HISTORY
Sukhoi
Company (JSC)
is a major Russian
aircraft
manufacturer, headquartered in
Begovoy District, Northern
Administrative Okrug, Moscow,
famous for its fighters. It was
founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as
the
Sukhoi
Design Bureau
(OKB-51,
design office prefix
Su).
After the collapse of Soviet
Union, each of the multitude
of bureaus and factories
producing Sukhoi components
were privatized
independently. In 1996, the
government re-gathered the
major part of them forming
Sukhoi Aviation Military
Industrial Combine
(Sukhoi
AIMC).
In parallel, other entities,
including Ulan Ude factory,
Tbilisi factory, Belarus and
Ukraine factories,
established alternate
transnational
Sukhoi Attack Aircraft
(producing e.g. Su-25 TM).
The Sukhoi AIMC comprises
the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau
located in Moscow, the
Novosibirsk Aviation
Production Association
(NAPO), the
Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft
Production Association
(KnAAPO) and Irkutsk
Aviation. Sukhoi is
headquartered in Moscow.
Finmeccanica owns 25% + 1
share of Sukhoi's civil
division. The Russian
government merged Sukhoi
with Mikoyan, Ilyushin,
Irkut, Tupolev, and Yakovlev
as a new company named
United Aircraft Corporation.
Mikoyan and Sukhoi were
placed within the same
operating unit.
Source:
Wikipedia
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