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Company Termikas Ltd. is now working for 25 years in aircraft, engines and gliders world market.

Main goal of the company is to provide high quality overhauled YAK type aircraft, perform their maintenance, repairs, overhaul engines and propellers. We are also allowed to work on Western type aircraft e.g. Cessna, Piper, Mooney, Socata.

We comply with laws and requirements of Lithuanian CAA and EASA Part 145.

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Sukhoi SU29 & FockeWulf FW44 / 2017 06 25

Company "Termikas" is a halfway between the west and the east - German and Russian aircraft meet in in our hangars.

In December 1922 Hugo Junkers and the Soviet Government signed a contract about the setup of an aircraft facility at Fili in Moscow. This facility should be used for the construction and maintenance of a basic fleet used by the Soviet Air Force. Junkers was responsible for the setup of the production facility, as well as for the design of several aircraft types, which were required by the Soviet Air Force. The first aircraft to be designed for the Soviet forces was a reconnaissance seaplane, for which the Soviet Government placed an order of 20 aircraft. Junkers started this design under the designator J20, also Type 20. To fullfill the Soviet request, Zindel and Mader decided to base their new design directly on the Junkers J11 seaplane design of 1918 and the first J20 was first flown already in March 1922. During the following months Junkers was engaged in the setup of the production plant at Fili and in November 1922 the first Russian built J20, now designated as Ju20, flew first at Leningrad. A total of 20 Junkers Ju20 were built during 1923 at Fili and were delivered to the Soviet Navy as reconaissance aircraft during that year.

Hoping that the German specialists would create with the USSR a base for aircraft and engine construction that matched the latest scientific and technological achievements, the Soviet leadership did not devote sufficient attention to the efforts of domestic scientists and aircraft designers. Up to one-third of the funds allocated for USSR aviation development went to Junkers. The Fili plant had a production area occupying 15,000 square meters and was the largest enterprise of its time. More than 1000 workers were employed there by early 1925 compared to just 5114 in the entire Soviet aircraft industry.

By the late 1920s and early 1930s, Germany remained the most active partner of the USSR in the aircraft industry. During that period, ready-made products and production licenses were bought from such well-known German companies as Dornier, Heinkel and BMW. Negotiations on technical assistance were held with several other German aircraft firms.

In the 80s of the last century, the USSR Ministry of Defense actively experimented with composite materials in the aviation industry. The only factory in the USSR producing composite gliders was our current "Sportinė Aviacija" ( "LAK Sailplanes" ), which became an excellent experimental base.The first composite glider BK-7 “Lietuva” ( BK-7 "Lithuania" ) was built in 1972. SUKHOI Design Bureau's engineers spent a lot time working here also.