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101 | 1 share | 1901, green & black | 1400 #0107 |
VF | €5850 Boone Oct 2021 |
“Dux” J. A. Meller Joint Stock Company
Акционерное Общество “Дуксь” Ю. А. Меллера
Dux, von Jules Möller AG
Other city spellings: Moscou, Moskau
Formed in 1900 in Moscow. Initial capital was 350,000 roubles in shares of 250 roubles.
1900
Description
The Dux was the first armed aircraft built in Russia. It was a pusher biplane with a machine-gun in the nose, intended for ground attack. The enterprise was started in 1893 to build bicycles, and later cars and other vehicles. In 1909 it worked with other factories to build Russia’s first airship, and later that year started to build aeroplanes also. Ten years later the Dux factory was Russia’s largest aircraft-factory, building mostly foreign designs. By 1917 it was building nearly 500 military aircraft a year (heavily supported by the Tsar). The first Moscow airport was DUX’s company airport on Petersburg Avenue. In the 1920s, the state design and building plant was established in the old Dux factory under the name “State Aircraft Factory No.1”. It became the base for the Mikoyan designs, famous for the range of front-line aircraft from the MiG-15 of the 1950s up to today’s models.