Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA)

Ural Civil Aviation Plant JSC is one of the largest aviation repair enterprises specializing in the maintenance of power plants for helicopters developed by the design bureau of Kamov OJSC and the M.L. Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. About 2 thousand specialists work at the Ural Civil Aviation Plant, more than 200 companies use its services.

History

2023: Construction of a plant for the production of aircraft "Baikal" and "Ladoga"

A new workshop was built at the Uktus site of the Titanium Valley special economic zone - three times more in area than the previous one (6.5 thousand square meters). Domestic aircraft "Ladoga" and "Baikal" of the Ural Civil Aviation Plant (UZGA) and other aircraft will be assembled here. This was reported at the end of August 2023 in the Department of Information Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region.

The timely completion of the construction of a multifunctional production complex will allow UZGA to meet the deadlines for launching new models of aviation equipment into mass production for the needs of regional aviation in the Russian Federation. As a result of the project, over 1.2 thousand new jobs will be created, the total budgetary effects will amount to more than 50 billion rubles, - said Deputy Sverdlovsk Governor Dmitry Ionin.

A new workshop was built at the Uktus site

The area of ​ ​ the new production building was 6.5 thousand square meters. In early September 2023, the equipment will begin to be installed. Earlier, a workshop for servicing and ground technological development of new UZGA aircraft was opened at Uktus. Its area was 1.9 thousand square meters. At the end of 2024, it is expected to commission a multifunctional production building with an area of ​ ​ more than 10.4 thousand square meters. m, added to the Department of Information Policy of the Sverdlovsk Region.

As noted by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, it is symbolic that the production site created by UZGA is located near the Sverdlovsk Aramil airfield, where a small aviation detachment was once based, which carried out flights along local lines. The rows were the very "corn workers" An-2, which are replaced by the modern Baikal developed in the Urals. It was in Aramil that the first test flight of Baikal took place in January 2023^[1]

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