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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
OKB

OKB is a transliteration of the Russian language acronym for "??????? ??????????????? ????" - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau....
-115 (the design bureau has 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.






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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
OKB

OKB is a transliteration of the Russian language acronym for "??????? ??????????????? ????" - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau....
-115 (the design bureau has 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
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 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
Smolensk Aviation Plant Joint Stock Company

The Smolensk Aviation Plant is a Russian aircraft production and servicing company. Founded in 1926, since 1993 it has been a 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
Mikoyan

Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG, or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan or Mikoyan-i-Gurevich Design Bureau , it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft....
, Ilyushin
Ilyushin

Ilyushin , or Ilyushin Design Bureau is a Russian design bureau and aircraft manufacturer , founded by Sergey Ilyushin. It began operations on January 13, 1933, by order of the People's Commissar of the Heavy Industry of the USSR and the Head of the Main Department of Aviation Industry, P.I.Baranov....
, Irkut, Sukhoi
Sukhoi

Sukhoi is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer famous for its fighter aircraft. Founded by Pavel Sukhoi in 1939 as the Sukhoi Design Bureau , it is currently known as Sukhoi Corporation....
 and Tupolev
Tupolev

Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defence company, headquartered in Moscow. Officially known as Public Stock Company Tupolev, it is the successor of the famed Tupolev OKB or Tupolev Design Bureau headed by the renowned Soviet aerospace engineer Andrei Tupolev....
 as a new company named United Aircraft Building Corporation.

The firm is the designer of the Pchela ("bee") drone reconnaissance aircraft 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 as a part of an aircraft name. The German transliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and others as well, is Jak.

Aircraft

Jak 11 Rb
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  • AIR-1
  • AIR-2
  • AIR-3
  • AIR-4
  • AIR-5
  • AIR-6 (liaison, general purpose)
  • AIR-17
  • UT-1
    Yakovlev UT-1

    The Yakovlev UT-1 was a single-seater trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until the late 1940s....
     (AIR-14) (1936 - 1-seater trainer)
  • UT-2
    Yakovlev UT-2

    The Yakovlev UT-2 was a trainer aircraft used by the VVS from 1937 in aviation until the 1950s. It was the standard Soviet trainer during World War II....
     (AIR-10, Ya-20) (1935 - 2-seater trainer)
  • Yak-1
    Yakovlev Yak-1

    The Yakovlev Yak-1 was a World War II Soviet Union fighter aircraft and the first among the war's many successful Yakovlev fighters....
     (1940 - WWII fighter)
  • Yak-2
    Yakovlev Yak-2

    The Yakovlev Yak-2 was a short range Soviet bomber/reconnaissance aircraft.It was the precursor of the Yakovlev Yak-4, which is also known as No22, Ya-22, and BB-22....
     (1940 - WWII bomber)
  • Yak-3
    Yakovlev Yak-3

    The Yakovlev Yak-3 was a World War II Soviet fighter aircraft regarded as one of the best fighters of the war. It was one of the smallest and lightest major combat fighters fielded by any combatant during the war, and its high power-to-weight ratio gave it excellent performance....
     (1943 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-1)
  • Yak-4
    Yakovlev Yak-4

    The Yakovlev Yak-4 The Yak-4 used more powerful Piston engine than its predecessors. The gunner/bomber position right behind pilot's turret was made non-retractable....
     (1940 - WWII bomber, improved Yak-2)
  • Yak-5
    Yakovlev Yak-1

    The Yakovlev Yak-1 was a World War II Soviet Union fighter aircraft and the first among the war's many successful Yakovlev fighters....
     (1941 - WWII fighter, prototype, improved Yak-1)
  • Yak-6
    Yakovlev Yak-6

    The Yakovlev Yak-6 was a Soviet Union twin engined utility aircraft, developed and built during World War II. It was used as a short range light night bomber and a light transport....
     (1942 - transport)
  • Yak-7
    Yakovlev Yak-7

    The Soviet Union Yakovlev Yak-7 was developed from the earlier Yakovlev Yak-1 Fighter aircraft, initially as a Trainer but converted into a "heavy" fighter....
     (1942 - WWII 2-seater trainer & 1-seater fighter, version of Yak-1)
  • Yak-8 (1944 - transport, improved Yak-6)
  • Yak-9
    Yakovlev Yak-9

