Yakovlev

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This page is about the aircraft design bureau and manufacturer. For other uses of the name, see Yakovlev (disambiguation).

During World War II Yakovlev designed and produced a famed line of fighter aircraft.

It was merged into the Yak Aviation Company with Smolensk Aviation Plant Joint Stock Company in March 1992, although the two companies continued to be operated separately. It later underwent privatization and became Yak Aircraft Corporation. The Russian government is planning to merge the holding company with Mikoyan, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi and Tupolev as a new company named United Aircraft Corporation."[Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger]." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.

The firm is the designer of the Pchela (Russian: , "bee", drone reconnaissance aircraft) (bee).

The name "Yakovlev" is used commonly in the West, but in Russia it is always abbreviated as Yak (Russian language: Як) as a part of aircraft name.

Yak-11 of Polish Air Force

Yak-12 of Polish Air Force

See also: SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant

Yak Aircraft

• AIR-1
• AIR-2
• AIR-3
• AIR-4
• AIR-5
• AIR-6 (liaison, general purpose)
• AIR-17
• UT-1 (AIR-14) (1936 - 1-seater trainer)
• UT-2 (AIR-10, Ya-20) (1935 - 2-seater trainer)
• Yak-1 (1940 - WWII fighter)
• Yak-2 (1940 - WWII bomber)
• Yak-3 (1943 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-1)
• Yak-4 (1940 - WWII bomber, improved Yak-2)
• Yak-5 (1941 - WWII fighter, prototype, improved Yak-1)
• Yak-6 (1942 - transport)
• Yak-7 (1942 - WWII 2-seater trainer & 1-seater fighter, improved Yak-1)
• Yak-8 (1944 - transport, improved Yak-6)
• Yak-9 (1944 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-1)
• Yak-10 (liaison)
• Yak-11 (1948 - Trainer)
• Yak-12 (liaison, general purpose)
• Yak-13 (improved Yak-10, prototype only)
• Yak-15 (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
• Yak-17 (1947 - fighter)
• Yak-18 (trainer)
• Yak-19
• Yak-23 (fighter)
• Yak-24 (transport helicopter)
• Yak-25 (1947 fighter prototype, designation reused)
• Yak-25 (interceptor)
• Yak-26 (tactical bomber)
• Yak-27 (reconnaissance)
• Yak-28 (multi-role bomber and interceptor)
• Yak-30 (1948 interceptor prototype, designation reused)
• Yak-30 (trainer)
• Yak-32 (trainer, single-seat version of Yak-30)
• Yak-36 (demonstration VTOL jet)
• Yak-38 (military-V/STOL jets)
• Yak-40 (commercial passenger)
• Yak-41 (intended production version of Yak-141)
• Yak-42 (commercial passenger)
• Yak-43 (projected upgraded Yak-41)
• Yak-44 (carrier-capable airborne early warning)
• Yak-46 (failed push prop design)
• Yak-50 (1949 fighter prototype, designation reused)
• Yak-50 (aerobatic aircraft)
• Yak-52 (aerobatic and military trainer)
• Yak-54 (sport)
• Yak-55 (1982 - aerobatic)
• Yak-56
• Yak-112 (general purpose)
• Yak-130 (advanced trainer)
• Yak-141 (claimed to be the world's first supersonic VTOL fighter)

• Pchela (bee) (unmanned reconnaissance aircraft)

See also

• Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev
• Saratov Aviation Plant
• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

References

• A book by A.T.Stepanets. Yak Fighters in WWII [ISBN 5-217-01192-0] (in Russian)

Степанец А.Т.
Истребители "Як" периода Великой Отечественной войны.
Справочник. - М.: Машиностроение, 1992. - 224 с.: ил:

External links

• yak aviation (http://www.yak-aviation.com/), a club of traders fliers.
• http://www.aviation.ru/Yak/
• http://www.yak.ru click on ENG for English
• http://www.yak-54.com/ Yakovlev Aircraft of USA

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