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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.

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Polikarpov Design Bureau

Industry	Aerospace
Founded	Moscow, Russia
Defunct	30 July 1944 (1944-07-30)
Fate	Absorbed into Lavochkin
Successor	Lavochkin Mikoyan-Gurevich Sukhoi
Key people	Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov
Products	Aircraft

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, 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-13/ANT-32 fighter project, 1931
• 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

• Po-2/U-2 "Mule" general purpose biplane, 1928
• P-2 biplane trainer, 1927

References

На других языках

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- [en] Polikarpov

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[fr] Polikarpov

Polikarpov (en russe : ОКБ Поликарпов) est un bureau d'études aéronautique (OKB) soviétique. Le préfixe du bureau d'études est le Po. Après la mort de son fondateur Nikolaï Polikarpov en 1944, il est absorbé par Lavotchkine. Certains des ingénieurs migrent vers l'OKB Mikoyan-Gourevitch, et les usines deviennent propriété de Soukhoï. sous le nom de OKB-115.

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[it] Polikarpov

L'ufficio tecnico di Polikarpov (in cirillico Поликарпов) era un OKB (ufficio speciale di progettazione) sovietico per la produzione di aerei, soprattutto da caccia, guidato e seguito dal fondatore, Nikolaj Nikolaevič Polikarpov.

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