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Zmaj Aircraft
Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer
Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај) officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and Hydroplane Factory Zmaj) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer.
| Company type | Joint stock company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 15 March 1927 (1927-03-15)[1] |
| Founders | |
| Defunct | 1946 (1946) |
| Fate | Nationalised and merged with Ikarus in 1946 |
| Successor | Ikarus |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Dušan Stankov |
The company was founded in 1927 and it was the third aeronautical factory in Serbia. At the beginning it manufactured aircraft under French license, and in 1932 it started with local planes designed by Jovan Petrović and Dragoljub Šterić. Several types of aircraft were manufactured by Zmaj, among them passenger Spartans for the domestic airliner Aeroput. Zmaj workshops manufactured 359 aircraft up until 1946, when the factory stopped manufacturing for aviation industry purposes and the company was nationalised and merged with Rogožarski into Ikarus.[2]
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zmaj Fizir F1 | 1925 | 36[lower-alpha 1] | Single engine biplane trainer |
| Zmaj Fizir FN | 1929 | 137[lower-alpha 2] | Single engine biplane trainer |
| Zmaj Fizir FP | 1933 | 81 | Single engine biplane trainer |
| Zmaj R-1 | 1940 | 1 | Single engine monoplane bomber |
| Zmaj HD.320 | 45 | License built single engine biplane trainer | |
| Zmaj H.41 | 10 | License built single engine biplane floatplane trainer | |
| Zmaj D.27 | 3[3] | License built single engine monoplane fighter | |
| Zmaj GL.2 | 26 | License built single engine monoplane fighter | |
| Zmaj HE 8 | 1[4] | License built single engine monoplane floatplane reconnaissance airplane | |
| Zmaj Cruiser II | 1 | License built three engine monoplane airliner | |
| Zmaj Fury | 16[lower-alpha 3] | License built single engine biplane fighter | |
| Zmaj Hurricane | 24[5] | License built single engine monoplane fighter | |
Footnotes
- An additional 20 aircraft were built by Rogožarski.
- An additional 60 aircraft were built by Rogožarski and Albatross.
- An additional 24 aircraft were built by Ikarus.
Notes
- Živan, Veljović (1972). Пет деценија Змаја [Five Decades of Zmaj] (in Serbian). Belgrade: IPM Zmaj Zemun.
- Hayles, John (11 February 2003). "Yugoslavia: The Aviation Industry". Aeroflight. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
- "Девоатин D.27" [Dewoitine D.27]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 24 June 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- "Хајнкел He-8" [Heinkel He-8]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- "Хокер Харикен" [Hawker Hurricane]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
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