To increase collective strength, in 1991 ANTKI O.K. Antonov formed partnership, with joint board of directors, with enormous Dniepropetrovsk Yuzhmash (Southern Heavy Machine Building Plant) which previously built giant ICBMs…
Aerokopter was established on 14 December 1999 to develop light rotorcraft. It was briefly associated with what, on 3 May 2000, became the separate Aviaimpex design bureau, also active in…
AEROPRAKT OOO (AEROPRAKT JSC) Aeroprakt was formed in Kiev in 1986, after Yuri Yakovlev, who had designed the T-8 lightplane for the Aeropract organisation of Samara, Russia, was invited to…
AVIATSIONNY NAUCHNO-TEKHNICHESKY KOMPLEKS IMENI O.K. ANTONOVA (Aviation Scientific-Technical Complex named for O.K. Antonov; Antonov ASTC) Antonov OKB was founded in 1946 by the eminent aircraft designer Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov. More…
AVIAIMPEX JSC Aviation division of TVT Corporation formed to introduce helicopter design and production to Ukraine. Initial liaison with Aerokopter Ltd of Poltava (formed 14 December 1999); however, on 3…
AVIANT, KIEVSKY GOSUDARSTVENNY AVIATSIONNY ZAVOD (Aviant, Kiev State Aviation Plant) The Kiev Aviation Plant has effectively terminated work on the Antonov An-32 twin-turboprop transport and An-124 heavy transport. However, it…
FIRMA AEROCLUB 'IKAR' ('Ikar' Aero Club Firm) 'Ikar' Aero Club was founded in 1995 to develop, build and provide engineering and maintenance support for light aircraft. In addition to the…
Kharkovskii Aviatsionni Institut (USSR, now Ukraine) was leading SKB (student construction bureau) in Soviet Union. Under Iosif Grigoryevich Nyeman produced KhAI-1 to -6 in 1932-7, plus various other types. KhAI-1…
KHARKOVSKOYE GOSUDARSTVENNOYE AVIATSIONNOYE PROIZVODSTVENNOYE PREDPRIYATIE (Kharkov State Aviation Production Enterprise) Established in 1926 as GAZ-135, Kharkov State Aircraft Manufacturing Company (KSAMC) has built military, passenger and freight aircraft, including the…
LILIENTAL’ ZAO (LILIENTHAL JSC) The company (which adopts the German spelling of aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal for marketing in the West) and its predecessors have built 15 types of aircraft,…
OTKRITOYE AKTSIONERNOYE OBSHCHESTVO MOTOR-SICH (Motor-Sich JSC) Long-established engine manufacturer Motor-Sich was confirmed in August 2000 as production centre for those Kamov Ka-226 utility helicopters required for use in Ukraine. These…
F.F. Tereshchyenko, Kiev factory owner, put his name to 2-seat monoplane 1914 which he financed and built. His factory built aircraft under licence 1916-17.