    The Yakovlev Yak-9 was a single-Piston engine fighter aircraft used by the Soviet Union in World War II and after. It was the most numerous Soviet fighter of the war and remained in production from 1942 to 1948, with 16,769 built....
     (1944 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-7)
  • Yak-10 (liaison)
  • Yak-11
    Yakovlev Yak-11

    The Yakovlev Yak-11 was a trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force and other Soviet-influenced air forces from 1947 in aviation until 1962 in aviation....
     (1948 - Trainer)
  • Yak-12
    Yakovlev Yak-12

    The Yakovlev Yak-12 is a light multirole STOL aircraft used by the VVS, Soviet civilian aviation and other countries from 1947 in aviation onwards....
     (1947 - liaison, general purpose)
  • Yak-13 (improved Yak-10, prototype only)
  • Yak-14
    Yakovlev Yak-14

    The Yakovlev Yak-14 was a transport military glider produced in the USSR from 1948. USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 24", NATO reporting name "Mare"....
     (1948 - military transport glider)
  • Yak-15
    Yakovlev Yak-15

    The Yakovlev Yak-15 was an early Soviet Union Jet engine Fighter aircraft, and the lightest operational jet fighter ever built. It retained the wings, Tailwheel undercarriage, rear fuselage, and Empennage of the all-metal piston-engined Yakovlev Yak-3....
     (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
  • Yak-16
    Yakovlev Yak-16

    The Yakovlev Yak-16, , was a Soviet Union civil transport aircraft that first flew in 1948 in aviation.A small civil transport aircraft built in limited numbers, it closely resembled the Lisunov Li-2 , but was smaller and simpler....
     (1947 - civilian transport)
  • Yak-17
    Yakovlev Yak-17

    The Yakovlev Yak-17 , was an early Soviet Union jet engine Fighter aircraft, developed from the Yakovlev Yak-15.Reporting codenames were as follows:-...
     (1947 - fighter)
  • Yak-18
    Yakovlev Yak-18

    The Yakovlev Yak-18 was a Soviet Union tandem two-seat military primary trainer aircraft. Originally powered by one 160 hp Shvetsov M-11FR-1 Radial engine, it entered service in 1946 in aviation....
     (1946 - tandem two-seat military primary trainer)
  • Yak-18T
    Yakovlev Yak-18T

    The Yakovlev Yak-18T trainer is a four-place, fully aerobatic utility aircraft. Introduced to train Aeroflot pilots, it has recently gained some popularity as a sportplane in both the East and the West....
     (1970s - 4 seat aerobatic trainer)
  • Yak-19
    Yakovlev Yak-19

    The Yakovlev Yak-19 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft built in 1947. The first Yakovlev jet fighter to move away from the Pod and Boom lay-out, the Yak-19 was also Yakovlev's first all-metal fighter....
     (1947 - fighter)
  • Yak-23
    Yakovlev Yak-23

    The Yakovlev Yak-23 was a jet engine fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, used in early 1950s. ...
     (1947 - fighter)
  • Yak-EG
    Yakovlev EG

    The Yakovlev EG , also commonly known as the Yak-M11FR-1 and Sh , was an experimental aircraft with coaxial rotors. The prototype was first flown by V.V....
     (1947 - experimental helicopter)
  • Yak-24
    Yakovlev Yak-24

    The Yakovlev Yak-24 was a twin engine, tandem rotor transport helicopter developed in the Soviet Union....
     (1952 - transport helicopter)
  • Yak-25
    Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947)

    The Yakovlev Yak-25 was a Soviet military aircraft, an early turbojet-powered interceptor aircraft designed by the Yakovlev OKB. The designation was later reused for a Yakovlev Yak-25....
     (1947 - fighter prototype, designation reused)
  • Yak-25
    Yakovlev Yak-25

    The Yakovlev Yak-25 was a swept wing, turbojet-powered interceptor aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Soviet Union....
     (1952 - interceptor)
  • Yak-25RV
    Yakovlev Yak-25

    The Yakovlev Yak-25 was a swept wing, turbojet-powered interceptor aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft used by the Soviet Union....
     (1950s - reconnaissance)
  • Yak-26
    Yakovlev Yak-26

