Zmaj Aircraft

Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај), officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and Hydroplane Factory Zmaj), was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer.

Zmaj

Company type	Joint stock company
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	15 March 1927 (1927-03-15)[1]
Founders	Jovan Petrović[1] Dragoljub Šterić[1]
Defunct	1946 (1946)
Fate	Nationalised and merged with Ikarus in 1946
Successor	Ikarus
Headquarters	Zemun , Serbia
Key people	Dušan Stankov

History

27 Tošin Bunar Street, the site where Zmaj was founded in 1927

The company was founded in 1927 and it was the third aeronautical 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 passenger Spartans for the domestic airliner Aeroput. Zmaj workshops manufactured 359 aircraft up until 1946, when the factory stopped manufacturing for aviation industry purposes and the company was nationalised and merged with Rogožarski into Ikarus.^[2]

Aircraft

Fizir FN on display in the Museum of Aviation

Fizir FP-2

Model name	First flight	Number built	Type
Zmaj Fizir F1	1925	36[lower-alpha 1]	Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj Fizir FN	1929	137[lower-alpha 2]	Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj Fizir FP	1933	81	Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj R-1	1940	1	Single engine monoplane bomber
Zmaj HD.320		45	License built single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj H.41		10	License built single engine biplane floatplane trainer
Zmaj D.27		3[3]	License built single engine monoplane fighter
Zmaj GL.2		26	License built single engine monoplane fighter
Zmaj HE 8		1[4]	License built single engine monoplane floatplane reconnaissance airplane
Zmaj Cruiser II		1	License built three engine monoplane airliner
Zmaj Fury		16[lower-alpha 3]	License built single engine biplane fighter
Zmaj Hurricane		24[5]	License built single engine monoplane fighter

See also

• Aircraft industry of Serbia

References

Footnotes

1. An additional 20 aircraft were built by Rogožarski.
2. An additional 60 aircraft were built by Rogožarski and Albatross.
3. An additional 24 aircraft were built by Ikarus.

Notes

1. Živan, Veljović (1972). Пет деценија Змаја [Five Decades of Zmaj] (in Serbian). Belgrade: IPM Zmaj Zemun.
2. Hayles, John (11 February 2003). "Yugoslavia: The Aviation Industry". Aeroflight. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
3. "Девоатин D.27" [Dewoitine D.27]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 24 June 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
4. "Хајнкел He-8" [Heinkel He-8]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
5. "Хокер Харикен" [Hawker Hurricane]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.