MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association (Russian: Московское авиационное производственное объединение, romanized: Moskovskoye aviatsionnoye proizvodstvennoye obyedineniye) was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer.
[6] In January 1996, a decree of President Boris Yeltsin established MAPO VPK, which combined 12 different aviation companies, including MAPO-MiG, Kamov, Klimov, the Chernyshev Machine Building Enterprise and Aviabank.
[6] Unlike Sukhoi, which managed to secure export contracts with China and India, MAPO continued to be unprofitable throughout the 1990s.
[7] In December 1999, MAPO was renamed Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG.
[8] In 2006, MAPO merged with Sukhoi and several other Russian aviation companies to form United Aircraft Corporation.