Duks
| Industry | Aerospace |
|---|---|
| Fate | Nationalized, later reinstated as a private company |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Julius Meller, Mukhtar Mejidov |
| Products | Aircraft components, Missiles, Military aircraft |
| Website | www |
Dux (Russian: Завод «Дукс», translit. Zavod "Duks") was a bicycle/automobile/aircraft factory in Moscow, Russia before and during World War I.
The factory was founded in 1893. The name comes from the Latin word dux (leader). Y. A. Meller was owner of the factory which was primarily focused on the building of French aircraft designs.
Many of the Moscow-based plants of the former Dux Factory were evacuated in 1941 and went on to become separate companies. The Dux factory gave the origin to many production institutions, among which are some worldwide recognized firms.
The factory was established in Moscow in 1893 as a bicycle production plant. Production shifted to aircraft manufacturing in 1910. During World War I Dux produced Voisin LAS, Nieuport 17, Nieuport 24, Farman family of aircraft including models IV, VII, XVI, XXX, as well as a large number of military bicycles.
After the October Revolution the plant was named "Aircraft plant #1 named after OSOAVIAKHIM" or "GAZ No. 1". Farmans and Nieuports were left in production.
In 1923 a design bureau was established at the plant, headed by Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov; this would later become known as the Polikarpov Design Bureau. Production models included I-5, I-15, I-15bis, I-153, I-16, R-5, and R-Zet aircraft. Polikarpov also built Airco DH.9A (which later became Polikarpov R-1/Polikarpov R-2) and Airco DH.4 during the 1920s and 1930s.
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