The JSC Sukhoi Company ( Russian : ПАО «Компания „Сухой“» , Russian pronunciation: [sʊˈxoj] ) is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (formerly Soviet ), headquartered in Begovoy District , Northern Administrative Okrug , Moscow , that designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded in the Soviet Union by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau ( OKB-51 , design office prefix Su ). During February 2006, the Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan , Ilyushin , Irkut , Tupolev , and Yakovlev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation .
31-560: In March 1930, nine years prior to the creation of the bureau, Pavel Sukhoi , an aerospace engineer , took over team no. 4 of the CAHI's AGOS aviation, flying boat aviation and aircraft prototype engineering facility. Under Sukhoi's leadership, the team of the future design bureau started to take shape. The team, under the Tupolev OKB , produced experimental fighters such as the I-3, I-14, and
62-408: A branch of IRKUT Corporation, changing its name to Regional aircraft. This is stated on the company's website. "Within the implementation of the strategy uniting civil aircraft companies into one Civil Aviation Division JSC “SCA” has been integrated into Irkut Corporation starting from February 17, 2020. The decision was adopted by JSC “SCA” Shareholders on June 27, 2019. Regional Aircraft – Branch of
93-538: A new company named United Aircraft Corporation in February 2006. Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit. In September 2007, Sukhoi launched its first modern commercial regional airliner —the Superjet 100 (SSJ 100), a 78 to 98 seater, built by Sukhoi. It was unveiled at Komsomolsk-on-Amur . The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008. In March 2008, Sukhoi was selected to design and produce
124-576: A resolution to reopen institutions of higher education in Russia. Sukhoi returned to his studies at BMSTU and graduated in 1925 with his thesis titles Single-engined Pursuit Aircraft of 300 hp under the direction of aeronautics pioneer Andrei Tupolev . In March 1925, Sukhoi started working as an engineer and designer with the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) and Moscow Factory Number 156 under Tupolev. During
155-1113: Is composed of the JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau and the JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, located in Moscow , the Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPA), located in Novosibirsk , and the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO), located in Komsomolsk-on-Amur . Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica (since 2017, Leonardo ) owns 25% + 1 share of Sukhoi's civil division. The Russian government merged Sukhoi with Mikoyan , Ilyushin , Irkut , Tupolev , and Yakovlev as
186-729: The Belarusian State University of Transport . In 1915, Sukhoi was admitted to the Imperial Moscow Technical School in Moscow after passing the entrance exams . However, Sukhoi's studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army following the escalation of World War I . Sukhoi attended warrant officer training assigned to the artillery of the Russian Western Front . Sukhoi
217-708: The Cold War , including the supersonic Su-7 , which became the main Soviet fighter-bomber of the 1960s, and interceptors Su-9 and Su-15 , which formed the backbone of the Soviet Air Defence Forces . Sukhoi also pioneered variable-sweep wing aircraft, such as the Su-17 and Su-24 . Sukhoi also started a number of projects that were not developed, including the ambitious Mach-3-capable Sukhoi T-3 attack aircraft . From 1958 to 1974, Sukhoi served as
248-631: The Eastern Front of World War II . In September 1939, Sukhoi founded an independent engineering and design department named Sukhoi Design Bureau (OKB Sukhoi) located in Kharkiv . Sukhoi was not satisfied with the geographical location of the OKB, which was isolated from the scientific centers of Moscow. Sukhoi insisted that the OKB should relocate to an aerodrome in Moscow Oblast , and by
279-593: The Il-114 passenger turboprop and modernized Ilyushin Il-96 -400 widebody will stay with Ilyushin . The new commercial division will also include the Yakovlev Design Bureau , avionics specialist UAC—Integration Center and composite manufacturer AeroComposit. Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), a developer and manufacturer of SuperJet aircraft, ceased operations as an independent legal entity and became
310-806: The Ilyushin Il-2 . The government, however later chose the Il-2 over the Su-6, but rewarded Sukhoi a Stalin Prize of the 1st Level for its development in 1943. Sukhoi and this team later focused on development of variants of the Su-2, the prototype cannon-armed Sukhoi Su-1 (Su-3) fighter, as well as the Sukhoi Su-8 , which to serve as a long-range ground-attack aircraft for the Soviet Air Forces , but
