Aeronautical Technical Institute (ATI), (Serbian language: Vazduhoplovno-tehnički institut, VTI) was a Yugoslav design bureau for designing military aircraft. It existed from 1946 to 1992, and was located in Žarkovo, near Belgrade. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the JNA, the institute was merged into the MTI - Military Technical Institute Belgrade (Serbian language: VTI - Vojnotehnički Institut Beograd). Airplanes designed by the institute include the J-20 Kraguj, the G-2 Galeb, the G-4 Super Galeb, the J-22 Orao and the Novi Avion. Currently active aircraft programs are Lasta 95 trainer and Kobac counter-insurgency aircraft.
Aircraft designed by VTI were produced by manufacturers such as SOKO (Mostar) and UTVA (Pančevo).
Facilities[]
- Open return wind tunnel T-31
- Closed return wind tunnel T-32
- Cavitation water tunnel T-33
- Smoke wind tunnel T-34 for flow visualization
- Large closed return wind tunnel, with transsonic chamber T-35
- Supersonic wind tunnel T-36
- Hypersonic wind tunnel T-37
- Trisonic wind tunnel T-38. Developed and built in cooperation with companies from Canada and USA. Purposely built to support development of Novi Avion, missiles and other similar advanced programs.
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