EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: UFA

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000046 SIPDIS SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: UFA ENGINE-BUILDING PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION (UMPO),UFA, RUSSIA, LICENSE NO. NLR ¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. ¶2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Ufa Engine-Building Production Association (UMPO),Ufa, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license application: NLR as the ultimate consignee of two laser discs for reproducing sound/image and accessories. ECCN 3D991. The exporter is National Instruments, 11500 N. Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX ¶78759. ¶3. On December 18, 2007, Export Control Attache Peter Liston and FSN Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment verification with UMPO, Ufa, Russia. The export control team met with Vyacheslav Khristolyubov, Director of Informational Technologies. ¶4. Ufa Engine Building Production Association [Ufa engine-building PO] is Russia's largest aircraft engine producer. Engines for tractors, gas pumping and power units, as well as cutlery, are among other products manufactured. It is located in Bashkortostan Republic, which has the second largest industrial potential in the Ural economic area. Within Russia, Bashkortostan is the sixth largest producer of industrial products. Ufa Engine Industrial Association [Ufa Motors] produces aircraft engines for fighters (Su and MiG families),spare parts as well as engines for automobiles, gas pumps and turbines and performs different maintenance and support services for its clients. In 1995 the company was granted export rights. Ufa Motors is one of the most profitable engine manufacturers with steadily growing sales. The Ufa Engine Industrial Association (the UMPO in Russian) was founded in 1925. The association launched the production of the first Soviet jet engines such as RD-10, RD-45F, and VK-1A for the MiG and Yak fighters. Since the mid-fifties, the Ufa-based Engine Production Association has been manufacturing the Mikoyan MiG-19 RD-9B turbo-jet engines, as well as R11F-300 engines for the MiG-21 fighter. Later, the plant developed the production of the R11F2-300, R11F2S-300, R-13-300, R25-300 derivatives for various MiG-21 and Su-15 versions, as well as the production of the R-29B-300 and R29B9-300 third-generation engines intended for the Mikoyan MiG-23B, MiG-27 and Sukhoi Su-22 fighter- bombers. It also produced the Su-25 R-95Sh non- afterburning turbojet engines as well as the improved R-195 version designed for the Su-39 attack aircraft. Since the late 1980s, the AL-31F fourth-generation turbojet engines and their versions for the Su-27 and Su-30 fighters being produced both for the Russian Air Force and air forces of other countries. ¶5. UMPO stated that the two laser discs for reproducing sound/image and accessories are secured within the enclosed facility and are used as an optical measurement system for vibration diagnostics, which is consistent with their business. ¶6. Recommendations: Post recommends Ufa Engine- Building Production Association (UMPO),Ufa, Russia as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JKITSON/PLISTON) BURNS