Airframe & structures
Welders, riveters, machinists and structural inspectors who keep airframe geometry within type-design tolerances.
About
03 Plant leadership and team
Staff
A director with five decades on the Tbilisi floor, and a workforce that holds the institutional memory of Su-25 production.
Director · since 1978
Leadership
Vaja Tordia.
Founder & Director · TAM Management LLC
Born 1935 · Etseri, Georgia
Honorary Citizen of Tbilisi · 2000
Prof. Tbilisi Aviation Inst. · 2002
Pantiko (Vazha) Tordia. Aircraft designer and mechanical engineer. Graduated from the Saratov Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and joined the Tbilisi Dimitrov Aviation Plant the same year. Director of the plant since 1978. Founded TAM Management LLC in 2015 and restarted continuous operations on the same factory floor where he began his career.
Under his direct leadership the factory entered serial production of the Su-25 attack aircraft and its modifications, as well as the R-60 and R-73 air-to-air missile lines.
Read the full biographyWorkforce
The team behind the floor.
Engineers, technicians, machinists, quality inspectors and pilots. Many of the senior staff have been on the floor since the Soviet era; the rest are post-2015 hires trained on contemporary integration work.
Powerplant & hydraulics
Engine specialists, hydraulics technicians and fuel-system engineers running test cells and overhaul lines.
Avionics & integration
Electrical, sensor and weapons-integration engineers, with the Design Bureau driving systems work end-to-end.
Quality & certification
Quality inspectors and engineers working against ISO 9001:2015, EN 9100:2018 and customer airworthiness requirements.
Flight test & training
Test pilots, instructor pilots and simulator technicians delivering type-rating and continuation training.
Design Bureau
Aircraft and systems designers working from clean-sheet engineering through to in-service modifications.