341-543: The Soviet Union 's first booster aircraft control system, landing braking parachute, catapult ejection seat with telescopic trolley, and a jettisonable nose with a pressurized cockpit. From 1949, Sukhoi fell out of Stalin's favor and in a government resolution, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was scrapped, and Sukhoi was forced to return to work under Andrei Tupolev , this time as Deputy Chief Designer. In 1953,
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#1732784020819372-758: The Sukhoi Su-9 , Sukhoi Su-11 , Sukhoi Su-15 , and the Sukhoi Su-17 , the Sukhoi Su-10 jet bomber , and the reconnaissance and artillery spotter twinjet , the Sukhoi Su-12 . Sukhoi and his team also used the Tupolev Tu-2 bomber to develop and produce the trainer bomber UTB-2, worked on passenger and troop-carrying aircraft, the jet fighter Sukhoi Su-14, and a number of other aircraft. From 1945 to 1950, Sukhoi and his team also developed
403-567: The carbon fiber composite wings for Irkut's MC-21 's airframe. Sukhoi is also working on what is to be Russia's fifth-generation stealth fighter , the Sukhoi Su-57 . The maiden flight took place on the 29 January 2010. As of January 2015, Sukhoi is working on a family of the regional airliner: the Sukhoi Superjet 100 , such as the jet airliner Superjet 130 , which would have a seating capacity of 130 to 145 seats, and to bridge
434-542: The design bureau standalone status and relocation of the bureau to the Production Aircraft Plant No. 135 in Kharkov , Ukrainian SSR . However, Sukhoi was not satisfied with its location, since it was isolated from the scientific pole of Moscow . Sukhoi later relocated the bureau to the aerodrome of Podmoskovye in Moscow, completing half of the relocation by 1940. Sukhoi encountered another issue:
465-731: The DIP, a record-breaking RD aircraft, the Tupolev ANT-25 , flown by famous Soviet aviators , Valery Chkalov and Mikhail Gromov , and the long-range bombers such as the Tupolev TB-1 and the Tupolev TB-3 . In 1936, Joseph Stalin , leader of the Soviet Union , issued a requirement for a multi-role combat aircraft . As a result, Sukhoi and his team developed the BB-1, a reconnaissance aircraft and light bomber in 1937. The BB-1
496-504: The Irkut Corporation shall resume the continuity of business in the areas of development, production and aftersales support of the aircraft," - it is stated on corporate website in the section "Company". In June 2023 patents for a new design of a single engine Su-75 stealth fighter were filed, given the codename checkmate the design work has taken 3 years and test aircraft are under construction. On 23 February 2024, smoke
527-476: The annual general meeting of shareholders of the PJSC Sukhoi Company, with the election recently on June 28, 2017. Notes Bibliography Pavel Sukhoi Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi ( Russian : Па́вел О́сипович Сухо́й ; Belarusian : Па́вел Во́сіпавіч Сухі́ , Paviel Vosipavič Suchi ; 22 July 1895 – 15 September 1975) was a Soviet aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known as
558-739: The bureau had no production line in Moscow, thus making it useless as Sukhoi had nothing to do. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II , the Su-2 needed a successor as it was proved obsolete and under-armed against German aircraft, with 222 aircraft destroyed in total. Sukhoi and his bureau designed a two-seat armored ground-attack aircraft , the Sukhoi Su-6 , considered in some terms to be superior to its competitor,
589-641: The company. The progress made by the new branch would lead to the development of the utility aircraft, the Su-80 , and the agricultural aircraft, the Su-38 , less than a decade later. In 1996, the government re-gathered the major part of them forming Sukhoi Aviation Military Industrial Combine ( Sukhoi AIMC ). In parallel, other entities, including Ulan Ude factory, Tbilisi factory, Belarus and Ukraine factories, established alternate transnational Sukhoi Attack Aircraft (planning to produce e.g. Su-25 TM). The Sukhoi AIMC
620-462: The first half of 1940 the relocation was completed. By the winter of 1942, Sukhoi encountered another problem: since he had no production line of his own, he had nothing to do. Sukhoi had developed a new ground-attack aircraft , the Su-6 , but Soviet leader Joseph Stalin decided that this plane should not be put into production, favouring production of the Ilyushin Il-2 . In the postwar years, Sukhoi
