Lavochkin

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Lavochkin
Type	State-owned company
Founded
Headquarters
Key people	Semyon Lavochkin, designer
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Products	Military aircraft

Lavochkin (OKB-301) was a Soviet aircraft design bureau (OKB), now defunct, named for its head designer, Semyon Lavochkin. It gained distinction for its family of piston-engined fighter aircraft during World War II, and later shifted to missile designs. The bureau was closed in 1960 upon its head designer's death, but was later re-opened as the NPO Lavochkin to work on interplanetary probe designs for the Lunokhod program that successfully landed two rovers on the surface of the moon.

NPO Lavochkin is the successor organization, a Russian satellite manufacturer formerly also active in aeronautical design and engineering. The firm sometimes goes by the names Lavochkin Research and Production Association or Lavochkin Association. Currently it is headed by Valeriy N. Poletskiy.

1 Aircraft
2 Spacecraft
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Aircraft

LaGG-1
LaGG-3
La-5
La-7
La-9 'Fritz'
La-11 'Fang'
La-15 'Fantail'
La-17
La-120
La-126
La-130
La-132
La-134
La-138
La-140
La-150
La-152
La-154
La-156
La-160
La-168
La-174
La-176
La-180
La-190
La-200
La-205 is V-300, a SAM for S-25 air defense system
La-250 Anakonda

[edit] Spacecraft

Lunokhod

[edit] See also

Babakin Space Centre

[edit] References

William H Mott, Robert B Sheldon, L Philip Sheldon (2000). Laser Satellite Communication: The Third Generation. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 132. ISBN 1-56720-329-9
GlobalSecurity.org - http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/russia/npolav.htm