Private company

Zmaj aircraft

Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer

Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај), officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and Hydroplane Factory Zmaj), was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer.2 It ceased to exist in 1946.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1927Founded1
  • Industryaircraft industry1
  • HeadquartersZemun1
  • Legal formcorporation1

Zmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Змај), officially named Fabrika aeroplana i hidroaviona Zmaj (English: Airplane and Hydroplane Factory Zmaj), was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer.2

The story

The company was founded in 1927 and it was the third aeronautical factory in Serbia. At the beginning it manufactured aircraft under French license, and in 1932 it started with local planes designed by Jovan Petrović and Dragoljub Šterić. Several types of aircraft were manufactured by Zmaj, among them passenger Spartans for the domestic airliner Aeroput. Zmaj workshops manufactured 359 aircraft up until 1946, when the factory stopped manufacturing for aviation industry purposes and the company was nationalised and merged with Rogožarski into Ikarus.

From Wikipedia’s article on Zmaj Aircraft, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 1946Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1927Founded Founded1

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