Voronezh Aircraft Production Association

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OJSC Voronezh aircraft production association or Voronezh Aircraft Plant (Voronezhskoye Aktsionernoye Samoletostroitelnoe Obshestvo abbreviated as VASO, Russian: ОАО «Воронежское акционерное самолётостроительное общество», RTS:VASOP) is one of the largest aircraft producing plant in Russia.

Founded in 1932 in Voronezh (as Voronezh Aviation Plant, branch registry number 18).

Based in Pridacha Airport.

VASO also owned a now-defunct airline in Russia.

Notable planes built here are the Tupolev Tu-144, Ilyushin Il-86 and the Ilyushin Il-96