Polikarpov

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.

Polikarpov I-5
Polikarpov Design Bureau
IndustryAerospace
FateAbsorbed into Lavochkin
Successor
FoundedMoscow, Russia
Defunct30 July 1944 (1944-07-30)
Key people
Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
ProductsAircraft

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 purpose-built building still stands.

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 with wooden floats. 124 built.
  • MR-2 (PM-2) floatplane version of R-1 with Munzel metal floats. 1 built.[1]
  • R-2 biplane reconnaissance aircraft based on R-1.
  • R-4 biplane reconnaissance aircraft (R-1 development, not produced).
  • 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
  • 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

References

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