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Bulgaria - Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa (DAR) Aircraft

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From left to right: DAR-6, DAR-5, DAR-4, DAR-3, DAR-2, DAR-1, Bozhurishte airfield, Bulgaria, 1934

​Darzhavna aeroplanna rabotilnitsa - State Aircraft Workshops), abbreviated DAR, was the first Bulgarian aircraft manufacturer, established in 1924 at Bojourishte.

Initially they were involved in repairing German aircraft then in use in Bulgaria, DAR soon began producing copies of some of these ("DAR Uzunov-1", "DAR 2"), before moving on to licensed production of the Focke-Wulf Fw 44.

The workshops produced a number of original designs, some of these were produced
"DAR 1",
"DAR 1A" - 12 pieces,
"DAR 3" - 24 pcs.,
"DAR 4",
​"DAR 6" - 6 pcs.,
"DAR 8" - 12 pcs.,
"DAR 9", "DAR 11" - 12 pcs.

Others never proceeded past prototype stage
"DAR 5",
"DAR 7",
"DAR 10"

Although aircraft manufacture was moved to the Darzhavna Samoletna Fabrika - State Airplane Factory, in Lovech in 1940, the designers remained in DAR. 
The final design, the DAR 11 fighter of 1941 never left the drawing board. DAR was closed after 1945 and the personnel and facilities were moved to the DSF in Lovech.

Aircraft Produced

  • DAR Uzunov-1 (DAR U-1) - DFW C.Va
  • DAR 1 Peperuda ('Butterfly')
  • DAR 2 - Albatros C.III
  • DAR 3 Garvan ('Raven' or Laz-3)
    • DAR 3(I) prototype
    • DAR 3(I.bis)
    • DAR Garvan-I
    • DAR Garvan-II
    • DAR Garvan-III
  • DAR 4
  • DAR 5 Brambar ('Beetle')
  • DAR 6
    • DAR 6(I)
    • DAR 6(II)
    • DAR 6A
  • DAR 7
  • DAR 7 SS.1
  • DAR 8 Slavei (or Slavey, 'Nightingale')
    • DAR 8A
  • DAR-9 Siniger ('Titmouse' or 'Tomtit')
    • DAR 9 Series I
    • DAR 9A
  • DAR-10 Bekas ('Snipe')
    • DAR 10A (c/n 94)
    • DAR 10F (c/n 316)
  • DAR 11 Lyastovitsa ('Swallow') - 50 planned licensed Czech Avia B.135s (12 built)
  • DAR Albatros Albatros
  • DAR Chuchuliga Chuchuliga
  • DAR Rilski Orel Rilski Orel
  • DAR Zdravka Toprakchiev (ДАР Здравка Топракчиев)
  • DAR Zdravka Vekilski (ДАР Здравка Векилски)
  • Lazarov Drangov - Tsvetan Lazarov

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