Sokol Aircraft Plant

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Sokol Aircraft Plant (

The company is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod. Their main production facility, with the adjacent airfield (known in the west as Sormovo Airfield) is located on the western outskirts of the city, in Moskovsky City District. For a long time, it was considered that district's most important industrial enterprise and main employer. The "Sormovo" appellation attached to the plant's air field may be because formerly (1956–1970) today's Moskovsky District was part of the Sormovo District.

To help financing, Sokol diversified after the

• MiG-29UB (1984–present), MiG-29UBT
• MiG-31
• Yakovlev Yak-130 (development 1996, 2009–present)
• Myasishchev M-101T Gzhel/Sokol
• Akkord-201 light twin aircraft
• Sokol sea cutter
• Volga-2 WIG aircraft

List of aircraft formerly in production

• Polikarpov I-5 (1932-1934), I-16, (since 1934, 22 modifications)
• LaGG-3, La-5, La-7, La-15
  (1948-1949)
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
  (1949-1952)
• MiG-17 (1952-1954)
• MiG-19 (1955-1957)
• MiG-21 (1959-1985), MiG-21-93
• MiG-25 (1969-1985)
• MiG-31BM

References

External links

• Official Site
• Official Site about MiG flights