diff --git a/tests/unittests/tiglWingGuideCurves.cpp b/tests/unittests/tiglWingGuideCurves.cpp
index ecf86868b..572843840 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/tiglWingGuideCurves.cpp
+++ b/tests/unittests/tiglWingGuideCurves.cpp
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include "CCPACSGuideCurveAlgo.h"
 #include "CCPACSWingSegment.h"
 #include "tiglcommonfunctions.h"
+#include "CTiglWingSegmentGuidecurveBuilder.h"
 
 /******************************************************************************/
 
@@ -457,3 +458,44 @@ TEST_F(WingGuideCurve, tiglWingGuideCurve_CCPACSWingSegment)
         ASSERT_NEAR(predictedPoint.Z(), point.Z(), 1E-14);
     }
 }
+
+TEST_F(WingGuideCurve, bug975)
+{
+    //https://github.com/DLR-SC/tigl/issues/975
+
+    tigl::CCPACSConfigurationManager& manager = tigl::CCPACSConfigurationManager::GetInstance();
+    tigl::CCPACSConfiguration& config = manager.GetConfiguration(tiglHandle);
+    tigl::CCPACSWing& wing = config.GetWing(1);
+
+
+    tigl::CCPACSWingSegment& segment1 = wing.GetSegment(1);
+    tigl::CTiglWingSegmentGuidecurveBuilder builder(segment1);
+
+    auto const& guideCurves = segment1.GetGuideCurves();
+    if(guideCurves) {
+        tigl::CCPACSGuideCurve const& guidecurve = guideCurves->GetGuideCurve(1);
+        auto points_before = builder.BuildGuideCurvePnts(&guidecurve);
+
+        tigl::CCPACSTransformation& trafo = wing.GetTransformation();
+        trafo.setRotation(tigl::CTiglPoint(0, 90, 0));
+        wing.SetTransformation(trafo);
+        tigl::CTiglTransformation const& wingTrafo = wing.GetTransformationMatrix();
+
+        auto points_after = builder.BuildGuideCurvePnts(&guidecurve);
+        int idx = 0;
+        for (auto const& p : points_after) {
+
+            // per design, the guide curve should have a zero x-component
+            EXPECT_NEAR(p.X(), 0.0, 1e-12);
+
+            // transforming the guide curve points of the untransformed wing should
+            // yield the same points as building the points after transforming the wing
+            gp_Pnt pt = wingTrafo.Transform(points_before[idx++]);
+            EXPECT_NEAR(p.X(), pt.X(), 1e-12);
+            EXPECT_NEAR(p.Y(), pt.Y(), 1e-12);
+            EXPECT_NEAR(p.Z(), pt.Z(), 1e-12);
+
+        }
+    }
+
+}