The leader of the Ukrainian aircraft engine industry "Ivchenko-Progress" is 75 years old



On Tuesday, May 5, it was 75 years since the founding of the Zaporozhye Machine-Building Design Bureau "Progress". Academician OG Ivchenko ", the leader of the domestic aircraft engine industry, which is part of the SC" Ukroboronprom ".

with reference to ArmyInform.

The company also specializes in gas turbine engines for industrial use. The company estimates that the total operating time of their gas turbine engines is more than 300 million hours. That's about 35,000 years of continuous operation.

The Ivchenko-Progress experimental complex contains 17 stands and 78 special units for various engine tests, which makes it one of the most powerful in Europe.

Today the staff of the enterprise with 2500 thousand people is headed by academician of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine, doctor of technical sciences Igor Fedorovich Kravchenko, who has been working at the enterprise for about 40 years and holds the position of head and general designer since 2010. Under his leadership, Ivchenko-Progress demonstrates a stable growth of financial indicators, both in terms of volume of work performed and their implementation. In the last 4 years alone, the company has transferred more than UAH 1 billion in taxes to the budgets of various levels.

    "Ivchenko-Progress is a truly unique powerful Ukrainian company with a world name! It is this company that has developed engines that lift into the sky the world's largest and most powerful transport aircraft - the An-225 "Dream", as well as the An-125 "Ruslan" and other models of Antonov aircraft. The design genius of the Ivchenko-Progress team has developed many unique engines that have set many records, such as the world's first most powerful D-136 helicopter engine. I sincerely congratulate the staff and veterans of the company on the anniversary. I am convinced that the revival of aircraft construction in Ukraine will be a new impetus for the development of the enterprise. Ukroboronprom has joined the development of the relevant strategy and we believe that this large state project will soon be implemented, ”said Aivaras Abromavicius, General Director of Ukroboronprom.

    Ukraine has the necessary capacity for the full cycle of aircraft production, including the unique design developments of Ivchenko-Progress. Adoption of the Aircraft Development Strategy, which today has the political support of the President, should move the industry from a standstill, which will be a new stage in the development of a number of enterprises, "added Ruslan Korzh, Strategic Affairs Adviser to Ukroboronprom.

State Enterprise "Zaporizhzhya Machine-Building Design Bureau" Progress "named after Academician OG Ivchenko "carries out design, manufacture, testing, certification, support of flight tests of prototypes, author's design support of production and operation, repair and modernization of gas turbine engines of aviation and industrial application. The right to design, manufacture, repair and modernize engines is confirmed by more than 75 certificates issued by the European Aviation Safety Agency, the State Aviation Service of Ukraine, the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of China, Bureau Veritas and others. Ivchenko-Progress actively cooperates with foreign aircraft manufacturers and participates in international scientific and technical projects. Priority areas in the work are research and development work.

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