Liebherr LAMC Aviation (Changsha), the joint venture between the Chinese company LAMC (AVIC Landing Gear Advanced Manufacturing) and German-based Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg, has delivered the 100th landing gear strut from Changsha for COMAC’s twin-engine ARJ21 regional jet program.
Since the first delivery ceremony for the ARJ21’s landing gear struts took place in 2016, a lot has happened at Liebherr LAMC Aviation (Changsha). The successful joint venture is not only celebrating the milestone of the 100th landing gear strut delivered to COMAC, but it is also on course to ramp up production to 90 landing gears struts per year by 2020.
In addition to the ARJ21 program, LLA is also home to the assembly line for COMAC’s narrow-body twinjet C919 landing gear struts. The ceremony for the first delivery of the C919 landing gear strut for flight test aircraft 104 from this facility occurred in 2018. The company is set to ramp up production to 145 landing gear struts per year by 2025, and its first delivery of two ship-sets (or six struts) for series production is scheduled for the second quarter of 2020. COMAC plans to deliver the first C919 to its customer in 2021.
