MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association ( Russian: Московское авиационное производственное объединение, romanized: Moskovskoye aviatsionnoye proizvodstvennoye obyedineniye) was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer.
MAPO has its origins in Plant #30 of the Dux Factory company. [1] Plant #30 was established in 1939 in Dubna. [2] In December 1941, it was relocated to the former site of Plant #1, where it manufactured the Ilyushin Il-2. [2] In 1950, it merged with Plant #381, to produce the Il-28 in larger volumes. [2] In 1953, Lukhovitsy Machine Building Plant was established as a subsidiary of the plant. [3]
Plant #30 became known as the Znamya Truda Machine-Building Plant in 1965, [4] and as the Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation in 1973. [2]
In the early 1990s, it employed 30,000 workers. [5] In 1995, MAPO was merged with the Mikoyan Design Bureau, forming MAPO-MiG. [6] In January 1996, a decree of President Boris Yeltsin established MAPO VPK, which combined 12 different aviation companies, including MAPO-MiG, Kamov, Klimov, the Chernyshev Machine Building Enterprise and Aviabank. [6]
Unlike Sukhoi, which managed to secure export contracts with China and India, MAPO continued to be unprofitable throughout the 1990s. [7] In December 1999, MAPO was renamed Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG. [8]
In 2006, MAPO merged with Sukhoi and several other Russian aviation companies to form United Aircraft Corporation. [9] The majority of MAPO's former assets are now part of Mikoyan. [9]
The Lukhovitsy and Znamya Truda plants are currently known as 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №1' (ПК №1 PCK «МиГ») and 'MiG Manufacturing Complex №2' (ПК №2 PCK «МиГ»), respectively. [10] [11]
Over the years, it has also been known as OSOAVIAKHIM Plant #1, GAZ No. 1, Menjinski Plant #39, Orjonikidze Plant #381, Plant #30, MMZ (Moscow Machine-Building Plant) "Znamya Truda" (Banner of Labor), P.A. Voronin Production Center, and "Moscow Aircraft Production Organization (MAPO) named after Dementiev" ( Petr Dementiev , Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).