Motor Sich

Motor Sich Joint Stock Company
Industry Serial producing
Founded 1907
Headquarters Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Area served
 Worldwide
Products Aircraft engines, Turbojet engines
Increase UAH 3.3 billion (2015)[1]
Total assets Increase UAH 20.7 billion (2015)[1]
Number of employees
 21,860 (December, 2010)[2]
Website http://www.motorsich.com/

The Motor Sich Public Joint Stock Company (Ukrainian: ВАТ «Мотор Січ») in Zaporizhia is one of the largest engine manufacturers for airplanes and helicopters worldwide. It is also the only enterprise in Ukraine manufacturing engines for airplanes and helicopters as well as industrial gas turbine installations.

Overview

Motor-Sich currently produces the Ivchenko Progress D-18 turbofan which powers variants of the Antonov An-124 and An-225 freighters, although the Ivchenko Progress D-36/Ivchenko Progress D-436 series remain the highest production-rate engines in the CIS

Motor Sich inherited some of the former Soviet Union's aero engine manufacturing capabilities. It produces turbofan, turboprop and rotary-wing turboshaft engines that power aircraft in Russian service, such as Mi- and Ka-series military helicopters.[3]

Among the company's new products is the MS-500V turboshaft engine, originally intended for the Russian Ansat helicopter.

The company has announced that it was planning to launch its own helicopter, dubbed Hope, in 2018.[4]

As of 2017 Beijing Skyrizon Aviation had purchased a 41% holding in Motor Sich, but in September 2017 a Ukrainian court froze the holding for national security reasons. Beijing Skyrizon Aviation had agreed to invest $250 million in the Ukrainian plants, and to set up an assembly and servicing plant in Chongqing in southwest China.[5]

Components

In 2011 it acquired Orsha Engineering Factory, Orsha, Belarus.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  2. ↑ Motor Sich JSC (31 December 2010). "Motor Sich Annual Report 2010" (PDF). motorsich.com. Motor Sich JSC. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/jdi/jdi060823_1_n.shtml
  4. ↑ https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-other_news/2283661-motor-sich-to-start-helicopter-production-in-2018.html
  5. ↑ Zhen, Liu (16 September 2017). "Chinese firm's stake in Ukraine military aircraft engine maker 'frozen'". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
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