Smolensk Aviation Plant

Smolensk Aviation Plant

The Smolensk Aviation Plant (SmAZ) is a Russian aircraft production and servicing company. Founded in 1926, since 1993 it has been a Joint stock company.

History

The facility was founded in 1926 as "Aviation Repair Plant No.3", in 1928 it was redesignated "Plant No.35". Between 1941 and 1944 it was relocated to Kuybyshev as part of "Plant No.1". Until 1966 it was known as "Plant No.475" of the NKAP ("Narodny Kommissariat Aviatsionnoi Promyshlennosti", People's Commissariat for Aviation Industry). It was renamed again in 1967 as the "Smolensk Machine Building Plant" of MAP ("Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoi Promyshlennosti", Ministry for the Aviation Industry). It received its current name in 1974. On 1 July 1993 it was privatized, and has since operated as a joint stock company.

List of production/serviced aircraft

*Grigorovich I-2 (actually full name was "I-7(I-2)") [http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/i2.html I-2 page]
*Polikarpov R-1, I-3, R-5, Po-2, I-15, I-16
*Tupolev TB-1/ANT-4, R-6/ANT-7, SB/ANT-40
*Bureau of Special Developments (БОК) of Chizhevski BOK-1 (stratospheric), BOK-5 (flying wing), BOK-7 (high altitude), BOK-15 (record setting)
*Ilyushin Il-2
*Lavochkin La-5, La-7
*Yakovlev Yak-3, Yak-7, Yak-9, Yak-11, Yak-18T, Yak-42, Yak-112
*Bakshaev A-2, VA-3/48, PM gliders
*Myasishchev M-55
*Technoavia SM92 Finist, SM-94-1, SM-2000, SP-55M (local development)
*Sukhoi Su-38

External links

* [http://www.smaz.ru/eng/index.php Smolensk Aviation Plant Company Website]
* [http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/industry/smaz.htm Federation of American Scientists]


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