Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company
{{Short description|Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company
| native_name = Ха́рківське держа́вне авіаці́йне виробни́че підприємс́тво
| logo = File:Logo_KSAMC.jpg
| type = State-owned
| genre =
| foundation = 17 September 1926
| founder =
| location_city = Kharkiv
| location_country = Ukraine
| location =
| origins =
| key_people =
| area_served =
| industry = {{Plainlist|
}}
| products = passenger, transport, military transport aircraft construction
| services =
| revenue =
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| num_employees = 7569 (2016)
| parent = Ukroboronprom
| divisions =
| subsid =
| slogan =
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.ksamc.com/eng/}}
| dissolved =
| footnotes =
}}
Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company or Kharkiv Aviation Factory (KSAMC or KhAZ; {{langx|uk|Ха́рківське держа́вне авіаці́йне виробни́че підприємс́тво}}) is a Ukrainian aircraft manufacturing company. During the Soviet era, the plant was known as Aircraft Production Plant 135 and the Central Intelligence Agency classified it as Kharkiv Airframe Plant 135.{{Cite web |date=February 1985 |title=Basic Imagery Interpretation Report, Kharkov Airframe Plant 135 (S), Strategic Weapons Industrial Facilities, USSR |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85T00840R000101250001-9.pdf |access-date=24 October 2023 |website=National Photographic Interpretation Center, Central Intelligence Agency}}
History
KhAZ was established on September 17, 1926, following the foundation of Kharkiv aircraft repair facilities, which had been established in 1923.{{Cite web |title=Харківське державне авіаційне виробниче підприємство |url=https://mil.in.ua/uk/articles/harkivske-derzhavne-aviatsijne-vyrobnyche-pidpryyemstvo/ |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=Мілітарний |language=uk}} These facilities were originally constructed by the German aviation company Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG prior to Adolf Hitler's rise to power. This undertaking was part of Weimar Germany's strategy to conceal its military cooperation with the Soviet Union, aiming to circumvent the limitations imposed on the German Armed Forces by the Treaty of Versailles.{{Cite news |last=C. K. Daly |first=John |title=Kharkiv State Aviation Production Enterprise Enters Freefall |language=en-US |work=Jamestown Foundation |url=https://jamestown.org/program/kharkiv-state-aviation-production-enterprise-enters-freefall/ |access-date=2023-10-23}}
The manufacturing facility has its own aerodrome, known as Kharkiv North Airport (ICAO: UKHV), alternatively recognized as Kharkiv Sokilnyky Airport.