Manufacturer catalog

Smolensk Aviation Plant

Smolensk Aviation Plant is a Russian aircraft and missile-production enterprise in Smolensk that repairs and builds aviation equipment, produces light aircraft and UAV-related products, and is documented as a Kh-59 missile production and state-defense-contract participant within Tactical Missile Armament Corporation.

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Smolensk Aviation Plant traces its institutional history to a repair-aviation plant opened in 1926 and later became a Soviet and Russian aerospace manufacturing site tied to Yakovlev, Myasishchev, Buran, light-aircraft, UAV, and missile programs.

For this catalog, the plant matters because the Kh-59 entry names Smolensk Aviation Plant alongside Raduga Design Bureau and Tactical Missile Armament Corporation. Official and sanctions sources describe SmAZ as part of Tactical Missile Armament Corporation and as a manufacturer or contractor for Kh-59-family guided air-launched missiles.

air-launched missilesunmanned aircraftflying targetsfrontline aviation assemblieslight aircraftaircraft repair and maintenance

Notable Systems

Kh-59, Air-launched cruise missile family, Munitions

Kh-59 / Kh-59M2 guided air-launched missiles

Air-launched cruise missile family

GUR's War & Sanctions profile says SmAZ manufactures Kh-59 missiles and is a main contractor for Russian Ministry of Defence state contracts for Kh-59M2/Kh-59M2A guided air missiles.

Sources: War & Sanctions: Joint-Stock Company Smolensk Aviation Plant

Kh-101 cruise-missile components

GUR reports SmAZ contracts with GosMKB Raduga for Kh-101 strategic cruise-missile supplies and manufactures or completes fuselages, fairings, wings, and bodies for Kh-101 cooperation work.

Sources: War & Sanctions: Joint-Stock Company Smolensk Aviation Plant

SM-92 Finist and SM-92P

KTRV's archived company profile lists the SM-92 Finist light multipurpose aircraft and the SM-92P patrol version among significant SmAZ projects.

Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile

Yak-18T, Yak-40, Yak-42, Yak-130, and M-55 Geofizika work

Official and regional industry profiles describe SmAZ's historic production, assembly, parts, or participation work on these civil, training, and special-purpose aviation programs.

Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile, Smolensk regional industrial catalog profile

Manufacturer History

  1. Repair-aviation plant opens

    KTRV's archived profile gives 8 November 1926 as the official formation date for Smolensk Repair Aviation Plant No. 3.

    Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile

  2. Yak-18T production begins

    KTRV says SmAZ prepared and launched Yak-18T production in 1972, with the type first flying in May 1973 and more than 500 produced by 1983.

    Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile

  3. Buran airframe work begins

    KTRV states that SmAZ began making wing, tail, and fuselage assembly elements for the Buran reusable aerospace plane from 1980.

    Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile

  4. Joint-stock conversion and SM-92 first flight

    The official SmAZ website says the enterprise became a joint-stock company in 1993; KTRV's profile also records the SM-92 Finist's first flight at Smolensk on 28 December 1993.

    Sources: Official SmAZ website, KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile

  5. Added to Tactical Missile Armament Corporation

    Official KTRV and Smolensk regional industry sources state that SmAZ became part of Tactical Missile Armament Corporation in 2004.

    Sources: KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profile, Smolensk regional industrial catalog profile

  6. Kh-59-family missile production documented

    GUR's War & Sanctions profile identifies SmAZ as a manufacturer of Kh-59 missiles and a main contractor for Kh-59M2/Kh-59M2A guided air-missile state contracts.

    Sources: War & Sanctions: Joint-Stock Company Smolensk Aviation Plant

Website links
Official websiteKTRV archived profileWar & Sanctions profile

SmAZ is a sanctioned Russian defense-industrial company, so the profile separates official Russian corporate/history sources from sanctions and open-data sources that document missile-production and legal-name context. Coordinates are omitted because this task did not verify a reliable open map source for precise headquarters coordinates.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official SmAZ websitePublisher: Smolensk Aviation Plant | Note: Official company website supports the plant name, Smolensk address, 1926 founding background, 1993 joint-stock conversion, 2004 Tactical Missile Armament Corporation ownership, current aviation-production and repair focus, and official website URL. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • KTRV archived Smolensk Aviation Plant profilePublisher: Tactical Missile Armament Corporation via Internet Archive | Note: Archived official parent-company profile supports SmAZ's 1926 formation, light-aircraft specialization, 2004 KTRV membership, historic aerospace projects, and listed defense or dual-use products including Kh-59, UAVs, flying targets, and aviation assemblies. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • War & Sanctions: Joint-Stock Company Smolensk Aviation PlantPublisher: Defence Intelligence of Ukraine War & Sanctions Portal | Note: Supports legal names, aliases, Smolensk address, Tactical Missile Systems Corporation membership, sanctions context, and documented manufacturing or contracting roles for Kh-59, Kh-59M2/Kh-59M2A, Kh-101 components, UAVs, flying targets, light aircraft, and aircraft maintenance. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • OpenSanctions: Joint Stock Company Smolensk Aircraft PlantPublisher: OpenSanctions | Note: Aggregates sanctions-list names and addresses, including alternate English names such as JSC Smolensk Aviation Plant and Joint Stock Company Smolensk Aircraft Plant, and summarizes EU/Swiss descriptions of the company as a Russian aircraft and missile manufacturer. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Smolensk regional industrial catalog profilePublisher: Center for Entrepreneurship Support of Smolensk Oblast | Note: Regional industry profile supports the 1926 founding, 2004 Tactical Missile Armament Corporation membership, Smolensk address, equipment base, final-assembly and flight-test capacity, and current production, maintenance, and spare-parts areas. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • SmAZ.JPGPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Image provenance for the builder profile: Happa's 2010 own-work photograph of the Smolensk Aviation Plant entrance is available on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 3.0 or GFDL 1.2+ licensing. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Munitions

Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.

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Kh-59, Air-launched cruise missile family, Munitions2014 Russia-Ukraine War, 2011 Syrian Civil WarKh-59Air-launched cruise missile familyBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe Kh-59 Ovod is a Soviet/Russian air-launched cruise missile family developed by Raduga for tactical standoff strike from combat aircraft. The family spans the original TV-guided Kh-59, turbojet-powered Kh-59M/ME, active-radar Kh-59MK anti-ship missile, satellite-guided Kh-59MK2 land-attack missile, and Kh-59MKM penetrator variant. Russia has used Kh-59-series missiles during the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War, and open sources separately describe caveated Kh-59MK2 combat-test reporting from Syria.