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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

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Grigorovich I-Z The Grigorovich I-Z was a fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Advances in aircraft survivability thanks to all-metal construction and self-sealing and inert gas-filled fuel tanks led to experimentation with large-cal ...
* 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 ...
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Sukhoi Su-2 The Sukhoi Su-2 () is a Soviet reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft used in the early stages of World War II. It was the first airplane designed by Pavel Sukhoi. The basic design received an engine and armament upgrade (Su-4) and was modi ...


Trainer

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Yakovlev Yak-18 The Yakovlev Yak-18 (; NATO reporting name Max) is a tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft manufactured in the Soviet Union. Originally powered by one 119 kW (160 hp) Shvetsov M-11FR-1 radial piston engine, it entered ser ...


Transport

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Antonov An-72 The Antonov An-72 (NATO reporting name: Coaler) is a Soviet transport aircraft, developed by Antonov. It was designed as a STOL transport and intended as a replacement for the Antonov An-26, but variants have found success as commercial freigh ...
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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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Antonov An-140 The Antonov An-140 is a turboprop regional airliner, designed by the Ukraine, Ukrainian Antonov ASTC bureau as a successor to the Antonov An-24, with extended cargo capacity and the ability to use unprepared airstrips. Design and development Fi ...


Passenger

* Kalinin K-2 * Kalinin K-3 *
Kalinin K-4 The Kalinin K-4 was an airliner built in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s which was also adapted for use as a photographic survey aircraft and as an air ambulance. A further development of the K-1, it was a conventional high-wing, strut-braced ...
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Kalinin K-5 The Kalinin K-5 was an airliner produced in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, built in larger quantities than any other Soviet airliner of its time, with some 260 aircraft constructed. It was a conventional, high-wing, strut-braced monoplane with a ...
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Tupolev Tu-104 The Tupolev Tu-104 (NATO reporting name: Camel) is a medium-range, narrow-body, twin turbojet-powered Soviet airliner. It was the second to enter regular service, after the British de Havilland Comet and was the only jetliner operating in the wo ...
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Tupolev Tu-124 The Tupolev Tu-124 (NATO reporting name: Cookpot) is a 56-passenger short-range twin-jet airliner built in the Soviet Union. It was the Soviet Union's first operational airliner powered by turbofan engines. Design and development Developed fro ...
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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 ...
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Tupolev Tu-141 The Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh ("Swift"; ) is a Soviet reconnaissance drone that served with the Soviet Army during the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as the Ukrainian Armed Forces since 2014. Development The Tu-141 was a follow-on to the Tupolev ...


Ultralight

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KhAZ ViS-3 The ViS ViS-3 is a high wing, single-engine ultralight, designed and built in Ukraine. The production version is designated as KhAZ-30 (ХАЗ-30). Design and development The ViS-3 is a two-seat, side by side, conventionally laid out ultraligh ...


Experimental

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Kalinin K-7 The Kalinin K-7 () was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was of unusual configuration, with twin booms and large underwing pods housing fixed landing gear and machine gun turrets. In th ...
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Kharkiv KhAI-1 The Kharkiv KhAI-1 (ХАІ-1) was an airliner produced in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, unusual in that it was designed (and the prototype built) by students. An exceptionally clean design, the KhAI-1 was the first European passenger trans ...
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Kharkiv KhAI-4 The Kharkiv KhAI-4 was an experimental Soviet tailless aircraft tested in 1934. It only made three flights before being grounded as dangerous. Design and development The KhAI-4 was the Kharkov Institute's first tailless design, making its first ...
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Kharkiv KhAI-5 The Kharkiv KhAI-5, (sometimes Neman R-10) was a Soviet reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft, designed in the mid-1930s in the Kharkiv Aviation Institute (KhAI, - in Ukrainian: ХАІ), under the direction of Iosif Grigorevich Nyeman (someti ...


See also

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National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute The National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" ( NAU "KhAI", , НАУ "ХАІ") is a state-sponsored research university in Kharkiv, Ukraine which specializes in aviation and space engineering. The KhAI was founded in 1930. H ...


References

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