Iosif Șilimon

Iosif Șilimon (22 July 1918 – 8 February 1981) was a Romanian aircraft designer.

Professional activity From the IS-2 glider in 1949 until 1981, Șilimon designed and built 32 types of gliders and four motor gliders. Of these, the IS-3D (156 units), IS-28B2 (359 units), IS-29-D2 (156 units) and 34 IS-28B-M2 motor gliders went into mass production. Beside the gliders that made up the passion of his life, he worked as a chief engineer and then technical director at the Ghimbav factory, designed and built hundreds of serial aircraft with classic engines and Alouette and Puma helicopters on a French license. He worked at IAR Brașov from 1941 to 1951 until the aviation section was abolished (starting in 1944, he was head of the cell assembly section); from 1951 to 1959 at URMV-3, the famous hangar 2 of the bomber flotilla in Brașov; from 1959 to 1968 at the Local Industry Enterprise in Ghimbav, aeronautical constructions section; from 1968, he worked at the new facilities of Aviation Construction Industry (ICA) in Ghimbav. He also taught at the Transilvania University of Brașov and wrote "Glider's Flight", an important piece of work for glider pilots (edited in 1971).

Gliders designed URMV-3 IS-2 URMV-3 IS-3 IIL IS-4 IIL IS-5 IIL IS-7 IIL IS-8 IIL IS-10 IIL IS-11 IIL IS-12 ICA IS-28 ICA IS-29 ICA IS-32