651-457: The following years, Sukhoi designed and constructed aircraft including the record-setting Tupolev ANT-25 and the TB-1 and TB-3 heavy bombers . In 1932, Sukhoi was appointed head of the engineering and design department of TsAGI, and in 1938 he was promoted to head of the department of design. Sukhoi also developed a multi-purpose light aircraft, the Su-2 , which saw service in the early years of
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#1732784020819682-626: The founder of the Sukhoi Design Bureau . Sukhoi designed military aircraft with Tupolev and Sukhoi for 50 years, and produced many notable Soviet planes such as the Sukhoi Su-7 , Su-17 , and Su-24 . His planes set two altitude world records (1959, 1962) and two world speed records (1960, 1962). Sukhoi was honored in the Soviet Union as a Hero of Socialist Labor and awarded the Order of Lenin three times. Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi
713-674: The gap of Russian aircraft between the Superjet Stretch and the Irkut MC-21 . At the end of November 2018, United Aircraft Corporation transferred SCAC from Sukhoi to the Irkut Corporation, to become UAC's airliner division, as Leonardo S.p.A. pulled out in early 2017 because of Superjet's poor financial performance. Irkut will manage the Superjet 100 , the MC-21 and the Russo-Chinese CR929 widebody, but
744-502: The school for the children of railway workers headed by his father. Around this time, Sukhoi contracted typhus and then scarlet fever which significantly affected his ability to speak, and he developed a reputation as a quiet person for the remainder of his life. In 1920, Sukhoi was finally demobilized from the army because of his health-related problems, and the government of the Russian Soviet Republic issued
775-427: The year of Stalin's death, he was permitted to re-establish his own Sukhoi Design Bureau, set up with new production facilities. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , each of the multitude of bureaus and factories producing Sukhoi components was privatized independently. In the early 1990s, Sukhoi started to diversify its products and initiated Sukhoi Civil Aircraft to create a line of civil aviation projects for
806-419: Was among the first Soviet aircraft designers who led the work on jet aircraft , creating several experimental jet fighters. From 1949, Sukhoi fell out of Stalin's favour and was forced to return to work under Tupolev, this time as Deputy Chief Designer. In 1953, the year of Stalin's death, Sukhoi was permitted to re-establish his own Sukhoi Design Bureau. Sukhoi produced several major serial combat aircraft during
837-648: Was approved and under a July 29, 1939 government resolution, the Sukhoi OKB , designated as OKB-51, also known as the Sukhoi Design Bureau, was developed in order to set up production for the aircraft. The BB-1 was introduced and later adopted by the Soviet Air Forces in the same year. A year later, the BB-1 was later designated the Sukhoi Su-2 . A total of 910 Su-2 aircraft were built. The resolution also made Sukhoi chief designer, gave Sukhoi's team of
868-570: Was born 22 July 1895 in Hlybokaye , Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire , to ethnic Belarusian parents of peasant background. He had five sisters and no brothers. In 1900, Sukhoi's family moved to Gomel when his father, Osip Andreevich Sukhoi, got a job as a teacher at a school for the children of railway workers. From 1905 to 1914, Sukhoi attended the gymnasium in Gomel, now
899-610: Was in the Russian Army when it collapsed after the October Revolution in 1917, returning to Moscow to find his university was closed. Instead, Sukhoi returned to Gomel to live with his parents and was offered a place as a mathematics teacher in the small town of Luninets near Brest-Litovsk . In 1919, Sukhoi fled to Gomel as Polish troops advanced on Luninets during the Polish–Soviet War , and began teaching at
930-511: Was later discarded as the Soviet Union was winning the Eastern Front . After the war, Sukhoi and his team were among the first Soviet aircraft designers who led the work on jet aircraft , creating several experimental jet fighters . Sukhoi started developing two mixed-power fighters, the Sukhoi Su-5 and a modification of the Sukhoi Su-6 named Su-7 before 1945. At the start of 1945, the design bureau started working on jet fighters such as
961-467: Was seen emerging from a warehouse located on the site of Sukhoi Design Bureau's headquarters in Moscow . On 14 June 2024, another fire, this time more serious, broke out in a different building at the same site in Moscow, collapsing the roof of the latter. An area of some 800 square meters was destroyed. However officials said that the building wasn't in use at the time. Over 70 firefighters and 25 units were used to put out this fire. Members are elected by