Advanced Equipments for Aircraft Maintenance and Assembly

Company REEL SAS
Date 12.11.2012

REEL continued its excellence in designing, manufacturing and commissioning jigs & tools for wide-body aircraft Final Assembly Lines with the inauguration of the A350 XWB Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, France on this October 30th 2012 – an event that occurred 3 and a half years after the contract signature between Airbus and REEL, which put our company on track to becoming a world-leading manufacturer of aircraft assembly jigs.

Today’s event, in presence of the French Prime Minister, underscored the A350 XWB programme’s progress, as it spotlighted the build-up status in the final assembly hall for the jetliner’s first two airframes. 

The first is a static test airframe sized as an A350-900, and it is to be used for ground-based structural evaluations.  It is at the final assembly line’s Station 40 – with the complete fuselage assembled, along with installation of the wings and vertical tail plane. 

At the adjacent Station 50 is the no. 1 aircraft being built for flight – also an A350-900 version – with its fuselage already joined, and now ready for mating of the wings, as well as vertical and horizontal tail planes in the coming weeks.

Contact

Reel S.A.S
69 Rue de la Chaux
Saint-Cyr Au Mont d'Or
France
69450
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