OAK (aviation group)

Objedinjonnaja Aviastroitelnaja Korporazija
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	RU000A0JPLZ7
founding	February 2006
Seat	Moscow , Russia
management	Yuri Borisovich Slyusar
sales	451 billion rubles (4 billion euros )
Branch	Aerospace engineering ; Defense industry
Website	www.uacrussia.ru
	Status: 2017

OAK ( Russian Объединённая Авиастроительная Корпорация , Objedinjonnaja Awiastroitelnaja Korporazija ; English United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) ) is a Russian aerospace consortium consisting of the largest aircraft manufacturers in Russia, Sukhoi , Mikoyan , Tupolev , Ilyushin and Irkut ( Beriev and Yakovlev is). By decree of the Russian President, 92 percent of the shares were transferred to Rostec in October 2018 .

History of origin

OAK was founded in February 2006 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin . The first phase of corporate concentration was completed in autumn 2006. Since then, OAK ( German "United Aircraft Consortium") is the largest aviation consortium that has ever existed in Russia , even compared to the aviation industry of the former Soviet Union . Many of the experimental design offices or their manufacturing plants that existed in the Soviet state aviation industry from the 1930s onwards are now part of OAK: The company includes, among others, Irkut in Irkutsk with the integrated Yakovlev , Ilyushin / WASO in Voronezh , Tupolev with production in Kazan , Sukhoi in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Novosibirsk , Mikoyan-Gurevich in Nizhny Novgorod , Myasishchev , Beriev from Taganrog and Aviastar-SP based in Ulyanovsk .

From September 2006 OAK held a capital share of five percent in the European aviation group Airbus Group . This was the former 20 percent stake of British Aerospace in Airbus, which the Russian state bank VTB had bought . This should enable Irkut to set up a joint venture with the Airbus Group. For its part, the Airbus Group already had a 10 percent stake in Irkut. Airbus' joint venture for the Beriev Be-200 was dissolved in 2016.

history

With the establishment of OAK, several strategic economic goals were pursued. Under the English name United Aircraft Corporation, OAK was to enter into fiercer competition on the international market with western aircraft manufacturers, in particular the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing and the Airbus Group, and thus become the world's third largest aircraft manufacturer by 2025. To this end, it was initially necessary to use the synergy effects associated with a merger at short notice and to increase the savings potential in the Russian aviation industry, since OAK saw a decisive competitive advantage in lower prices in particular.

The aim was, among other things, the development and series production of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional aircraft and the Irkut MS-21 medium- haul aircraft , a cooperation project between Irkut, Ilyushin and Tupolev. The Airbus Group also intended to have the Airbus A320 family developed and produced by Airbus manufactured under license by Irkut or converted into freighters. It was suspected in journalists' circles that the license should only be granted to meet the needs of the Russian aviation market. The Russian flag carrier Aeroflot , which has integrated various Airbus models into its fleet, comes into particular consideration here. Both the MS-21 and the intended license production of the Airbus A320 / 321 represented the modern alternative to the Tupolev Tu-204 , which was not able to establish itself on the eastern market (including CIS countries ) , especially because of the high operating costs . In 2011, the intended collaboration to convert A320 freighters was canceled.

A lack of profitability is the most serious obstacle on the way to a competitive Russian civil aviation industry for airliners from Russian production. Since at least 2011 and until at least the first half of 2016, OAK posted losses, in 2015 the deficit was 109 billion rubles.

The state-owned Chinese Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) and OAK founded the new joint venture China-Russia Commercial Aircraft International Co. (CRAIC) on May 22, 2017 to build the long-haul aircraft CRAIC C929 with 280 seats and a range of 12,000 kilometers by 2028 .

At the beginning of October 2019, Kommersant named the total debt of the group in August 2019 a figure of 509 billion rubles. The creation of a regional airline that would only operate Russian aircraft continued to be discussed in order to promote the sale of OAK aircraft.

range

The current range of aircraft types is made up of what the various Russian manufacturers had previously offered for themselves. This creates a comparatively complete offer.

Civil aircraft

Il-96-300 of the Cubana

Long-haul aircraft
- II-96-300
- Il-96-400
Medium-haul aircraft
- Tu-204-100 or Tu-214
- Irkut MS-21 as the successor to the Tu-204 in development.
Short-haul aircraft
- Sukhoi Superjet 100
- An-148 : 2004 newly developed high-decker; a joint venture with the Ukrainian manufacturer Antonov entered into in 2010 was ended in September 2015.
- Tu-334 (project discontinued in 2009.)
Propeller planes
- Il-114 : should replace the Antonov An-24 to An-32 transport aircraft from 1994. Program temporarily suspended, reactivated again with the new type IL-114-300, assembly of the prototype in 2019.
- Il-112 : intended to replace the Antonov An-24 to An-32 transport aircraft.