ПРЕСЕЉЕЊЕ (УНИШТЕЊЕ) СРПСКЕ АВИО-ИНДУСТРИЈЕ 1952-1961. - ПРИМЕР ИКАРУСА
THE TRANSLOCATION OF THE (DESTROYED) SERB AVIATION INDUSTRY 1952-1964 ILLUSTRATED BY THE CASE OF „IKARUS”

Summary/Abstract: In the early fifties the political and military leadership made the decision to begin moving Serbia’s aviation industry (Ikarus, Utva to the region of Mostar (the Soko factory. Old airplane factories, which had functioned with success for decades at commendable levels of technology and production, were forced to orient their production toward the civilian market. The main reason given for the translocation was the supposedly favorable geo-strategic position of the new site, and the need to reduce the production capacity of the military aviation industry in peacetime. Some of the experts in Ikarus expressed a subdued opposition to the translocation and destruction of companies with a long tradition in aviation. There was antagonism in the company towards the people from Soko who lobbied against the preservation of Ikarus as a military company. A decision was issued transferring leading experts of Ikarus to the Mostar Soko. Towards the end of the fifties party and government leaders demanded that the aviation industry be joined to the civil aviation industry aiming at the complete transformation of military companies into civil ones. The increasingly civil character of production in Ikarus was legally defined in 1960. Finally, in January 1960 the Federal Executive Council rendered a decision removing Ikarus from the list of military companies.

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