    The Yakovlev Yak-26 was a tactical supersonic bomber aircraft version of the Soviet Union Yakovlev Yak-27 developed in 1956 in aviation.The Yak-26 was developed from the Yakovlev Yak-25, along with the Yakovlev Yak-27 family of interceptor fighter and reconnaissance aircraft....
     (1956 - tactical bomber)
  • Yak-27
    Yakovlev Yak-27

    The Yakovlev Yak-27 was a family of supersonic aircraft,, developed in 1958 in aviation from the Yak-121 prototype, including the Yak-27R,, tactical reconnaissance aircraft....
     (1958 - reconnaissance)
  • Yak-28
    Yakovlev Yak-28

    The Yakovlev Design Bureau Yak-28 was a swept wing, turbojet-powered combat aircraft used by the Soviet Union. Produced initially as a bomber aircraft, it was also manufactured in reconnaissance aircraft, electronic warfare, interceptor aircraft, and trainer aircraft versions, known by the NATO reporting names Brewer, Firebar, and...
     (1958 - multi-role bomber)
  • Yak-28P
    Yakovlev Yak-28

    The Yakovlev Design Bureau Yak-28 was a swept wing, turbojet-powered combat aircraft used by the Soviet Union. Produced initially as a bomber aircraft, it was also manufactured in reconnaissance aircraft, electronic warfare, interceptor aircraft, and trainer aircraft versions, known by the NATO reporting names Brewer, Firebar, and...
     (1965-66 - interceptor)
  • Yak-28U
    Yakovlev Yak-28

    The Yakovlev Design Bureau Yak-28 was a swept wing, turbojet-powered combat aircraft used by the Soviet Union. Produced initially as a bomber aircraft, it was also manufactured in reconnaissance aircraft, electronic warfare, interceptor aircraft, and trainer aircraft versions, known by the NATO reporting names Brewer, Firebar, and...
     (trainer)
  • Yak-30
    Yakovlev Yak-30 (1948)

    This article is about the interceptor from the 1940s. For the trainer from the 1960s of the same name, see Yakovlev Yak-30 The Yakovlev Yak-30 was a Soviet interceptor from the 1940s....
     (1948 - interceptor prototype)
  • Yak-30 (1960 - trainer, designation reused)
  • Yak-32 (trainer, single-seat version of Yak-30)
  • Yak-33
    Yakovlev Yak-33

    The Yakovlev Yak-33 was a vertical take-off and landing supersonic multi-purpose aircraft family, studied in the early 1960's, with variants of a basic design used to fulfil different roles, in a similar fashion to the Yak-25, Yak-27, Yak-28 family....
     (1960s - V/STOL fighter, bomber, reconnaissance aircraft project)
  • Yak-36
    Yakovlev Yak-36

    The Yakovlev Yak-36 was a Soviet Union technology demonstrator for a VTOL multi-role combat aircraft.The aircraft had vectored thrust engines....
     (1963 - VTOL demonstration aircraft)
  • Yak-38
    Yakovlev Yak-38

    The Yakovlev Yak-38 was Soviet Naval Aviation's first and only operational VTOL multi-role combat aircraft....
     (1971 - V/STOL shipborne fighter)
  • Yak-40
    Yakovlev Yak-40

    File:Lineup of Yak-40 at Zhulyany Airport.jpegThe Yakovlev Yak-40 is a small, trijet airliner that is often called the first regional jet transport aircraft....
     (1968 - commercial passenger)
  • Yak-41
    Yakovlev Yak-141

    The Yakovlev Yak-141 was a supersonic VTOL fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union....
     (intended production version of Yak-141)
  • Yak-42
    Yakovlev Yak-42

    The Trijet Yakovlev Yak-42 was designed as a replacement for the twin engined Tupolev Tu-134 Jet aircraft as a mid-range passenger jet. The Yak-42 was also the first airliner to be produced in the Soviet Union to be powered by modern high-bypass turbofan engines....
     (1980 - commercial passenger)
  • Yak-43 (projected upgraded Yak-41)
  • Yak-44
    Yakovlev Yak-44

    The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning aircraft, resembling the United States Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, and intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk supercarriers....
     (1980s - carrier-capable airborne early warning)
  • Yak-46
    Yakovlev Yak-46

    The Yakovlev Yak-46 was a suggested airplane design with two contra-rotating propellers on the propfan located at the rear, just like the McDonnell Douglas MD-94X. Though proposed in the 1990s, production of the Yak-46 never commenced....
     (1990s - failed push prop design)
  • Yak-48
    Yakovlev Yak-48

