CJSC Aviastar-SP is a Russian aircraft factory based in Ulyanovsk and founded in 1976. It is a closed shares joint stock company. It has replaced the Soviet Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and manufactures the cargo aircraft An-124 Ruslan, Il-476 and the whole Tu-204 family (except Tu-214).HistoryDesigned from scratch in the early 1970s to produce a new generation of strategic bombers, the Ulyanovsk Aviation Production Complex is said to be the largest aviation production facility in the world and one of the newest in Russia.It produces the An-124 long-range heavy transport aircraft and the 200-seat Tu-204 medium-range airliner. Ulyanovsk was originally intended to have airframe, avionics, and engine manufacturing facilities all in one complex, but the avionics and engine facilities have not been completed.The plant also owns 40,000 acres of arable land on which it produces agricultural goods for its workers and for sale. In 2007, 1.25% of Aviastar-SP capital has been injected into United Aircraft Corporation by the Russian Federation.
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