Undercarriage arrangements

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Below are featured the undercarriage (or landing gear) arrangements of several modern commercial jet airliners and large military aircraft.

[edit] Types of undercarriage bogies

Here are some of the most standard and recognizable bogie types encountered on most modern aircraft. The colum on the right shows the symbol associated to each bogie type as used in the representations of various planes' specific undercarriage arrangements, further down in this article.

Bogie type	Example	Photo	Symbol
2-wheel, single-axle	Airbus A380's nose wheel
4-wheel, double-axle	Airbus A330's main landing gear
6-wheel, triple-axle	Boeing 777's main landing gear

The images below show oulined representations of how the undercarriage bogies are arranged under the planes' front and center sections and with how many wheels each.