Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company

Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company or Kharkiv Aviation Factory (KSAMC or KhAZ; Ukrainian: Ха́рківське держа́вне авіаці́йне виробни́че підприємс́тво) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company. During the Soviet era, the plant was known as Aircraft Production Plant 135 and the Central Intelligence Agency classified it as Kharkiv Airframe Plant 135.^[1]

Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company

Native name	Ха́рківське держа́вне авіаці́йне виробни́че підприємс́тво
Company type	State-owned
Industry	Aircraft industry
Founded	17 September 1926
Headquarters	Kharkiv , Ukraine
Products	passenger, transport, military transport aircraft construction
Number of employees	7569 (2016)
Parent	Ukroboronprom
Website	www.ksamc.com/eng/

History

KhAZ was established on September 17, 1926, following the foundation of Kharkiv aircraft repair facilities, which had been established in 1923.^[2] These facilities were originally constructed by the German aviation company Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG prior to Adolf Hitler's rise to power. This undertaking was part of Weimar Germany's strategy to conceal its military cooperation with the Soviet Union, aiming to circumvent the limitations imposed on the German Armed Forces by the Treaty of Versailles.^[3]

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
• Sukhoi Su-2

Trainer

• Yakovlev Yak-18

Transport

• Antonov An-72
• Antonov An-74
• Antonov An-140

Passenger

• Kalinin K-2
• Kalinin K-3
• Kalinin K-4
• Kalinin K-5
• Tupolev Tu-104
• Tupolev Tu-124
• Tupolev Tu-134
• Tupolev Tu-141

Ultralight

• KhAZ ViS-3

Experimental

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

See also

• National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute