OJSC Aviakor is an aviation plant located in Samara

Samara, Russia

Samara , is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers. Samara is the administrative center of Samara Oblast. Population: . The metropolitan area of Samara-Tolyatti-Syzran within Samara Oblast...

. It is part of the Russian machines holding under control of the financial industrial group Basic Element

Basic Element (company)

Basic Element is a diversified investment company founded in 1997 and owned by Oleg Deripaska. It is based in Moscow, Russia.- Overview :Basic Element's main assets are concentrated in five economic sectors - Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Construction and Aviation.About 250,000 people...

  owned by Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is the Russian Chief executive officer of Basic Element company and a member of the Board of Directors and CEO of United Company RUSAL, a Russian aluminium industry company...

. In USSR Kuibyshev aviation plant (№18) was one of the five largest plants in the aviation industry. For more than half a century the plant produced Tupolev

Tupolev

Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. Known officially as Public Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau headed by the Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev...

, Antonov

Antonov

Antonov, or Antonov Aeronautical Scientist/Technical Complex , formerly the Antonov Design Bureau, is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing and services company with particular expertise in the field of very large aircraft construction. Antonov ASTC is a state-owned commercial company...

 and Ilyushin

Ilyushin

Open Joint Stock Company «Ilyushin Aviation Complex» , operating as Ilyushin or Ilyushin Design Bureau, is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer, founded by Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin was established under the Soviet Union. Its operations began on January 13, 1933, by...

-designed aircraft. During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 the factory produced 15,099 Ilyushin Il-2

Ilyushin Il-2

The Ilyushin Il-2 was a ground-attack aircraft in the Second World War, produced by the Soviet Union in very large numbers...

s. Aviakor currently builds the Antonov An-140

Antonov An-140

|-Accidents and Incidents:The An-140 has suffered five major accidents. Two of them had no fatalities, and three had all on board killed.#In December 2002 an aircraft carrying many of Ukraine's top aviation designers and engineers crashed into a mountainside as it was preparing to land in...

 and Tupolev Tu-154

Tupolev Tu-154

The Tupolev Tu-154 is a three-engine medium-range narrow-body airliner designed in the mid 1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. As the mainstay 'workhorse' of Soviet and Russian airlines for several decades, it serviced over a sixth of the world's landmass and carried half of all passengers flown...

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The company owns Bezymyanka Airport

Bezymyanka (airport)

Bezymyanka - experimental aerodrome of the aviation plant Aviakor in the city of Samara. Located 4 km east of the railroad station Bezymyanka, Kirov district of Samara, 12 km east of the city center....

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