & North American Programs.
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History
The Company was formed in 1995 as a 50/50 joint venture between Messier, a French company and Dowty Group, then owned by TI Group. Messier-Dowty was purchased outright by the SNECMA group in 1998. Messier-Dowty is now part of the SAFRAN group. SAFRAN is a French aerospace/communications group which was created as the result of a merger between SAGEM and SNECMA. SAFRAN is known for businesses in aerospace propulsion, aircraft equipment, defense security and communications.
Sites
Messier-Dowty has operational sites across the globe. The sites are located in Asia (Singapore, Suzhou), Europe (Vélizy, Bidos, Gloucester), Canada (Toronto, Montreal), Mexico (Queretaro) and United States (Seattle). The main headquarters is located in Vélizy, outside Paris. Each site is responsible for certain aspects of landing gear design, manufacture and support.
- Bidos: responsible for the production of large components (bogies, main fittings, integral axles) for large commercial, business, commuter aircraft and helicopter gears.
- Gloucester: Design, research and systems integration together with manufacturing capability. This site is focused on the manufacture of complex major structural components such as main fittings and bogies for large commercial aircraft together with main fittings and large components for military and commuter aircraft platforms. The Gloucester site is also home to one of the largest landing gear test facilities in the western world, capable of the structural and systems testing of large commercial landing gears.
- Montreal: manufacturing, heat treatment, special processing and assembly equipment
- Querétaro: manufacturing of major landing gear components for: A320 main landing gear fitting, A330 main landing gear bogie beam and B787 nose landing gear inner cylinder.
- Toronto: design and development of fully integrated landing gear systems. It also focuses on ancillary systems such as steering control, landing gear control and indication, emergency control, brake control, wheels, brakes, tires, door mechanisms and electrical harnesses. This site is the final assembly area where landing gear systems for many aircraft are fully assembled and tested before shipping to the customer. It has test facilities for development and certification.
- Seattle: engineering and manufacturing site, focusing on the Boeing 787. The office provides Engineering and Program support to the 787 program, while the manufacturing facility final-assembles the 787 Main Landing Gears.
- Suzhou: manufacturing landing gear components of medium size for business and regional jet programs
- Singapore: procurement and customer support base for the Asia Pacific region
See also
External links
Categories:- Aerospace companies of France
- Companies established in 1994
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