Viborn Aeronautics
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Native name | Виборн Аэронавтика |
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Romanized name | Viborn Aeronavtika |
| Aircraft/propulsion designer/manufacturer | |
| Traded as | VA |
| Industry | Aerospace |
| Founded | 1920, in Viborn, Librira |
| Founder | Vitalyi Viborn |
| Headquarters | 15 Delta street, , |
| Products | Military aircraft, Civilian Aircraft, Aircraft propulsion |
| Revenue | 500 Million L$ (2017) |
| Total assets | 4.5 Billion L$ (2017) |
| Owner | Viborn Aeronautics Syndicate, Gregoryi Viborn |
Number of employees | ~5000 |
| Website | www.VibornAero.Lr |
Viborn Aeronautics(Libriran:" Виборн Аэронавтика") is a large Aircraft designer and manufacturer in Librira. Founded, officially in 1920 by Vitalyi Viborn, as a partial syndicate. It is the largest aircraft and aerospace company in Librira. The company designs, and builds propulsion and air frames. The company operates one of the largest and most advanced jet engine businesses in Librira, Viborn engines have powered over 50% of Libriran aircraft designs. The company holds the distinction of designing Librira's first super-sonic aircraft, its first after-burning Jet engine, Its first jet aircraft, and its first 5th generation fighter. The company is based in the eponymous city of Viborn which is also home to the companies workers.
History
Viborn Aeronautics was founded in 1920, as part of a government program to jump-start the Libriran Aviation industry. Vitalyi Viborn who was already recognized as a talented engineer won a state contest, and was given grant money to start a design workshop. He opened a design shop, and small engine foundry, on the coast of Aker bay, and officially founded his enterprise. His system of management of running a partial syndicate, with himself owning 15% of the company and the workers the rest, combined with his construction of many infrastructure projects to support his workers, earned him praise within the government and plenty of hopeful employees. His factory village would eventually expand into the city it is today.
In the early days the company focused of propulsion, and aerodynamic technology, trying to increase power, performance, and reliability on components. His developments earned him and his company a reputation for being on the forefront of the field, and allowed him to expand even further into designing his own aircraft.
the 1930s saw an expansion of the Libriran MAS, and with it Viborn branched out into aircraft production, although Viborn's advanced Viborn Type-01 fighter prototype lost out to the cheaper and more conventional LA-105 the company continued to innovate, designing a series of fast heavy fighters and light bombers for the MAS. During the war the Viborn factory was at full capacity producing La-105s. Early in the war the factory was considered in danger, and was bombed at times by Dasmarian bombers. The factory was defended by regular MAS units and experimental Viborn fighters.
Following the war Viborn designed and built the country's first jet aircraft, the companies influence in Libriran aviation increased, as it continued to expand its production facilities. In 1970 Vitalyi Viborn died, and passed on his partial ownership on to his son, Ivan Viborn who had been employed as head engineer in the design shop.
Today Viborn constructs mainly military aircraft, though it does have entrants in the civilian aviation market, and its family of jet engines powers aircraft in the civilian market not designed by them. Viborn Aeronautics is considered one of the best workplaces in the aerospace industry and in all of Librira.
Structure
The company is organized in a fairly flat hierarchy. The Company is managed by a management council, chaired by Ivan Viborn, and the heads of the company's various division, for instance, its propulsion, air frame construction, etc divisions. Each division typically operates together in their joint fields, but for the most part is managed separately and is allowed to pursue projects that may be unrelated to their work with other divisions, and sometimes counter to it. This has lead to odd situations where the company has competed against itself. However the department heads generally hold joint meetings to avoid these situations.
these divsions then further subdivide into further projects, depending on what is being worked on at the time. Due to the at times sensitive nature of projects, particularly for the military; inside a company division there may not be cross-communication between project leads and their teams. Divison heads try to avoid 'siloing' by shifting and rotating teams particularly on long ranging projects, so that cross-communication can occur and so that if a particular problem is plaguing a team its solution can potentially be found by a new set of eyes.