The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (russian: Таганрогский авиационный научно-технический комплекс им. Г. М. Бериева, , Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific Technical Complex), formerly Beriev Design Bureau, is a Russian aircraft manufacturer (design office prefix Be), specializing in

amphibious aircraft An amphibious aircraft or amphibian is an aircraft (typically fixed-wing) that can take off and land on both solid ground and water, though amphibious helicopters do exist as well. Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes ( flying boats ...

. The company was founded in Taganrog in the 1934 as OKB-49 by Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev, and since that time has designed and produced more than 20 different models of aircraft for civilian and military purposes, as well as customized models. Today the company employs some 3000 specialists and is developing and manufacturing amphibious aircraft. Pilots flying Beriev seaplanes have broken 228 world aviation records. The records are registered and acknowledged by the

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History

Georgy Mikhailovich Beriev founded the design bureau that bears his name at Taganrog in 1932. The traditional focus of the Beriyev Design Bureau has been the development of seaplanes for military and civilian use. The Bureau was moved to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia in 1942 to avoid destruction in World War II, and returned to Taganrog in 1945. In November 1989 Beriev became the only defense industry enterprise to win the Prize for Quality awarded by the Soviet Government.

Aircraft

* Antonov An-30, aerial cartography development of the Antonov An-24 *

Beriev A-40 The Beriev A-40 ''Albatros'' (NATO reporting name: Mermaid) is a Soviet/Russian jet engine amphibious aircraft designed by the Beriev Aircraft Company for the anti-submarine warfare role. Intended as a replacement for the Beriev Be-12 amphibian ...

''Albatros'', the largest multipurpose amphibian airplane in the world, NATO codename "Mermaid" * Beriev A-50 ''Shmel'', a modified

Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-76; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau. It was first planned as a comm ...

modified into an AWACS role, NATO codename "Mainstay" * Beriev A-60, a modified Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft, converted into an airborne laser laboratory in 1981 * Beriev A-100, a modified Ilyushin Il-476 AWACS that will succeed the A-50 and A-50U *

Beriev Be-1 The Beriev Be-1 was an experimental wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Design and development In 1956, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini approached the Beriev design bureau with a proposal for a Wing-In-Gr ...

, prototype wing-in-ground effect (WIG) aircraft *

Beriev Be-2 The Beriev Be-2 (originally designated KOR-1) was a two-seat reconnaissance seaplane built for the Soviet Navy shortly before World War II. It was designed to replace the Navy's obsolete license-produced Heinkel He 55 aircraft operating from war ...

, seaplane *

Beriev Be-4 The Beriev Be-4 (originally designated KOR-2) was a reconnaissance flying boat built to operate from Soviet warships during World War II. Design and development In 1939, Beriev was ordered to develop a successor to the KOR-1 design, which woul ...

, parasol-wing flying boat * Beriev Be-6, flying boat used for firefighting duty * Beriev Be-8, passenger/liaison amphibian *

Beriev Be-10 The Beriev Be-10, also known as Izdelye M, (NATO reporting name: Mallow) was a twin engined, turbojet powered, flying-boat, patrol bomber built by the Soviet Union from 1955. The Be-10 is sometimes referred to as the M-10, though this designatio ...

, jet-engined flying boat *

Beriev Be-12 The Beriev Be-12 ''Chayka'' ("Seagull", NATO reporting name: Mail) is a Soviet turboprop-powered amphibious aircraft designed in the 1950s for anti-submarine and maritime patrol duties. Design and development The Beriev Be-12 was a successo ...

''Chayka'', Amphibious aircraft, similar in function to the

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CL-415, used for anti-submarine warfare, based upon the Be-6. NATO codename "Mail" * Beriev Be-30, a regional airliner and utility transport aircraft *

Beriev Be-101 The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (russian: Таганрогский авиационный научно-технический комплекс им. Г. М. Бериева, , Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific Technical Complex), formerly Beriev ...

proposed light amphibian with one propeller engine * Beriev Be-103 ''Bekas'', a light amphibian, intended for passenger transport, medical aid, patrol and tourism *

Beriev Be-112 The Beriev Be-112 is a proposed amphibian aircraft with two propeller engines, projected to carry 27 passengers. The Beriev The PJSC Beriev Aircraft Company (russian: Таганрогский авиационный научно-техниче ...

proposed twin-engined propeller amphibian airplane *

Beriev Be-200 The Beriev Be-200 ''Altair'' (russian: Бериев Бе-200) is a utility amphibious aircraft designed and built by the Beriev Aircraft Company. Marketed as being designed for fire fighting, search and rescue, maritime patrol, cargo, and pass ...

''Altair'', a large multipurpose amphibian airplane * Beriev Be-32, a multipurpose airplane meant for cargo/passenger transport, patrol and expeditions. * Beriev A-42 Albatros, an updated version of A-40, recently adopted into service in a SAR and antisubmarine roles, production to begin in 2010. NATO codename "Mermaid". * Beriev A-42PE Albatros, a

Search and rescue Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search ...

(SAR) airplane, powered by propfan engines. * Beriev Be-2500 ''Neptun'', a proposed super-heavy amphibian cargo aircraft with a max takeoff weight of 2500 metric tons (planned) * Beriev MBR-2, reconnaissance flying-boat * Beriev MBR-7, reconnaissance, bomber flying-boat *

Beriev MDR-5 The Beriev MDR-5 (''Morskoi Dalnii Razvyeedchik'' - Long-range reconnaissance)(sometimes Beriev MS-5) was a Soviet long-range reconnaissance/bomber flying boat prototype developed by the Beriev design bureau at Taganrog. It did not enter producti ...

, long-range reconnaissance, bomber flying-boat *

Beriev R-1 The Beriev R-1 (known in-house as 'product R')Gordon, Sal'nikov and Zablotskiy 2006, p. 5. was the first Soviet turbojet-powered flying boat. Design and development At the end of World War II, design work began on a request from the Soviet Navy ...

, experimental jet-powered flying boat * Beriev S-13, a clone of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane.Yefim Gordon: Soviet X-Planes. Midland Publishing, 2000, *

Bartini Beriev VVA-14 The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 ''Vertikaľno-Vzletayushchaya Amfibiya'' ( vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s. Designed to be able to take off from the wa ...

, an amphibious anti-submarine aircraft, only prototypes were produced * Tupolev Tu-142MR

References

External links

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