Ikarus IK-2

Ikarus IK 2
Role	Fighter Type of aircraft
National origin	Yugoslavia
Manufacturer	Ikarus A.D.
Designer	Ljubomir Ilić and Kosta Sivčev
First flight	22 April 1935
Introduction	1935
Retired	1945
Primary users	Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia
Number built	12

The Ikarus IK-2 was a 1930s high-wing, single-seat, monoplane fighter aircraft of Yugoslav design built for the Royal Yugoslav Army Air Force. The IK-2 was designed by French-trained engineers Kosta Sivčev and Ljubomir Ilić, who saw the desirability of developing a home-grown aircraft industry. A gull-wing design, it was armed with a hub-firing autocannon and fuselage-mounted synchronised machine guns. Just 12 production models were built, as the aircraft was obsolescent at the time it was brought into service in 1935, and only eight were serviceable at the time of the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941. After the defeat of Yugoslavia, the remaining four aircraft were taken onto the strength of the air force of the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, but none survived the war.