Ivchenko-Progress

Aircraft engine manufacturer

Ivchenko-Progress ZMKB
ЗМКБ «Прогрес» ім. О.Г.Івченка

Company type	State enterprise
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	1945; 79 years ago (1945)
Headquarters	Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Products	drafts and plans on Aircraft engines and Gas turbines
Parent	Ukrainian Defense Industry

Ivchenko-Progress ZMKB (Ukrainian: Запорізьке машинобудівне конструкторське бюро «Прогрес» ім. О.Г.Івченка, Zaporizhzhia Machine-Building Design Bureau "Progress" State Enterprise named after Academician O.H.Ivchenko), formerly OKB-478 and Ivchenko Lotarev, is a state design bureau that creates drafts and plans for aircraft engines in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine whose products are widely used in both civil and military aircraft, most notably by Antonov, Beriev, Ilyushin, Tupolev, Mil and Yakovlev. The design bureau works closely with Motor Sich, the turbine manufacturer located in Zaporizhzhia which produces those engines.

Polish manufacturer PZL-Mielec used the Progress ZMKB AI-25TL engine in the PZL M-15 Belphegor cropduster. Both the largest plane in the world, the Antonov An-225 Mriya and the largest helicopter, the Mil Mi-26, are powered by Progress/Lotarev engines.

The bureau is administered by the Ukrainian Defense Industry and the Ministry of Industrial Policy.

History

The Company has been involved for 60 years in the design of engines to power aircraft and helicopters of various types, and also designs drives and special equipment for industrial applications.^[1]

Three notable designers have led the development during this time:^[2]

1945–1968: Oleksandr Heorhiiovych Ivchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Георгійович Івченко) (Oleksandr Georgijovych Ivchenko)
1968–1989: Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Lotaryev (Ukrainian: Володимир Олексійович Лотарєв) (Volodmyr Oleksijovych Lotarev)
1989-2010: Fedir Mykhailovych Muravchenko (Ukrainian: Федір Михайлович Муравченко)
2010-: Ihor Fedorovych Kravchenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Федорович Кравченко)

Initially General Oleksandr Ivchenko designed piston engines. These engines were denoted AI. Work on their first turbine engine, the TS-12, began in 1953. Since the beginning of the 1960s the company have been developing bypass gas turbine engines. Under the direction of Volodymyr Lotarev, the organization developed the first operational Soviet high-bypass turbofans, the Lotarev D-36 in 1971.

This organization is now known as Ivchenko-Progress ZMKB and is based in Ukraine. Their engines are being operated successfully by numerous airlines around the world, including Volga-Dnepr, Antonov Airlines, Enimex, and Polet.

In January 2015, Diamond Aircraft of Austria announced the first flight of the Diamond DA50-JP7 powered by a 465 hp AI-450S turboprop engine developed by Ukraine's Motor Sich JSC and Ivchenko-Progress.^[3] However, Diamond ended up getting EASA certification on its DA50 RG model with a Continental CD-300 engine in September 2020, and FAA certification in July 2023.^[4]^[5]

Turkish strategic drone Akinci is powered by these engines and flies up to 40,000 feet.^[6]

Production

True to the Soviet tradition, design is kept separate from production. Many of the bureau's designs were or are produced at Motor Sich, located at Zaporizhzhia International Airport.

Related real estates

Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Sanatorium "Slavutych" in Andriivka (Mykhailivka rural municipality, Vilnyansk Raion)
Beach resort "Perl" near Prymorsk

Products

Turbofans

High-bypass turbofans

Propfans

Turboprops

Ivchenko AI-20
Ivchenko AI-24
Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S / S2
MS-14
MS-500

Turboshafts

Lotarev D-136 / Ivchenko AI-136
MS-500V

Turbojets

Ivchenko AI-7

Reciprocating engines

Ivchenko AI-4
Ivchenko AI-10
Ivchenko AI-14
Ivchenko AI-26

References

^ History of Ivchenko Progress ZMKB
^ Ivchenko-Progress Site. History of design of engines to aircraft, helicopters and drives of industrial application Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Turbine-Powered Diamond DA50 Takes Flight". 22 January 2015.
^ "Diamond Aircraft DA50 RG receives EASA Certification". Diamond Aircraft, September 9, 2020. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
^ "Diamond Aircraft celebrates DA50 RG FAA certification and first U.S. customer delivery". Diamond Aircraft, July 25, 2023. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
^ "Ukrainian turboprop and turbojet engines for Turkish UAVs and future unmanned fighter | January 2020 Global Defense Security army news industry | Defense Security global news industry army 2020 | Archive News year". www.armyrecognition.com. Retrieved 2021-04-26.