Advanced Equipments for Aircraft Maintenance and Assembly
Company | REEL SAS |
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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.