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Voronezh Aircraft Production Association

Coordinates: 51°38′N 39°15′E / 51.633°N 39.250°E / 51.633; 39.250
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Voronezh aircraft production association
Company typeOpen joint-stock company
IndustryAircraft
FoundedMarch 1, 1932; 92 years ago (1932-03-01) Voronezh, Soviet Union
Headquarters
Tsiolkovsky 27, Voronezh
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Key people
General manager: Dmitry Prishvin
ProductsAirplanes
Revenue6,670,500,000 Russian ruble (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
−246,391,000 Russian ruble (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
−1,471,689,000 Russian ruble (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assets36,740,968,000 Russian ruble (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
Number of employees
5,853 (June 2013)
ParentUAC[1]
Websitevaso.ru

Voronezh Aircraft Production Association[a] (VASO in English, ВАСО in Russian, Воронежское акционерное самолётостроительное общество, literally Society of Voronezh Joint-Ownership Aircraft Builders) is one of the largest aircraft production plants in Russia.

History

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Founded in 1932 in Voronezh (as Voronezh Aviation Plant, branch registry number 18). In 2007, VASO became part of the state-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC). Notable planes built here are the An-148 (never was commercially built, failed), Tu-28 (until 1970), Tu-144 (16 were made in 1967-1983), Il-86 (built until the end of the USSR), Il-96 (still in production with less than 1 unit per year), Il-28 (production ended in 1970), ANT-25 (pre-WWII plane), TB-3 (WWII plane), Il-2 (WWII plane), Tu-16 (built in the middle of the 20th century, retired in the late USSR years) and some others.

In July 2009, UAC said it will invest 5 billion rubles ($162 mln) in the modernization of VASO's facilities. According to UAC, VASO will build 5 An-148 passenger aircraft in 2009, 18 in 2010, 36 in 2011, and 50 planes would be made annually from 2013 onwards.[citation needed]

Between 2008 and 2015, it produced some parts for an Airbus A320 and the A380.[citation needed]

In 1993, the aircraft plant started to develop two new updates to old Soviet models, the wide-body aircraft Il-96-400M and Il-112V. However, the yearly revenue of the plant is lower than the average price of one wide-body airliner.[citation needed]

Operation

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The plant produces IL-96-300, IL-96-400T aircraft, separate units for Il-76MD-90A, SSJ100 and MC-21 aircraft, as well as PD-14 engines; work is underway on Il-112 and Il-114 aircraft. Up to and including 2018, the An-148 aircraft was produced in cooperation with Ukraine.

Also the plant is engaged in the maintenance of IL-96 and An-148.

Test flights are conducted at the Pridacha experimental airfield.

VASO Airlines

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For a short period, the company operated a charter airline sub-division, naming it VASO Airlines. Established in 1999, VASO folded in 2006.[2]

A VASO Airlines Ilyushin Il-86

Ownership structure

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  • JSC “Ilyushin Interstate Aircraft-Building Company” (30.0% of the shares)
  • JSC “Ilyushin Aviation Complex” (27.1% of the shares)
  • Private shareholders (42.9% of the shares)[3]

Incidents

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On March 5, 2011 an An-148 plane crash occurred in the Belgorod Oblast during a training flight performed by VASO testers and pilots from Myanmar. 6 people who were on board are died.

Notes

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  1. ^ Russian: ПАО «Воронежское акционерное самолётостроительное общество», romanizedPAO «Voronežskoje akcionernoje samoljotostroiteljnoje obšcestvo»

References

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  1. ^ "Список аффилированных лиц". e-disclosure.ru. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. ^ "VASO Airlines history from Europe, Russia". Airline History.
  3. ^ "JSC "Voronezh Aircraft Manufacturing Company"". United Aircraft Corporation. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
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