Aviastar-SP

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Aviastar-SP

Company type	Closed joint-stock company
Founded	1998; 27 years ago (1998)
Headquarters	Ulyanovsk , Russia
Revenue	88,800,000 United States dollar (1994)
Parent	United Aircraft Corporation
Website	aviastar-sp.ru at the Wayback Machine (archived 2022-04-15)

CJSC Aviastar-SP (Russian: «Авиастар-СП») is a Russian aircraft factory based in Ulyanovsk and founded in 1976. It is a closed shares joint stock company. It replaced the Soviet Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and manufactures the cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan, Il-76^[1][2] and the whole Tu-204 family (except Tu-214).

History

Designed from scratch in the early 1970s to produce a new generation of strategic bombers, the Ulyanovsk Aviation Production Complex (renamed Aviastar in November 1991 when it became a joint stock enterprise) is said to be the largest aviation production facility in the world and one of the newest in Russia.^[3]

It produces the An-124 long-range heavy transport aircraft and the 200-seat Tu-204 medium-range airliner. Ulyanovsk was originally intended to have airframe, avionics, and engine manufacturing facilities all in one complex, but the avionics and engine facilities have not been completed.^[3]

The plant also owns 40,000 acres of arable land on which it produced agricultural goods for its workers and for sale in the early 1990s.^[3] In 2007, 1.25% of Aviastar-SP capital has been injected into United Aircraft Corporation by the Russian Federation.

Operation

Aviastar-SP JSC, together with JSC IL and UAC-Transport Aircraft, is implementing a project to produce the Il-76MD-90A heavy transport aircraft, a modification of the Il-76 aircraft. Significant changes have been made to the design of the new aircraft: the wing and center section structures have been modernized, the landing gear has been strengthened, and upgraded engines have been installed. The on-board electronic and navigation system has been significantly changed, which includes modern digital equipment.

The company is producing a promising Il-78M-90A tanker based on the IL-76. Ministry of Defence of Russia plans to use the aircraft not only for refueling aircraft, but also for transporting goods and extinguishing fires. It will be a fundamentally new aircraft.

Aviastar-SP JSC performs maintenance and deep modernization of aircraft An-124 Ruslan.

Aviastar-SP JSC participates in cooperation on the production of a promising medium-haul passenger aircraft MC-21. The main components manufactured by Aviastar-SP JSC are: assembly wing root and plumage, manufacture of hatches and doors, fuselage panels, F5 compartment, APU compartment, high-resource pipeline, interior installation.

Together with the Voronezh Aviation Plant, Aviastar-SP JSC participates in a new large-scale project to prepare the production of a light transport aircraft Il-112. According to the cooperation, Aviastar-SP JSC produces panels for fuselage compartments F-1, F-2, F-3, hatches and doors.

Aviastar-SP JSC participates in the implementation of the Il-114-300 Regional Aircraft project: fuselage panels for IL-114-300 (skin, stringers, rims, compensators), hatches and doors are assembled at the Aviastar-SP JSC site.

Owners and management

The leaders of UAPK—Aviastar:

• Systsov Apollon Sergeevich (1975-1980) — the first General director of the UPAC;
• Abdulin Fen Zagidovich (1980-1985);
• Mikhail Prokofievich Pilnik (1986-1990);
• Mikhailov Viktor Vasilyevich (1990—1997);
• Gennady Ivanovich Korotnev (1997-2000);
• Ryazanov Yuri Viktorovich (2001);
• Mikhailov Viktor Vasilyevich (2001-2008);
• Mikhail Nikolaevich Shushpanov (2008-2010);
• Sergey Gennadievich Dementiev (2010-2016);
• Since March 2016 Andrey Anatolyevich Kapustin has been Managing Director of Aviastar-SP;
• Since January 2017 Sergey Yurasov has been Managing Director of Aviastar-SP;
• Since May 3, 2018 Vasily Nikolaevich Dontsov has been appointed Acting Managing Director of Aviastar-SP JSC;
• Since September 2020 Sergey Konstantinovich Sheremetov has been Managing Director of Aviastar-SP JSC, and V. V. Nikulin has been Chairman of the Board of Directors.