    The Yakovlev Yak-48 is a twin-engined regional airliner currently under development by Yakovlev as a supplement for the Yakovlev Yak-40 currently in production....
     (1990s - proposed commercial passenger)
  • Yak-50
    Yakovlev Yak-50 (1949)

    Yakovlev Yak-50 was an early turbojet interceptor aircraft designed by the Yakovlev OKB in USSR. The Yakovlev Yak-50 for a propeller-driven aerobatic and trainer aircraft....
     (1949 - fighter prototype, designation reused)
  • Yak-50
    Yakovlev Yak-50 (1975)

    The single-seat Yakovlev Yak-50 aerobatic aircraft is an all-metal low-wing monoplane with retractable main wheels and exposed tail wheel. The control surfaces are fabric-covered to save weight....
     (1975 - aerobatic aircraft)
  • Yak-52
    Yakovlev Yak-52

    The Yakovlev Yak-52 is a Soviet primary trainer aircraft. It first flew in 1976 and is still being produced in Romania, by Aerostar SA, they gained manufacturing rights under agreement within COMECON socialist trade organisation now defunct....
     (1990s - aerobatic and military trainer)
  • Yak-53
    Yakovlev Yak-53

    The Yakovlev Yak-53 was a single seat aerobatic trainer aircraft produced in the USSR during 1981/2.It was derived from the Yak-52, differing in being a single seater....
     (1982 - aerobatic trainer)
  • Yak-54
    Yakovlev Yak-54

    The Yakovlev Yak-54 is a Russian acrobatic aircraft that first flew 23 December 1993.Part of a new generation acrobatic aircraft of Yakovlev design bureau, it breaks from a long line of aircraft started in 1937 with UT-2/AIR-10....
     (1993 - sport)
  • Yak-55
    Yakovlev Yak-55

    The Yakovlev Yak-55 and 55M is an Aerobatics aircraft designed by Slava Kondratiev. It has a thick mid-mounted symmetrical wing and is of a conventional monocoque all-metal construction....
     (1982 - aerobatic)
  • Yak-56
  • Yak-60
    Yakovlev Yak-60

    Yakovlev Yak-60 is a conjectural designation for a Soviet tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design of the late 1960s. This designation has been suggested by noted aviation author Bill Gunston based on the fact that an extant study model has the number "60" painted prominently on its side....
     (1960s - tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design)
  • Yak-100
    Yakovlev Yak-100

    The Yakovlev Yak-100 was a single engine, transport helicopter developed in the Soviet Union in 1948. This was the Yakovlev second helicopter....
     (1948 - transport hecopter design)
  • Yak-112
    Yakovlev Yak-112

    The Yakovlev Yak-112 is a Russian/Soviet civil utility aircraft that first flew in early 1990s. It is ready for serial production as of 2008 ....
     (1990s - general purpose)
  • Yak-130
    Yakovlev Yak-130

    The Yakovlev Yak-130 is a Russian Trainer that first flew 26 April 1996. Yakovlev and Alenia Aermacchi were pursuing joint development of the Yak-130....
     (1996 - trainer)
  • Yak-141
    Yakovlev Yak-141

    The Yakovlev Yak-141 was a supersonic VTOL fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union....
     (1987 - first supersonic VTOL fighter in the World)
  • Pchela
    Yakovlev Pchela

    The PCHELA-1T is a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle . Manufactured by the Russian Yakovlev Design Bureau, its primary use is for surveillance and observation in battlefield environments with downlinked video....
     (bee) (1990s unmanned reconnaissance aircraft)
  • MS-21
    MS-21

    The MS-21 is a proposed series of three twin-engine short-range and mid-range Russian jet airliners with a capacity of 150-210 passengers to be produced by companies of the United Aircraft Corporation group....


See also

  • Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev
  • Saratov Aviation Plant
    Saratov Aviation Plant

    The Saratov Aviation Plant is a Russian/Soviet aircraft production facility, located in Saratov, Russia.Aviation Plant ?292 of MAP , former plant of combine harvesters, aircraft production since 1925, converted to "aviation" in 1937....
  • List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
    List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS

    This list of the military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States includes experimental, prototype, and operational types regardless of era....


External links

  • click on ENG for English.
  • Yakovlev Aircraft of USA.