Moscow Aircraft Production Association

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, 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 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" (Petr Dementiev [ru], Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).

References

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