Lubelska Wytwórnia Samolotów

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Lubelska Wytwórnia Samolotów (LWS) was the oldest manufacturer of aircraft in Poland. It was founded in 1920 as the aviation department of the company "Zaklady Mechaniczne E. Plage i T. Laśkiewicz", which had existed since 1864.

history

Lublin R-XI, 1930/31

One began with the licensing of Italian Ansaldo , French Potez and Dutch Fokker aircraft . The first of its own was a type based on the Fokker F.VIIB-3m , 21 of which were built and used in the Polish Air Force from 1930 . The official name of the aircraft at that time was Plage & Laśkiewicz; However, since this name was found difficult by foreign interested parties, it was often replaced by Lublin , the company location. The most important type of aircraft built in the first half of the 1930s was the R-XIII reconnaissance and liaison aircraft , over 200 of which were produced and some of which were still in use during the attack on Poland .

In autumn 1935, the company filed for bankruptcy and was nationalized under the name LWS. For example, the LWS-3 Mewa reconnaissance aircraft and the LWS-4 Żubr bomber had been developed before the war began . The company also took over the partial production of the RWD-14 Czapla reconnaissance aircraft .

In total, LWS produced around 740 aircraft from 1920 to 1939.

During the Second World War , a labor camp was set up on parts of the factory premises in which Jews, predominantly from the Majdanek concentration camp , had to store, sort, clean, disinfect and pack the belongings of their gassed fellow inmates from the Belzec , Majdanek, Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps as Nazi forced laborers .

Constructions

until 1935
  • R-VIII : Biplane reconnaissance aircraft (1928), small series
  • RX : high- wing liaison aircraft (1929), small series
  • R-IX : double-decker passenger aircraft (1929), prototype only
  • R-XIV : high-wing trainer aircraft (1930), 15 units built
  • R-XI : shoulder- wing passenger aircraft (1930), prototype only
  • R-XV: High-wing reconnaissance aircraft, project only
  • R-XXII: biplane coastal scout, project only
  • R-XIII : high-wing multi-purpose aircraft (1931), 273 units built
  • R-XVI : Schultderdecker medical aircraft (1932), small series
  • R-XIX: Experimental high-wing aircraft with V-tail (1933), only prototype
  • R-XXIII: Civil version of the R-XIII, one copy built
from 1935
  • LWS-2 : high-wing medical aircraft (1937), prototype only
  • LWS-3 : high-wing reconnaissance aircraft (1937), small series
  • LWS-4 : shoulder-wing bomber (1936), 17 pieces built
  • LWS-5: float version of the LWS-4, project only

literature

  • Mariusz Wojciech Majewski: Samoloty i Zakłady Lotnicze II Rzeczypospolitej . Z. P. Poligrafia, Warsaw 2006, ISBN 978-83-922944-5-0 (Polish, with English abstract).

Web links

Commons : Lubelska Wytwórnia Samolotów  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Forced labor camp at Flugplatz. Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
  2. a b Peter Alles-Fernandez (Ed.): Aircraft from A to Z. Volume 3 . Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-7637-5906-9 , pp. 13/14 and 236/237 .