Polikarpov

Polikarpov Design Bureau

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

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 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 long time the Polikarpov OKB headquarters were located at Aircraft plant #1 (formerly – Dux aircraft factory) in Moscow, where its specially 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-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
• R-2 biplane reconnaissance aircraft based on R-1
• R-4 biplane reconnaissance aircraft (R-1 development)
• 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
• PM-2 (PM-2) floatplane
• 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, 1929
• P-2 biplane trainer, 1927