Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company or Kharkiv Aviation Factory (KSAMC or KhAZ; ) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company. During the Soviet era, the plant was known as ''Aircraft Production Plant 135'' and the

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classified it as ''Kharkiv Airframe Plant 135.''

History

KhAZ was established on September 17, 1926, following the foundation of Kharkiv aircraft repair facilities, which had been established in 1923. These facilities were originally constructed by the German aviation company

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prior to

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's rise to power. This undertaking was part of Weimar Germany's strategy to conceal its military cooperation with the

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, aiming to circumvent the limitations imposed on the German Armed Forces by the

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. The manufacturing facility has its own aerodrome, known as Kharkiv North Airport (ICAO: UKHV), alternatively recognized as ''Kharkiv Sokilnyky Airport''.

Notable aircraft

Fighters

* Grigorovich I-Z * Grigorovich IP-1 *

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (; USAF/DoD designation: Type 14; NATO reporting name: Fagot) is a jet fighter aircraft developed by Mikoyan-Gurevich for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate s ...

* Sukhoi Su-2

Trainer

* Yakovlev Yak-18

Transport

* Antonov An-72 *

Antonov An-74 The Antonov An-74 (Russian language, Russian: Антонов Ан-74, NATO reporting name: Coaler) is a Soviet Union, Soviet/Ukraine, Ukrainian Cargo aircraft, transport aircraft developed by Antonov. It is a development of the Antonov An-72, An ...

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Passenger

* Kalinin K-2 * Kalinin K-3 * Kalinin K-4 * Kalinin K-5 * Tupolev Tu-104 * Tupolev Tu-124 *

Tupolev Tu-134 The Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO reporting name: Crusty) is a twin-engined, narrow-body jet airliner built in the Soviet Union for short and medium-haul routes from 1966 to 1989. The original version featured a glazed-nose design and, like certain oth ...

* Tupolev Tu-141

Ultralight

* KhAZ ViS-3

Experimental

* Kalinin K-7 * Kharkiv KhAI-1 * Kharkiv KhAI-4 * Kharkiv KhAI-5

References

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