2009

Medium multi-role Ka-32A11BC certified for commercial use by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

2008

The military Ka-52 Alligator goes into mass production.

2007

Russian Helicopters group formed.

2003

New ultra-heavy multi-role Mi38 makes maiden flight.

1998

Multi-role Ka-60 produced for the Russian Air Force makes its maiden flight.

1997

Light multi-role Ka-226 makes maiden flight.

1996

Mi-28N Night Hunter, a day-night all-weather military helicopter, makes its maiden flight.

OJSC Kamov established.

1991

N.I. Kamov Ukhta Helicopter Plant renamed as N.I. Kamov Helicopter Scientific and Technical Complex

1987

Ka-31 early-warning radar helicopter makes maiden flight.

1986

The multi-role and training Mi-34C – the only helicopter to have performed stunts – makes its maiden flight.

1983

Mi-1, the first Mil helicopter, officially withdrawn from use, having set 27 world records.

1982

Single-seat strike Ka-50 Black Shark makes its maiden flight.

1980

Civilian multi-role Ka-32 makes its maiden flight.

1977

Super-heavy Mi-26 transport – which holds the world record for lifting capacity to this day – makes its maiden flight.

1976

Prototype Ka-29, a military transport helicopter, makes its maiden flight.

1974

Ukhta Helicopter Plant given the name of its chief constructor, Nikolai Kamov.

1973

Test model of the multi-role transport Ka-27 takes off for the first time.

1971

The V-12 – a four-engine, dual-rotor transport helicopter – demonstrated to great acclaim at the 29th Le Bourget air show near Paris.

1970

Plant number 329 renamed the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant.

1969

Mi-24, the world’s most experienced attack helicopter, in service in more than 50 countries worldwide, makes its maiden flight.

1967

The V-12, the largest helicopter ever built, makes its maiden flight.

1966

More than 700 Mi-4s sold to 34 countries in one decade.

1965

The Mi-10K, the “flying crane”, a high-tech transport helicopter, takes off for the first time.

1963

Fibreglass blades first made for the Ka-15.

Mi-6 officially adopted by the Soviet and other Armed Forces for military operations.

1962

Mi-6 takes off with a 20.1-ton load. At the time, it was the world’s heaviest-lifting and fastest helicopter.

1961

The Ka-25, the first Russian naval helicopter, takes off for the first time.

Light multi-role Mi-2, for many years the basic training and sports helicopter, makes its maiden flight.

Maiden flight of the medium multi-role Mi-8, the heaviest mass-produced helicopter. More than 12,000 have been produced.

Maiden flight of the Mi-14, the world’s largest amphibian helicopter, able to take off from and land and be based on water.

1959

Ka-22 rotary-wing aircraft makes its first flight under test pilot D.K. Yefremov.

1958

First experimental Ka-22 rotary-wing aircraft assembled, with transverse twin-screw engines.

1957

Test pilot R.I. Kaprelyan makes the first flight in the heavy transport Mi-6, which laid the foundations for Russian superiority in civilian-use heavy helicopters.

Ka-18 completes state testing and enters mass production. One hundred and eleven machines are produced over a 20-year span.

The experimental V-7 series, with wing-mounted turbojet engines, enters production.

1956

Mass production of Ka-15 begins at aviation plant number 99 in Ulan-Ude.

1953

Test pilot D.K. Yefremov makes the first flight of the multi-role Ka-15.

1952

Multi-role transport Mi-4 makes its maiden flight, laying the foundation for Russian helicopter aviation.

1951

Mikhail Mil and the OKB constructors’ collective create the Mi-1.

Work starts on the development of the Mi-4 transport helicopter.

1949

First ultra-small Ka-10 built.

1948

Light multi-role Mi-1 makes maiden flight.

Irkutyanin demonstrates truck-based take-off and landing at an air show in Tushino.

Nikolai Kamov’s construction bureau OKB-2, later to become the Ukhta Helicopter Plant, officially founded.

1947

Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute forms a helicopter laboratory led by the brilliant constructor Mikhail Mil.

Test and construction bureau formed, led by Mikhail Mil.

First Ka-8 built.

1945

Nikolai Kamov begins work on the ultra-small one-seat coaxial Irkutyanin.

1940

Nikolai Kamov heads up the first plant building rotary-wing aircraft.

1929

Nikolai Kamov, the brilliant designer, builds the first KASKR-1 gyroplane.