Yakovlev
This page is about the aircraft design bureau and manufacturer. For other uses of the name, see Yakovlev (disambiguation).
A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix
Yak). It was formed in 1934 under designer
Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev as
OKB-115 (the design bureau has got its own production base at the facility №115), but the birthday is considered on 12 May 1927, the day of maiden flight of the
AIR-1 aircraft developed within the Department of Light Aircraft of GUAP (Head Agency of Aviation Industry) under the supervision of A.S.Yakovlev.
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 (, "bee", drone reconnaissance aircraft) (bee), and is perhaps best known for its highly successful line of World War II-era piston-engined fighter aircraft.
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. The German transliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and others as well, is
Jak.
See also: SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant*
AIR-1*
AIR-2*
AIR-3*
AIR-4*
AIR-5*
AIR-6 (liaison, general purpose)
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AIR-17*
UT-1 (AIR-14) (1936 - 1-seater trainer)
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UT-2 (AIR-10, Ya-20) (1935 - 2-seater trainer)
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Yak-1 (1940 - WWII fighter)
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Yak-2 (1940 - WWII bomber)
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Yak-3 (1943 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-1)
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Yak-4 (1940 - WWII bomber, improved Yak-2)
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Yak-5 (1941 - WWII fighter, prototype, improved Yak-1)
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Yak-6 (1942 - transport)
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Yak-7 (1942 - WWII 2-seater trainer & 1-seater fighter, improved Yak-1)
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Yak-8 (1944 - transport, improved Yak-6)
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Yak-9 (1944 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-1)
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Yak-10 (liaison)
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Yak-11 'Moose' (1948 - Trainer)
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Yak-12 'Creek' (liaison, general purpose)
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Yak-13 (improved Yak-10, prototype only)
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Yak-15 'Feather' (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
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Yak-17 'Feather' (1947 - fighter)
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Yak-18 'Max' (trainer)
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Yak-19*
Yak-23 'Flora' (fighter)
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Yak-24 'Horse' (transport helicopter)
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Yak-25 (1947 fighter prototype, designation reused)
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Yak-25 'Flashlight' (interceptor)
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Yak-25RV 'Mandrake' (reconnaissance)
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Yak-26 (tactical bomber)
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Yak-27 'Mangrove' (reconnaissance)
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Yak-28 'Brewer' (multi-role bomber)
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Yak-28P 'Firebar' (interceptor)
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Yak-28U 'Maestro' (trainer)
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Yak-30 (1948 interceptor prototype, designation reused)
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Yak-30 (trainer)
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Yak-32 (trainer, single-seat version of Yak-30)
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Yak-36 'Freehand' (demonstration VTOL jet)
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Yak-38 'Forger (the Soviet's only practical V/STOL shipborne fighter)
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Yak-40 'Codling' (commercial passenger)
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Yak-41 'Freestyle' (intended production version of Yak-141)
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Yak-42 'Clobber' (commercial passenger)
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Yak-43 (projected upgraded Yak-41)
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Yak-44 (carrier-capable airborne early warning)
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Yak-46 (failed push prop design)
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Yak-50 (1949 fighter prototype, designation reused)
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Yak-50 (aerobatic aircraft)
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Yak-52 (aerobatic and military trainer)
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Yak-54 (sport)
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Yak-55 (1982 - aerobatic)
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Yak-56*
Yak-112 (general purpose)
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Yak-130 (trainer)
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Yak-141 (claimed to be the world's first supersonic VTOL fighter)
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Pchela (
bee) (unmanned reconnaissance aircraft)
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Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev*
Saratov Aviation Plant*
List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
* A book by A.T.Stepanets.
Yak Fighters in WWII [ISBN 5-217-01192-0] (in Russian)
Степанец А.Т.
Истребители "Як" периода 'еликой 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
