Composite Structures

Lightweight Composite Structural Components For Aircraft

General Dynamics produces lightweight composite structural components and integrated assemblies for a wide variety of aircraft applications. Our aircraft composite products include wing and fuselage structures, flight control surfaces, doors, engine structures and pressure vessels.

Wing Structures

General Dynamics has over 60 years of experience performing high quality engineering design and analysis for a wide variety of aircraft applications.

Composite structures provide weight reduction, impact absorption and product life extension. We are a leader in the design and production of aerospace composite structures and assemblies.

We produce wing structures for a wide range of commercial and military aircraft, including the following:

Edge Beams
Flap Leading and Trailing Edges
Flap Track Fairings
Wing Panels
Winglets

Fuselage Structures

We are a leader in producing affordable, high-quality composite fuselage structures for the commercial and military aerospace markets, including:

Canopy
Fairings
Pylons
Spars
Vertical Tail Skins

Doors

General Dynamics produces a wide variety of doors for commercial and military aircraft, including:

Avionics
Baggage
Emergency Exit
Landing Gear
Main Entrance
Service
Weapons Bay

US Air Force - C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft

Flight Control Surfaces

We also produce flight control surfaces for a wide range of commercial and military aircraft, including:

Rudders
Elevators
Flaps

Engine Structures

General Dynamics supports the aircraft gas-turbine engine industry with manufacturing solutions and parts production for a variety of advanced composite components. We specialize in highly complex assemblies, large structures and high temperature polyimides.