MRO AND SUPPLY CHAIN
Landing gear overhaul capacity builds in South Asia as fleets age
A narrow specialism with long qualification lead times, and demand arriving faster than shops can approve.
Aerospace Garage desk
Landing gear overhaul is among the narrowest specialisms in the aftermarket, requiring plating lines, non-destructive testing and specialist machining under a single approval. South Asian shops are building that capability as regional narrowbody fleets reach first-overhaul intervals.
Qualification is the bottleneck. Approval covers specific gear part numbers, and each addition requires substantiation with the design authority plus environmental permits for the plating processes involved.
Operators currently ship gear to Europe or Southeast Asia, absorbing freight cost and transit weeks on a component that is heavy and awkward to move.
What to watch: environmental permitting for hard-chrome plating. It is the practical gate on new capacity, more binding than machining or inspection capability.
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