Casing and front landing gear assembly for an aircraft

A casing and front landing gear assembly for an aircraft, including a front landing gear casing and

• a front landing gear comprising wheels, a rod and a mechanism for deployment/retraction, the assembly comprising:
• the front landing gear casing comprises a wall defining an internal housing open on the bottom in order to allow the retraction of a corresponding front landing gear into the interior of the housing and its deployment outside the housing, the wall separating the non-pressurized internal housing from a surrounding pressurized zone of the aircraft,
• a reinforcement structure is provided around the wall on the side of the surrounding pressurized zone,
• the separation wall is a shell coming to envelop the shape of the front landing gear, on the side opposite the opening of the internal housing,
• the reinforcement structure includes longitudinal reinforcement elements extending on both sides of the shell and transverse reinforcement elements connecting the longitudinal reinforcement elements,
• the shell has two areas:
• a front area of considerable height accommodating the wheels of the front landing gear in retracted position,
• a rear area of lesser height accommodating the rod and a portion of the mechanism for deployment/retraction of the front landing gear in the retracted position, and above which there extends at least one transverse reinforcement element, making it possible to provide a support for an item of equipment of the aircraft.