Polish AVIATION VALLEY & PZL & WSK
AVIATION VALLEY: Please have a look in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxZNtjkPpSE)
Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze (= [former] State owned Aviation Works (Plural; meaning a convolute of 20+ works) have been the main Polish aerospace manufacturer of the interwar period, with head quarters based in Warsaw and subsidiaries widely spread over Poland, functioning in 1928-1939.
The abbreviation which thereafter - from late 1950s - used as on aircraft brand and as a part of names of Several Polish state-owned aerospace manufacturers referring to traditions of the PZL, belonging to the Zjednoczenie Przemysłu Lotniczego i Silnikowego PZL - PZL Aircraft and Engine Industry Union.
After the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, those manufacturers became separate plants, still sharing the PZL name, but are the following completely independant companies transfered into private ownership by Polish Industrial Development Agency - IDA JSC - Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu - ARP (By Polish state owned trust agency for privatizing):
- Polskie Zaklady Lotnicze Sp.z.o.o. in Mielec (also "PZL Mielec"; Sikorsky - Lockheed-Martin, PZL MIELEC)
- EADS PZL Warszawa-Okecie" S.A. Warsaw (AIRBUS (EADS-PL) / CASA, EADS PZL > Home)
which are the largest companies.
About 15 other smaller PZL-works, mainly former pure military-oriented maintenance and repair shops or plants became companies of the state owned PGZ-Holding (formerly BUMAR) and are for investors due to their sizes and partly poor infrastructure relatively uninteresting.
The custard pies are already privatized and are in strong hands.
I would be pleased if there is an echo to this new thread and please reply frankly which topics / questions might be worth a discussion. Also further facts to AVIATION VALLEY and PZL are always welcome.
Thank you,
AW009
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