KIEV, July 16 – The Ukrainian aviation industry will be divided into an aircraft building company, a helicopter building company, an engine building company, and an avionics company, First Deputy Industry Minister Vitaliy Nemilostivy said in an interview with the Ekonomicheskiye Izvestia newspaper on Tuesday.

"The whole of the aviation industry is to be divided into four economic entities," he said.

He said that first each company would become a joint-stock company, and then each would take a stake in a holding company.