Zmaj Aircraft

Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај) officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and Hydroplane Factory Zmaj) was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer.

Zmaj
TypeJoint stock company
IndustryAerospace
Founded15 March 1927 (1927-03-15)[1]
Founders
  • Jovan Petrović[1]
  • Dragoljub Šterić[1]
Defunct1946 (1946)
FateNationalised and merged with Ikarus in 1946
SuccessorIkarus
Headquarters
Zemun
,
Serbia
Key people
Dušan Stankov

History
27 Tošin Bunar Street, the site where Zmaj was founded in 1927

The company was founded in 1927 and it was the third aeronautical factory in Serbia. At the beginning it manufactured aircraft under French license, and in 1932 it started with local planes designed by Jovan Petrović and Dragoljub Šterić. Several types of aircraft were manufactured by Zmaj, among them passenger Spartans for the domestic airliner Aeroput. Zmaj workshops manufactured 359 aircraft up until 1946, when the factory stopped manufacturing for aviation industry purposes and the company was nationalised and merged with Rogožarski into Ikarus.[2]

Aircraft
Fizir FN on display in the Museum of Aviation
Fizir FP-2
Model name First flight Number built Type
Zmaj Fizir F1 1925 36[lower-alpha 1] Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj Fizir FN 1929 137[lower-alpha 2] Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj Fizir FP 1933 81 Single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj R-1 1940 1 Single engine monoplane bomber
Zmaj HD.320 45 License built single engine biplane trainer
Zmaj H.41 10 License built single engine biplane floatplane trainer
Zmaj D.27 3[3] License built single engine monoplane fighter
Zmaj GL.2 26 License built single engine monoplane fighter
Zmaj HE 8 1[4] License built single engine monoplane floatplane reconnaissance airplane
Zmaj Cruiser II 1 License built three engine monoplane airliner
Zmaj Fury 16[lower-alpha 3] License built single engine biplane fighter
Zmaj Hurricane 24[5] License built single engine monoplane fighter

See also

References
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Footnotes
  1. An additional 20 aircraft were built by Rogožarski.
  2. An additional 60 aircraft were built by Rogožarski and Albatross.
  3. An additional 24 aircraft were built by Ikarus.

Notes
  1. Živan, Veljović (1972). Пет деценија Змаја [Five Decades of Zmaj] (in Serbian). Belgrade: IPM Zmaj Zemun.
  2. Hayles, John (11 February 2003). "Yugoslavia: The Aviation Industry". Aeroflight. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
  3. "Девоатин D.27" [Dewoitine D.27]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 24 June 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  4. "Хајнкел He-8" [Heinkel He-8]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 27 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  5. "Хокер Харикен" [Hawker Hurricane]. Удружења за неговање ваздухопловних традиција Србије [Association for Nurturing Aviation Traditions of Serbia] (in Serbian). 10 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2022.


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