History

In the period from June 24 to July 23, 1941, as part of the 8th Air Army, in accordance with the order of the Commander of the South-Western Front, at warehouse No. 2 of the NPO in Kharkov, the 38th mobile aviation repair railway workshops (military unit 21951) were formed. An experienced organizer and specialist, engineer of the 3rd rank Vladimir Alexandrovich Rostislavov, was appointed head of the 38th PARM.

Moving along the railways, the workshops were to be based near the front line in order to quickly repair aircraft damaged in battle. However, due to the lack of necessary rolling stock (except for 3 cars), on August 1, 1941, by order of the Air Force Headquarters of the South-Western Military District, they were transferred to the 257 stationary aircraft workshops in Kharkov and as part of the 257 SAW on October 1, 1941, they were evacuated to the city of Uryupinsk, Stalingrad Region.

Upon arrival at their new location, the workshops were located on the territory of state stables, which were quickly converted into production premises and workshops.

Based on the order of the UERTU of the Air Force of the Red Army No. 386 and the order of the repair department of the Air Force Headquarters of the South-Western Front of October 26, 1941, the 257th SAW was relocated to the city of Sorochinsk, Chkalov Region, and the 38th PARM remained in Uryupinsk and began to function as an independent combat unit.

From November 16, the 38th PARM began to restore the Su-2 light bombers, U-2 aircraft, M-88 and M-11 engines of the 8th Air Army of the Air Force of the South-Western Front. During combat work in Uryupinsk, in less than a year, the personnel of the workshops returned to service 151 aircraft and 143 aircraft engines.

For the operational repair of aircraft damaged in combat, repair teams of the PARM-3 type were formed from the workshops in January 1942 and transferred to the city of Leninsk, Stalingrad Region, to repair aircraft at field airfields and airstrips.

According to the directive of the Commander of the Air Force of the Red Army No. 4596 of July 11, 1942, the 38th PARM of the 8th Air Army relocated from Uryupinsk beyond the Volga, to the Bezymyannaya station in the Saratov Region. The workshops received a special aircraft repair train, which housed all the technical equipment, tools and personnel.

From that moment on, the workshops fully corresponded to their name and purpose — to be as close as possible to their units to ensure the rapid restoration of aircraft damaged in battles. In this train, the 38th PARM traveled the combat path from Stalingrad to East Prussia for the remainder of the Great Patriotic War.

In the second half of 1942, when the Battle of Stalingrad began, the workshops, in addition to Su-2 and Po-2 aircraft and their engines, began to repair Il-2 attack aircraft, Hurricane fighters and AM-38, Merlin XX, M-82 engines.

The team of repair aviators on the Stalingrad Front did invaluable work in the struggle for the second life of shot down, half-burnt aircraft — rising literally from the ashes, they again rushed into the sky to fight the enemy.

In 1943, the situation changed. The front was rapidly moving west. In February, the workshops were relocated to the Afrosimovsky siding, in May to the Proletarskaya station, in October to the city of Donetsk.

On the initiative of the commander of the 38th PARM, mobile aircraft repair teams were in combat regiments for the rapid restoration of aircraft in the field.

In early 1944, an order was received to relocate to Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, to become part of the 1st Air Army.

After the liberation of Crimea, the 38th PARM were transferred to the 3rd Belorussian Front and relocated in July 1944 to the Yelnya station in the Smolensk Region, where they participated in providing the "Bagration" operation to liberate Belarus.

The unit was relocated to Gumbinnen, now Gusev, Kaliningrad Region, and continued its combat work to restore aircraft until the end of the Great Patriotic War.

During the war years, the personnel of the unit restored 286 aircraft of various types, which is equivalent to the size of 8-9 air regiments, and repaired 1,285 aircraft engines of various types.

The workshops were relocated to the city of Novoyelnya, Grodno Region, and became part of the 26th Air Army.

From May 1953, the permanent base of the unit becomes the city of Baranovichi, Brest Region.

By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, the 38th Order of the Red Star Mobile Railway Workshops were transferred to the staff of an aircraft repair base with the assignment of the name "32nd Order of the Red Star Military Base" subordinate to the 26th Air Army.

In the same year, the military base moved from railway cars to new production premises on the current territory.

Thus ended the 17-year "rail period". After moving to a new location, the base team began mastering the repair of the first Soviet front-line bomber Il-28.

Due to the transition to the staff of an aviation base and the assignment of a new name ("32nd Order of the Red Star Military Base"), on February 14, 1961, the unit's banner was handed over to the Central Museum of the Soviet Army, and the Order of the Red Star — to the Main Personnel Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

During this period, the plant began major repairs of handling equipment, 8K63 training missiles and refueling mock-ups 8K63D, serial production of complex simulators for combat crews of silo-based ballistic missile systems with 8K63 (R-12) and 8K65 (R-14) missiles — 15K3 and 15K5.

The work of the plant's team was highly appreciated by the command of the country's Air Force. In February 1970, the team received a Diploma from the USSR Council of Ministers and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in the all-Union review for improving the culture of production.

The enterprise was transformed into an open joint-stock company "558 Aviation Repair Plant"

A structure for the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles was created at OJSC "558 ARZ"

Since 2015, OJSC "558 ARZ" has been implementing an enterprise development program in the field of production of parts and assemblies for the benefit of aircraft manufacturing enterprises.

A new workshop with an area of 2160 m2 was put into operation, equipped with modern machine tools that allow the production of parts of varying complexity and nomenclature from aluminum and titanium alloys, structural, heat-resistant and stainless steels.

Today, the total production area equipped with machine tools and technological equipment is more than 13,000 m². The machine park has more than 30 CNC machines and more than 40 units of universal equipment.

On the basis of OJSC "558 Aviation Repair Plant", a solemn ceremony was held to transfer from the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation the Battle Banner, a copy of the certificate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the order book, as well as a duplicate of the Order of the Red Star to OJSC "558 Aviation Repair Plant". The relics transferred by the Russian side will henceforth be kept in the museum of OJSC "558 ARZ".

Since 2023, within the framework of the Comprehensive Interdepartmental Program for Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the field of aircraft construction, the implementation of the project for the development and organization of serial production of the twin-engine 19-seat light multi-purpose aircraft "Osvey" has begun.

A workshop for assembly of airframe parts has been put into operation. The workshop was built to perform work on the slipway assembly of the cockpit canopy frame, cockpit door, emergency exit door, cargo door, fin, rudder, elevator, stabilizer, engine mount.