Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UZGA; Russian: Уральский завод гражданской авиации, also earlier Factory No. 404) is an aircraft manufacturing and aircraft repair enterprise, one of the major manufacturers in the aircraft manufacturing industry in Russia. It specializes in the development, production, testing, repair and maintenance of aircraft equipment, components and assemblies. The company includes a production center for engine maintenance and repair, aircraft manufacturing facilities, an engineering center, and a number of subsidiaries, affiliates, and separate companies.
History
The history of the plant dates back to 1939: it began with linear aircraft repair shops (SARM GVF), which carried out maintenance of aircraft moving along the Moscow-Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk-Moscow and Moscow-Magnitogorsk air routes. On March 16, 1939, the workshops were given the status of an independent enterprise of the USSR civil fleet. This date became the birthday of plant No. 404, now known to us as the Ural Works of Civil Aviation.[1]
The plant's activities began with the repair of U-2, Po-2 aircraft and M-11, M-17, MG-31 aircraft engines; during the Great Patriotic War, the enterprise significantly increased its production capacity. The plant mastered and began assembling SB bombers and I-15 and I-16 fighters, replacing engines on Li-2 aircraft and repairing the most popular engine at that time - ASh-62IR