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Development of Rzeszów started when in 1937 military industry was located in the city: Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze, producing aircraft engines, and a cannon factory – a branch of Hipolit Cegielski factory (see: Central Industrial Area).
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In April 1937 professor Wladyslaw Danielecki, the senior assistant from Ferroconcrete Professorship and Bridges Department at Lwow Technical University was offered a position of manager having the task to build the Aviation Engine Plant No 2 in Rzeszow.
The National Aviation Company from Warsaw was the investor and the Ministry of Military Affairs - the organizer. The excavations of Aviation Plant no. 2 in Rzeszów began few months later with ground work over 21 hectares near the Wislok river and 10 hectares for the safety zone. 60 million zlotys were allocated for constructions and for workshop equipment installation. Prominent representatives of the Government, including the creator of the Central Industrial Region, Vice Minister Eugienusz Kwiatkowski often visited the construction site.
The main shop was the first one to be built (current W53 shop) followed by the Storehouse and the Tooling Shop building. The tooling shop became functional in the second half of 1938. The same year began the tooling production and in 1939 the first production of components and aviation assemblies took place. In the short period between 1938 - 1939, the piston engines were built under the license of the "Walter Czech Company", adopted by the Polish aviation industry and marked as the PZInz "Major"as well as the engines under the license of the "Bristol" British company – marked as "PEGASUS XX".
On September 9, 1939 the factory was seized by Germans. The factory was divided between Flugmotorenwerke Reichshof GmbH (incorporated by the Ernest Henschel aviation company from Kassel) and Daimler Benz from Stuttgart (the company used the factory for the maintenance of aviation engine on the East Front). In 1941 the companies employed two thousand people and produced parts and overhauled military aircraft engines as DB-606A.
On August 2, 1944, the factory was taken over by the Soviet military aUTCority under the command of an engineer, Colonel Siergiej W. Worozbiejew. In July 1945 the control of the company was passed over to the Polish aUTCorities and for the next 4 years the company was named the National Aviation Factory Engine factory No.2, being under the control of the Central Management of Military Industry. In that period besides supplying the wide range of non-related aviation products such as: machine tools, cutting tools tractor parts and trucks, it performed mainly overhauls of either parts or whole Soviet engines.
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