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Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is a Russian aircraft and helicopter manufacturer in Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, best known in this catalog for serial production and modernization of Mi-8/17-family helicopters, including Mi-8AMT, Mi-171, and Mi-8AMTSh/Mi-171Sh variants.
2 weaponsFounded in 1939 as Aircraft Repair Plant No. 99, the Ulan-Ude plant moved from wartime aircraft repair and fighter production into helicopter manufacturing in the Soviet period. Its public company history describes production across Soviet design bureaus, including Kamov coaxial helicopters and Mil's Mi-8 family.
For the WeaponsOfConflict catalog, the plant matters chiefly as one of the industrial sources behind Mi-8/Mi-17-family utility and transport helicopters. The plant reports that Mi-8AMT/Mi-171, Mi-8AMTSh/Mi-171Sh, Mi-171A2, and related support and training work form the center of its current production role.
The enterprise is wholly owned by Russian Helicopters, which is part of Rostec. Public sanctions datasets identify Joint Stock Company Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant as a sanctioned Russian defense-industrial entity, so sourcing for current ownership and legal names is split between official Russian pages and sanctions records.
The plant began serial Mi-8 production in 1970 and later made Mi-8AMT/Mi-171 and Mi-8AMTSh/Mi-171Sh variants central to its helicopter output.
Sources: U-UAZ company history, Russian Helicopters structureU-UAZ states that it began serial manufacture of the Mi-171A2 in 2017 and uses the type in its current training-center work.
Sources: U-UAZ company history, Rostec Mi-171A2 trainingThe plant history identifies the military transport Mi-8AMTSh and its Mi-171Sh export version as production lines launched in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Sources: U-UAZ company history, Vertical 75th anniversaryThe plant traces its history to the creation of Aircraft Repair Plant No. 99 in Ulan-Ude, initially repairing I-16 fighters and SB bombers.
Sources: U-UAZ company history, Vertical 75th anniversary
The enterprise marks 1956 as the start of its helicopter manufacturing era, beginning with Kamov coaxial helicopter models.
Sources: Vertical 75th anniversary
U-UAZ began serial production of Mil Mi-8 helicopters, establishing the product family that later became its main catalog-relevant output.
Sources: U-UAZ company history, Vertical 75th anniversary
The plant began producing the Mi-8AMT, marketed for export as the Mi-171E, followed by military transport and export variants later in the decade.
Sources: U-UAZ company history
The plant states that it began serial manufacture of the Mi-171A2, a newer Mi-8/17-family development with modernized cockpit and rotor-system features.
Sources: U-UAZ company history
Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is a Russian state-defense industrial supplier under sanctions in multiple jurisdictions. Official Russian company pages are useful for production history and current product lines, while sanctions datasets are used here only for legal aliases, address/control context, and the sourcing caveat.
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Crewed aircraft, drones, and loitering munitions.
