Soviet aircraft design bureau
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 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 a 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, 1940NB (T) medium bomber prototype, 1944
Fighters I-1 (IL-400) monoplane fighter prototype, 1923DI-1 (2I-N1) twin-seat biplane fighter prototype, 1926I-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-13/ANT-32 fighter project, 1931 I-15 Chaika biplane fighter, 1933I-16 fighter, 1933 I-15-2/I-152 (I-15bis) prototype modernized version of I-15, 1938I-15-3/I-153 Chaika biplane fighterI-17 fighter prototype, 1934 I-180 prototype fighter developed from the I-16, 1938I-185 prototype fighter developed from the I-180, 1941I-190 biplane fighter prototype developed from I-153, 1939I-200 (MiG-1) fighterTIS (MA) twin-engined heavy fighter prototype, 1941ITP (M) fighter prototype, 1942Malyutka rocket-powered fighter, abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death
Ground attack VIT-1 twin-engined attack aircraft prototype, 1937VIT-2 development of VIT-1, 1938Ivanov 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, 1938P-Z commercial variant of R-Z BDP (S) transport gliderMP powered version of the BDP Limozin (D) light transport aircraft, abandoned incomplete upon Polikarpov's death
Trainers
References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polikarpov .
^ "PM-2 floatplane by Polikarpov and Munzel".
