TheJSC Sukhoi Company (Russian:АО «Компания „Сухой“»,Russian pronunciation:[sʊˈxoj]) is aRussian aircraft manufacturer (formerlySoviet), headquartered inBegovoy District,Northern Administrative Okrug,Moscow,^[6] that designs both civilian and military aircraft. It was founded in the Soviet Union byPavel Sukhoi in 1939 as theSukhoi Design Bureau (OKB-51,design office prefixSu). During February 2006, the Russian government merged Sukhoi withMikoyan,Ilyushin,Irkut,Tupolev, andYakovlev as a new company namedUnited Aircraft Corporation.^[7]

JSC Sukhoi Company

Sukhoi Company (JSC) head office/Sukhoi Design Bureau offices in theBegovoy District inMoscow,Russia
Native name	АО Компания «Сухой»
Formerly	OKB-51
Company type	Division,Joint-stock company
Industry	Aerospace anddefense
Founded	1939; 86 years ago (1939)
Founder	Pavel Sukhoi
Fate	merged intoUnited Aircraft Corporation
Headquarters	Begovoy District,Moscow,Russia
Key people	Pavel Sukhoi (Founder) Yury Slyusar (President of the UAC) Igor Y. Ozar (General Director)
Products	Civilian aircraft, Military aircraft, Unmanned aerial vehicles
Revenue	$1.61 billion[1] (2016; 2011)
Operating income	$76 million[2] (2016; 2011)
Net income	$35.1 million[3] (2016; 2011)
Total assets	$6.15 billion[4] (2016)
Total equity	$2.74 billion[4] (2016)
Number of employees	26,177(2011)[5]
Parent	United Aircraft Corporation
Website	sukhoi.org at theWayback Machine (archived 2022-04-02)

In March 1930, nine years prior to the creation of the bureau,Pavel Sukhoi, anaerospace engineer, took over team no. 4 of the CAHI's AGOS aviation, flying boat aviation and aircraft prototype engineering facility. Under Sukhoi's leadership, the team of the future design bureau started to take shape. The team, under theTupolevOKB, produced experimental fighters such as the I-3, I-14, and the DIP, a record-breaking RD aircraft, theTupolev ANT-25, flown by famous Sovietaviators,Valery Chkalov andMikhail Gromov, and thelong-range bombers such as theTupolev TB-1 and theTupolev TB-3.^[8]

In 1936,Joseph Stalin, leader of theSoviet Union, issued a requirement for amulti-role combat aircraft. As a result, Sukhoi and his team developed the BB-1, areconnaissance aircraft andlight bomber in 1937. The BB-1 was approved and under a July 29, 1939 government resolution, the SukhoiOKB, designated as OKB-51, also known as the Sukhoi Design Bureau, was developed in order to set up production for the aircraft. The BB-1 was introduced and later adopted by the Soviet Air Forces in the same year. A year later, the BB-1 was later designated theSukhoi Su-2. A total of 910 Su-2 aircraft were built. The resolution also made Sukhoi chief designer, gave Sukhoi's team of thedesign bureau standalone status and relocation of the bureau to the Production Aircraft Plant No. 135 inKharkov,Ukrainian SSR. However, Sukhoi was not satisfied with its location, since it was isolated from the scientific pole ofMoscow. Sukhoi later relocated the bureau to the aerodrome of Podmoskovye in Moscow, completing half of the relocation by 1940. Sukhoi encountered another issue: the bureau had no production line in Moscow, thus making it useless as Sukhoi had nothing to do.^[8]

During theGerman invasion of the Soviet Union inWorld War II, theSu-2 needed a successor as it was proved obsolete and under-armed againstGerman aircraft, with 222 aircraft destroyed in total. Sukhoi and his bureau designed a two-seat armoredground-attack aircraft, theSukhoi Su-6, considered in some terms to be superior to its competitor, theIlyushin Il-2. The government, however later chose the Il-2 over the Su-6, but rewarded Sukhoi aStalin Prize of the 1st Level for its development in 1943. Sukhoi and this team later focused on development of variants of the Su-2, the prototype cannon-armedSukhoi Su-1 (Su-3) fighter, as well as theSukhoi Su-8, which to serve as a long-range ground-attack aircraft for theSoviet Air Forces, but was later discarded as the Soviet Union was winning theEastern Front.^[8]

After the war, Sukhoi and his team were among the first Soviet aircraft designers who led the work onjet aircraft, creating several experimentaljet fighters. Sukhoi started developing two mixed-power fighters, theSukhoi Su-5 and a modification of theSukhoi Su-6 named Su-7 before 1945. At the start of 1945, the design bureau started working on jet fighters such as theSukhoi Su-9,Sukhoi Su-11,Sukhoi Su-15, and theSukhoi Su-17, theSukhoi Su-10jet bomber, and thereconnaissance and artillery spottertwinjet, theSukhoi Su-12. Sukhoi and his team also used theTupolev Tu-2 bomber to develop and produce the trainer bomber UTB-2, worked on passenger and troop-carrying aircraft, thejet fighter Sukhoi Su-14, and a number of other aircraft.

