A-320 undercarriage

[f1yboy]

All of the A-320s I know of, have one wheel on each side of the the main undercarriage. I was reading the march 2008 edition of airliner world, and in the middle of pg 22, there is an A-320 that has two wheels on each side. Why is this? I know that Jetstar and any other A-320 operator that I've seen only have one wheel. The aircraft registration is VT-EPK. You can search it on airliner.net and you will notice what I'm saying.

I hope this isn't a stupid question.
Thanks in advance.

[Dream Land]

Air India operates A320's like that.

[f1yboy]

Is this because it's an earlier model A-320? I noticed that the particular aircraft that I spoke about has a c/n of 058.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

Air India brought their first batch of A320s with 4 wheel main gears, designed for l believe poor condition runways.
They are the only ones that brought this configuration.

[saman]

I don't want to be a pedant but it was Indian Airlines - rather than Ar India - that bought the (only) fleet of A320s with the 4-wheel bogie gear. It was to meet the needs of the low-bearing-strength secondary Indian airfields of that time - most now strengthened and upgraded.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

Well spotted "saman" l also should have noticed the mistake.
Thanks for the runway reason, l could not remember exactly what the runway condition was.:ok:

[f1yboy]

Thanks guys, I didn't know that. I wonder how easy it was to configure the aircraft to have that set up.