Moscow Aircraft Production Association

MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association (Russian: Московское авиационное производственное объединение, translit. 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, established in 1893 as a bicycle manufacturer.[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 Lukhovitsy Machine Building Plant 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 Chernyshev Machine Building Enterprise and Aviabank.[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 wtih 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" (Petr Dementiev, Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).

References

  1. ↑ "10 малоизвестных фактов о заводе, где делают боевые самолеты МиГ". Российская газета. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Завод № 30 — Испытатели". Testpilot.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Самолет из огорода". Журнал "Коммерсантъ Деньги". 28 July 2003. p. 36. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "4. Предприятия и заводы оборонной промышленности". Военный паритет. 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. 1 2 Greenwood, John; Hardesty, Von; Higham, Robin (2014). Russian Aviation and Air Power in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 155. ISBN 9781135251864.
  7. ↑ "DEFENSE DOSSIER: Potemkin Jets Nothing New". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "MiG Design and Production System: Post-Soviet Transformations". mdb.cast.ru. Moscow Defense Brief. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  9. 1 2 Dowling, Timothy C. (2014). Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 519. ISBN 9781598849486.
  10. ↑ "Производственный комплекс № 1 – филиал АО «РСК «МиГ»". Migavia.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  11. ↑ "История". Migavia.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 10 June 2017.
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