From 1945 to 1950, Sukhoi and his team also developed theSoviet Union's first booster aircraft control system, landing braking parachute, catapult ejection seat with telescopic trolley, and a jettisonable nose with a pressurized cockpit. From 1949, Sukhoi fell out of Stalin's favor and in a government resolution, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was scrapped, and Sukhoi was forced to return to work underAndrei Tupolev, this time as Deputy Chief Designer. In 1953, the year of Stalin's death, he was permitted to re-establish his own Sukhoi Design Bureau, set up with new production facilities.^[8]

After thecollapse of the Soviet Union, each of the multitude of bureaus and factories producing Sukhoi components was privatized independently. In the early 1990s, Sukhoi started to diversify its products and initiatedSukhoi Civil Aircraft to create a line ofcivil aviation projects for the company. The progress made by the new branch would lead to the development of the utility aircraft, theSu-80, and the agricultural aircraft, theSu-38, less than a decade later.^[9] In 1996, the government re-gathered the major part of them formingSukhoi Aviation Military Industrial Combine (Sukhoi AIMC).^[10] In parallel, other entities, including Ulan Ude factory, Tbilisi factory, Belarus and Ukraine factories, established alternate transnationalSukhoi Attack Aircraft (planning to produce e.g.Su-25 TM).^[10]

The Sukhoi AIMC is composed of theJSC Sukhoi Design Bureau and the JSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft, located inMoscow, theNovosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPA), located inNovosibirsk, and theKomsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO), located inKomsomolsk-on-Amur. Sukhoi is headquartered in Moscow. Finmeccanica (since 2017,Leonardo) owns 25% + 1 share of Sukhoi's civil division.^[11] The Russian government merged Sukhoi withMikoyan,Ilyushin,Irkut,Tupolev, andYakovlev as a new company namedUnited Aircraft Corporation in February 2006.^[12] Mikoyan and Sukhoi were placed within the same operating unit.^[13] In September 2007, Sukhoi launched its first moderncommercialregionalairliner—theSuperjet 100 (SSJ 100), a 78 to 98 seater, built by Sukhoi. It was unveiled atKomsomolsk-on-Amur.^[14] The maiden flight was made on May 19, 2008.^{[citation needed]} In March 2008, Sukhoi was selected to design and produce thecarbon fiber composite wings forIrkut'sMC-21's airframe.^{[citation needed]} Sukhoi is also working on what is to be Russia'sfifth-generation stealth fighter, theSukhoi Su-57. The maiden flight took place on the 29 January 2010.^[15]

As of January 2015, Sukhoi is working on a family of the regional airliner: theSukhoi Superjet 100, such as the jet airlinerSuperjet 130, which would have a seating capacity of 130 to 145 seats, and to bridge the gap of Russian aircraft between the Superjet Stretch and theIrkut MC-21.

At the end of November 2018,United Aircraft Corporation transferredSCAC from Sukhoi to the Irkut Corporation, to become UAC'sairliner division, asLeonardo S.p.A. pulled out in early 2017 because of Superjet's poor financial performance.Irkut will manage theSuperjet 100, theMC-21 and the Russo-ChineseCR929 widebody, but theIl-114 passenger turboprop and modernizedIlyushin Il-96-400 widebody will stay withIlyushin.The new commercial division will also include theYakovlev Design Bureau, avionics specialist UAC—Integration Center and composite manufacturer AeroComposit.^[16]

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), a developer and manufacturer of SuperJet aircraft, ceased operations as an independent legal entity and became a branch of IRKUT Corporation, changing its name to Regional aircraft. This is stated on the company's website.

"Within the implementation of the strategy uniting civil aircraft companies into one Civil Aviation Division JSC “SCA” has been integrated into Irkut Corporation starting from February 17, 2020. The decision was adopted by JSC “SCA” Shareholders on June 27, 2019.Regional Aircraft – Branch of the Irkut Corporation shall resume the continuity of business in the areas of development, production and aftersales support of the aircraft," - it is stated on corporate website in the section "Company".^[17][18]

In June 2023 patents for a new design of a single engineSu-75 stealth fighter were filed, given the codenamecheckmate the design work has taken 3 years and test aircraft are under construction.^[19]

On 23 February 2024, smoke was seen emerging from a warehouse located on the site of Sukhoi Design Bureau's headquarters inMoscow.^[20] On 14 June 2024, another fire, this time more serious, broke out in a different building at the same site in Moscow, collapsing the roof of the latter. An area of some 800 square meters was destroyed. However officials said that the building wasn't in use at the time. Over 70 firefighters and 25 units were used to put out this fire.^[21]

• JSC Sukhoi Company
  • CJSC Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (now acquired byIrkut Corporation and renamed:Regional Aircraft – Branch of the Irkut Corporation^[22][18])
  • JSC Sukhoi Design Bureau
  • JSC Sukhoi Holdings
  • Branches
    • Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association (KnAAPO)
    • Novosibirsk Aircraft Production Association (NAPO)

• Yury B. Slyusar,President of theUAC^[23]

• Igor Y. Ozar^[23]

Members are elected by the annual general meeting of shareholders of the PJSC Sukhoi Company, with the election recently on June 28, 2017.^[23]

• Ivan M. Goncharenko
• Oleg Y. Demidov
• Oleg F. Demchenko
• Sergei N. Konosov
• Nikolai F. Nikitin
• Igor Y. Ozar, General Director of the PJSC Sukhoi Company
• Yuri B. Slyusar,President of theUAC
• Alexander V. Tulyakov
• Sergei V. Yarkovoy

• List of Sukhoi aircraft
• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

Notes

Bibliography

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• Duffy, Paul (December 1996).Tupolev: The Man and His Aircraft. Society of Automotive Engineers.ISBN 1-56091-899-3.
• Gordon, Yefim (2008).Soviet Air Power in World War II. Midland Publishing.ISBN 1-85780-304-3.
• Pederson, Jay (1998).International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 24. St James Press.ISBN 1-55862-365-5.

• Sukhoi websiteArchived 2022-04-02 at theWayback Machine (in Russian)
• Sukhoi Civil Aircraft websiteArchived 2021-03-15 at theWayback Machine (in English)