Moscow Aircraft Production Association

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MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association (Russian: Московское авиационное производственное объединение, romanized: Moskovskoye aviatsionnoye proizvodstvennoye obyedineniye) was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer.

History[]

MAPO has its origins in Plant #30 of the Dux Factory company.[1] Plant #30 was established in 1939 in Dubna.[2] In December 1941, it was relocated to the former site of Plant #1, where it manufactured the Ilyushin Il-2.[2] In 1950, it merged with Plant #381, to produce the Il-28 in larger volumes.[2] In 1953, was established as a subsidiary of the plant.[3]

Plant #30 became known as the Znamya Truda Machine-Building Plant in 1965,[4] and as the Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation in 1973.[2]

In the early 1990s, it employed 30,000 workers.[5] In 1995, MAPO was merged with the Mikoyan Design Bureau, forming MAPO-MiG.[6] In January 1996, a decree of President Boris Yeltsin established MAPO VPK, which combined 12 different aviation companies, including MAPO-MiG, Kamov, Klimov, the and .[6]

Unlike Sukhoi, which managed to secure export contracts with China and India, MAPO continued to be unprofitable throughout the 1990s.[7] In December 1999, MAPO was renamed Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG.[8]

In 2006, MAPO merged with Sukhoi and several other Russian aviation companies to form United Aircraft Corporation.[9] The majority of MAPO's former assets are now part of Mikoyan.[9]

The Lukhovitsy and Znamya Truda plants are currently known as 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №1' (ПК №1 PCK «МиГ») and 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №2' (ПК №2 PCK «МиГ»), respectively.[10][11]

Names[]

Over the years, it has also been known as OSOAVIAKHIM Plant #1, GAZ No. 1, Menjinski Plant #39, Orjonikidze Plant #381, Plant #30, MMZ (Moscow Machine-Building Plant) "Znamya Truda" (Banner of Labor), P.A. Voronin Production Center, and "Moscow Aircraft Production Organization (MAPO) named after Dementiev" ( [ru], Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).

References[]

  1. ^ "10 малоизвестных фактов о заводе, где делают боевые самолеты МиГ". Российская газета. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "Завод № 30 — Испытатели". Testpilot.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  3. ^ "Самолет из огорода". Журнал "Коммерсантъ Деньги". 28 July 2003. p. 36. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. ^ "4. Предприятия и заводы оборонной промышленности". Военный паритет. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  5. ^ Forsberg, Randall (1994). The Arms Production Dilemma: Contraction and Restraint in the World Combat Aircraft Industry. MIT Press. p. 77. ISBN 9780262560856. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  6. ^ a b Greenwood, John; Hardesty, Von; Higham, Robin (2014). Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 155. ISBN 9781135251864. Archived from the original on 2017-12-16.
  7. ^ "DEFENSE DOSSIER: Potemkin Jets Nothing New". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  8. ^ "MiG Design and Production System: Post-Soviet Transformations". mdb.cast.ru. Moscow Defense Brief. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  9. ^ a b Dowling, Timothy C. (2014). Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 519. ISBN 9781598849486. Archived from the original on 2017-07-30.
  10. ^ "Производственный комплекс № 1 – филиал АО "РСК "МиГ"". Migavia.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  11. ^ "История". Migavia.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
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