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Nikolai Polikarpov

4 aircraft types.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer, known as the "King of Fighters". He designed the I-15 series of fighters, and the revolutionary I-16 monoplane fighter. In 1939 he lost his design bureau to Gurevich and Mikoyan; in 1943 he was appointed professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, but in died in July 1944.

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Aircraft types

Polikarpov BDP
1940s Soviet military transport glider
Polikarpov I-180
Polikarpov I-180
type of aircraft
First flight 1938
Polikarpov I-185
Polikarpov I-185
Soviet fighter aircraft designed in 1940
First flight 1941
Polikarpov NB
type of aircraft
First flight 1944