with dowty rotol . safran landing systems previously messier bugatti dowty type subsidiary industry aerospace defence founded 2011 headquarters v lizy france key people vincent mascr ceo gilles bouctot coo 1 products aircraft landing gear wheels and brakes 2 revenue 4.943 billion 2015 3 operating income 466 million net income 423 million number of employees 7 000 4 parent safran sa website www.safran landing systems.com safran landing systems formerly messier bugatti dowty is a company involved in the design development manufacture and customer support of all types of aircraft landing gear wheels and brakes and a wholly owned subsidiary of safran sa . it is the world s largest manufacturer of aircraft landing gear . 5 the company projects are divided into two business units airbus & european programs and boeing & north american programs . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the origins of the company date back to the formation of a 50 50 joint venture between the france based messier and the united kingdom based dowty group then owned by ti group in 1995 . messier dowty was purchased outright by the snecma group in 1998 . the 2005 merger of sagem and snecma made messier dowty part of the new safran company . in march 2010 messier dowty opened a new undercarriage components factory in quer taro mexico . 6 in may 2011 messier bugatti dowty was formed through the merger of three safran subsidiaries messier dowty messier bugatti and messier services . 7 in may 2016 messier bugatti dowty became safran landing systems . operations edit landing gear for the airbus a400m safran landing systems has operational sites across the globe . the sites are located in asia singapore seremban suzhou europe v lizy molsheim bidos villeurbanne gloucester canada ajax montreal mexico quer taro and united states walton seattle . the main headquarters is located in v lizy 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 . molsheim wheels manufacturing special processing assembly equipment and mro montreal manufacturing heat treatment special processing and assembly equipment quer taro 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 . ajax ontario 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 . seremban carbon brake manufacturing 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 villeurbanne carbon brake manufacturing walton carbon brake manufacturing see also edit george dowty dowty group references edit ceo & coo . messier bugatti dowty . retrieved 24 february 2012 . activities . messier bugatti dowty . retrieved 24 february 2012 . pdf . safran sa http www.safran group.com file download fy 2015 results eng vdef.pdf . retrieved 19 april 2016 . missing or empty title help worldwide presence . messier bugatti dowty . retrieved 24 february 2016 . safran messier dowty landing gear unit set to benefit from widebody demand . bloomberg . 23 september 2010 . retrieved 24 february 2012 . mexico eyes aerospace growth as safran opens plants . reuters . 24 september 2010 . retrieved 18 march 2010 . about the merger . messier bugatti dowty . retrieved 24 february 2012 . external links edit messier bugatti dowty official site british messier a 1954 flight advertisement illustrating the undercarriage supplied for the bristol britannia v t e messier bugatti dowty companies dowty group safran snecma 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