So eventually my landing gear will go to a lucky new “in-service” aircraft, and I got a sneak peek at the process recently... One of the A320-200 just went through landing gear removal. The mechanics don’t remove the landing gears until they are sold, and the aircraft is positioned on the ramp for the "completion" phase of disassembly. During this process, the fuselage is lowered on cross-ties and the aircraft's parked permanently. Now it’s much easier with the A320, since it has only three landing gears – Left MLG, Right MLG, Nose LG. Those of us lucky wide-body 747s have 5 landing gears – 2 under each wing, rather than the standard narrow-body 1 per wing. It was really something to see… I tell you.
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