Moscow Aircraft Production Association

MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer.

History

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]

Names

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 Dementyev" (Pyotr Dementyev, Minister of Aircraft Industry from 1953 to 1977).