Polikarpov

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Industry Aerospace Founded 1924		Products Aircraft Defunct 30 July 1944

Fate Absorbed into Lavochkin Key people Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov Successors Lavochkin, Mikoyan, Sukhoi

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Polikarpov Design Bureau was a Soviet OKB (design bureau) for aircraft, led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov. Dux Factory was acquired by the USSR and became part of Polikarpov.

After the death of Polikarpov on 30 July 1944 at the age of 52, his OKB was absorbed into Lavochkin, but with some of its engineers going to Mikoyan-Gurevich and its production facilities going to Sukhoi. For long time the Polikarpov OKB headquarters were located at Aircraft plant #1 (formerly Dux Factory) in Moscow, where its specially built building still stands.

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Designs

Polikarpov designs:

Bombers

TB-2 twin-engined biplane bomber prototype, 1930

SPB (D) twin-engined dive bomber developed from the VIT-2, 1940

NB (T) medium bomber prototype, 1944

Fighters

I-1 (IL-400) monoplane fighter prototype, 1923

DI-1 (2I-N1) twin seat biplane fighter prototype, 1926

I-3 biplane fighter, 1928

DI-2 two-seat biplane fighter developed from the I-3, 1929

I-6 biplane fighter prototype, 1930

I-5 biplane fighter, 1930

I-15 Chaika biplane fighter, 1933

I-16 fighter, 1933

I-15-2/I-152 (I-15bis) prototype modernized version of I-15, 1938

I-15-3/I-153 Chaika biplane fighter

I-17 fighter prototype, 1934

I-180 prototype fighter developed from the I-16, 1938

I-185 prototype fighter developed from the I-180, 1941

I-190 biplane fighter prototype developed from I-153, 1939

I-200 (MiG-1) fighter

TIS (MA) twin engined heavy fighter prototype, 1941

ITP (M) fighter prototype, 1942

Malyutka rocket-powered fighter abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death

Ground attack

VIT-1 twin engined attack aircraft prototype, 1937

VIT-2 development of VIT-1, 1938

Ivanov ground attack aircraft prototype, 1938

Reconnaissance

R-1 unlicensed copy of the British Airco DH.9A bomber

MR-1 floatplane version of R-1

R-2 biplane reconnaissance aircraft based on R-1

R-4 biplane reconnaissance aircraft (R-1 development)

R-5 biplane reconnaissance aircraft, 1928

SSS light bomber development of R-5

R-Z reconnaissance/light bomber, developed from the R-5, 1935

Airliners/transport

PM-1 (P-2) biplane airliner

PM-2 (PM-2) floatplane

P-5 light transport version of R-5

PR-5 airliner developed from R-5

PR-12 monoplane airliner development based on the PR-5, 1938

P-Z commercial variant of R-Z

BDP (S) transport glider

MP powered version of the BDP

Limozin (D) light transport aircraft abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death

Trainers

Po-2/U-2 "Mule" general purpose biplane, 1929

P-2 biplane trainer, 1927

References

Polikarpov Wikipedia

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