Undercarriage Arrangements
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undercarriage Undercarriage is the part of a moving vehicle that is underneath the main body of the vehicle. The term originally applied to this part of a horse-drawn carriage, and usage has since broadened to include: *The landing gear of an aircraft. *The ch ...
(also called landing gear) arrangements of some modern commercial
jet airliner A jet airliner or jetliner is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft). Airliners usually have twinjet, two or quadjet, four jet engines; trijet, three-engined designs were popular in the 1970s but are less common today. Air ...
s and large
military aircraft A military aircraft is any Fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing or rotorcraft, rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary military of any type. Some military aircraft engage directly in aerial warfare, while others take on su ...
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Types of wheeled units

This table shows the main types of individual, basic wheeled units (single-wheel unit or
bogie A bogie ( ) (or truck in North American English) comprises two or more Wheelset (rail transport), wheelsets (two Railroad wheel, wheels on an axle), in a frame, attached under a vehicle by a pivot. Bogies take various forms in various modes ...
s composed of multiple wheels) used on most aircraft undercarriages. The tables below show how various types of wheeled units are arranged to form the undercarriages of some popular aircraft from manufacturers
Antonov Antonov (d/b/a Antonov Company, formerly the Aeronautical Scientific-Technical Complex named after Antonov or Antonov ASTC, and earlier the Antonov Design Bureau, for its chief designer, Oleg Antonov) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and ...
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Airbus Airbus SE ( ; ; ; ) is a Pan-European aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate Airbus Defence and Space, defence and space and Airbus Helicopters, he ...
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Boeing The Boeing Company, or simply Boeing (), is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support s ...
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, 727,
737 737 most commonly refers to: * Boeing 737, an American narrow-body passenger airplane ** Boeing 737 Original ** Boeing 737 Classic ** Boeing 737 Next Generation ** Boeing 737 MAX The Boeing 737 MAX is a series of narrow-body aircraft devel ...
, , 6 wheels
x2 x2, , , , , , - ,
747 747 may refer to: * 747 (number), a composite number * AD 747, a year of the Julian calendar * 747 BC, a year in the 8th century BC * Boeing 747, a large commercial plane Arts and media * 747s (band), an indie band * ''747'' (album), by country m ...
, , 18 wheels
x2 x4, , , , , , - ,
707 707 may refer to: * 707 (number), a number * 707 (band), an American rock band * AD 707, a year in the 8th century * 707 BC, a year in the 8th century BC * The 7 July 2005 London bombings, a terrorist attack * 707th Special Mission Unit, a mili ...
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757 757 may refer to:575 * Boeing 757, a narrow-body airliner * AD 757, a year * 757 BC, a year * 757 (number), a number * Area code 757, a North American telephone dialling code * "757", a song by 100 gecs from ''10,000 gecs'' * The 757, a nickname fo ...
, 767,
787 787 may refer to: In general * 787 (number), an integer, a number in the 700s * AD 787, a year in the Common Era * 787 BC, a year Before the Common Era Places * Area code 787, for telephones in Puerto Rico under the North American Numbering Pl ...
, , 10 wheels
x2 x4, , , , , , - ,
777 777 may refer to: * 777 (number), a number * AD 777, a year of the Julian calendar * 777 BC, a year in the 8th century BC * Boeing 777, a commercial jet airliner :* Boeing 777X, the newer generation of the Boeing 777 Art and entertainment Alb ...
, , 14 wheels
x2 x6, , , , , , - ,
B-52 Stratofortress The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic aircraft, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the ...
, , 8 main wheels plus 2 outrigger wheels
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