Stock Company of Aeronautics V. A. Lebedev
Key people: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lebedev, L. M. Shkoulnik, L. D. Kolpakov-Miroshnichenko, and S. B. Gourevich, all engineers and designers. V. I. Yarkovsky, specialist in European methods of aeroplane manufacturing, was plant manager.
April 1914, using insurance proceeds from a previous venture, founded his own stock company. Manufactured Deperdussin, Nieuport IV, and Farman IV aeroplanes and Voisin biplanes; then started production of FBA flying boats. In 1915, began restoring and modifying captured German Albatrosses for the Military Department and began applying the name Lebed (the shortened name of the manufacturer and Russian for "swan") to these craft. In 1916 began producing versions of the original Lebed-X11, a craft with some similarities to the Albatros B.II; some 216 were built with 192 accepted by the military. After a military commission in October 1917 determined that the airplane was obsolete, production was reduced but continued until 1918, using up the available parts. Construction of hydroplanes began in Taganrog in 1917 but work stopped later that year because of the Russian Revolution.
Address of plant was Novaya Derevnya (opposite the horse racetrack), Komendantsky Airfield; . head office was No. 54, 5th Line (i.e. Street), Vasilyevsky Ostrov Island; both St. Petersburg.
Locations: Rented plot belonging to Imperial Aero Club at Komendantskiy Airfield, St. Petersburg, Russia.; head office on Vasilyevskiy Ostrov Island, St. Petersburg. 1916, built factory at Taganrog on the shore of the Azov Sea, Russia, and started a plant at Penza, Russia, that was not completed.
Holdings at Leningrad, the former St. Petersburg, and at Tanganrog were taken over, ca. 1919, by entities of the Soviet government. Taganrog redesignated Aeroplane Factory No, 31.
Sources
- Gunston, 1993, p179
- RA72-
| Names | Stock Company of Aeronautics V. A. Lebedev, Lebed |
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| Country | Russia |
| City | St. Petersburg; Taganrog; Penza |
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| Started aero | 1914 |
| Ended aero | 1918 |
| Key people | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lebedev, L. M. Shkoulnik, L. D. Kolpakov-Miroshnichenko, S. B. Gourevich, V. I. Yarkovsky |
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