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Kayseri Tayyare Fabrikasi (KTF)

 Aircraft Factory Kayseri:

The former TOMTAS aircraft plants were re-opened in 1932 as Aircraft Factory Kayseri. With a staff of about 1000 persons employed, the factory manufactured aircraft with foreign licenses for the Turkish Air Force until 1942. At he beginning of World War II, the factory retired to mostly only maintenance activities, so that it had withdraw from the aircraft production gradually. The factory became the 2nd Air Supply and Maintenance Center in 1950 (2. Hava Ikmal ve Bakim Merkezi, 2.HIBM).   

In 1934 the president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal ATATÜRK, decided to present the first Turkish manufactured Curtiss Fledgling 2 C1 training aircraft to Iran. According to the confirmed information from Iran, the aircraft was still in operation in December 1943.  

In order to be come self-sufficient and because of increasing, import requirements for gliders in Turkey, their domestic production was  established. Therefore, one copy of each aircraft model procured from the USSR were divided, each part was measured, and technical drawings were made. Subsequently the aircrafts were copied. This practice of construction ( reverse engineering) was also used later by Nuri Demirag, by the Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK) and by the Mechanical and Chemical Industries Corporation (MKEK).

Manufacturer

Licenser

Type

Date

Quantity

Remarks

KTF

Curtiss-Wright Co. - USA

Curtiss Hawk II

1933-1939

46

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

Curtiss-Wright Co. - USA

Curtiss Fledgling 2 C1

1933

8

Licensed Manufacture, one a/c to Iran

KTF

Gothaer Waggonfabrik, Abteilung Flugzeugbau - D

Gotha 145A

1936-1939

43

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

Panstwowe Lotnicze - PL

Pezetel P-24A 

1937

6

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

Panstwowe Lotnicze - PL

Pezetel P-24C 

1937-1939

19

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

Panstwowe Lotnicze - PL

Pezetel P-24G

1939

2

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

Miles Aircraft Ltd. - GB

Miles Magister 14A Mk.I

1942

26

Licensed Manufacture

KTF

USSR

US-4

1935

11

Reverse engineering of the glider

KTF

USSR

PS-2

1935

11

Reverse engineering of the sailplane

KTF

USSR

G-9

1935

6

Reverse engineering of the glider, ex Sch-5

The KTF - Pezetel P-24G with its wrong c/n 2015, displayed at the aviation museum at Yesilköy/Istanbul.

The KTF - Curtiss Hawk II (c/n 1532) on the apron.

The KTF - Curtiss Fledgling 2 C1 (c/n 1405).

The KTF – Gotha 145A (c/n 1819)
at the KTF factory.

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