SAFRAN : Messier-Bugatti-Dowty selected for loan, exchange and overhaul of landing gears on Qatar Airways Airbus aircraft
January 23, 2013 at 01:05 pm
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23.01.2013
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty selected for loan, exchange and overhaul of landing gears on Qatar Airways Airbus aircraft
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Dubai, January 23, 2013 - Qatar Airways has selected Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran) for the loan/exchange and overhaul of landing gear on all its Airbus fleet of A300-600, A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340-600 until 2021, representing over 60 shipsets.
The landing gears will be overhauled primarily through Messier-Bugatti-Dowty's repair stations in France and the UK.
This contract further establishes Messier-Bugatti-Dowty a MRO provider of choice in the region, and confirms its position of world leader in the MRO market for Airbus landing gear. Messier-Bugatti-Dowty's MRO division offers an unrivaled range of landing gear overhaul and customer support services. It calls on personalized monitoring of each landing gear leg and a large stock of replacement landing gear for all Airbus models, ready to be dispatched anywhere in the world through its global support network.
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Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (Safran group), is the world leader in aircraft landing and braking systems. Company capabilities encompass the full life cycle of our products, ranging from design and manufacture to in-service support, repair and overhaul. Messier-Bugatti-Dowty is a partner to 30 leading commercial, military, business and regional airframers, and supports more than 23,000 aircraft making over 35,000 landings every day. The company employs 6,500 staff working in locations across Europe, North America and Asia.
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty (groupe Safran)
Communications Department
Inovel Parc Sud
78 140 Vélizy-Villacoublay - France
www.safranmbd.com
Safran is a high technology international group, a leading equipment provider in the Aerospace and Defense markets. The group specializes in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of equipment and systems of high technology mechanical and electronic equipment. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- aeronautic and space propulsion systems (51.2%): helicopter motors (No. 1 worldwide), civil and military airplanes motors, systems for space lancers and missiles, turboreactors for drone targets, etc.;
- aircraft equipment, defense systems and aerosystems (38%): airplane engine pods, landing gear, braking systems, electric wiring systems, etc. Safran also offers on board aircraft systems and equipment (primarily evacuation slides, emergency arresting systems, protective parachutes and oxygen systems, electrical power management systems, control systems, water and waste management systems and connectivity systems) and defense and security systems (helicopter flight controls, fingerprint-based biometric identification systems (No. 1 worldwide), inertial systems, optronic systems, tactical drone systems, etc.);
- aircraft interiors (10.7%): cabin interiors and seats;
- other (0.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (19.4%), Europe (24%), the Americas (34.8%), Asia and Oceania (13.2%), Africa and the Middle East (8.6%).
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