Zmaj aircraft

Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај) officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and seaplane factry Zmaj) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer. It was founded in 1927 and it was the third aeronatical factory in Serbia. At the beginning it manufactured aircraft under French license, and in 1932 it started with local planes designed by Jovan Petrović and Dragoljub Šterić. Several types of aircraft were manufactured by Zmaj, among them passanger Spartans for the domestic airliner Aeroput. Zmaj workshops manufactured in total 359 aircraft up until 1946, when the factory stopped manufacture for aviation industry purposes and the company was nationalised and merged with Rogožarski into Ikarus.^[1]

Aircraft

• Fizir F1V
• Fizir-Wright
• Zmaj Fizir F1M-Jupiter
• Zmaj Fizir-Loren (sic)
• Zmaj Fizir FN
• Fizir FP-1
• Zmaj Fizir FP-2
• Zmaj R-1

Fizir FN Trainer (1930) on display in the Museum of Aviation

Fizir FP-2 Advanced trainer, 1936

License built aircraft:

• Hanriot HD.32
• Hanriot H.41
• Dewoitine D.27
• Gourdou-Leseurre GL.2
• Heinkel HE 8
• Spartan Cruiser II
• Hawker Fury
• Hawker Hurricane

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  Tošin bunar street 27, the location where the plant Zmaj was created in 1927 (2010)

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  Karađorđeva street 18, the location where the plant Zmaj grew (2010)

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