Aviation Express

Tupolev is a Soviet, and later a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. Known officially as Joint Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design office prefix Tu) headed by the Soviet aerospace engineer A.N. Tupolev. The company celebrated its 90th anniversary on October 22, 2012. The Russian government merged Tupolev with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, and Yakovlev as a new company named the United Aircraft Corporation.

The capabilities of PSC Tupolev include development, manufacturing, and overhaul for both civil and military aerospace products such as aircraft and weapons systems. It is also active with missile and naval aviation technologies. More than 18,000 Tupolev aircraft were produced for the USSR and the Eastern Bloc.

• Tu-104 "Camel" medium-range airliner developed from the Tu-16

• Tu-114 Rossiya "Cleat" long-range airliner developed from the Tu-95

• Tu-116 two Tu-95 bombers fitted with passenger cabins

• Tu-124 "Cookpot" a short-haul jet airliner developed from the Tu-104

• Tu-134 "Crusty" a rear-engine evolution of the Tu-124

• Tu-144 "Charger" a world's first supersonic airliner

• Tu-154 "Careless" a medium-range narrow-body jet airliner

• Tu-204 a medium-range narrow-body jet airliner

• Tu-214 Tu-204-200's built at a different factory

• Tu-224 Tu-214 powered by two Rolls-Royce RB211 engines

• Tu-234 internal designation for the Tu-204-300