Yakovlev
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Yakovlev
This article is about the Russian aircraft manufacturer. For people with the surname, see Yakovlev (surname).
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| Type | Division |
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| Industry | Aerospace and defense |
| Founded | 1934 |
| Key people | Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev |
| Products | Military aircraft |
| Parent | United Aircraft Corporation |
| Website | yak.ru |
The Yak Aircraft Corporation (formerly the A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC) is a Russian aircraft designer and manufacturer (design office prefix Yak). Its head office is in Aeroport District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow.[1]
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Overview
The bureau was formed in 1934 under designer Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev as OKB-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 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 Building Corporation.[2]
The firm is the designer of the Pchela (Russian: Пчела, "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 (Russian: Як) as a part of an aircraft name. The German transliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and others as well, is Jak.
Aircraft
- AVF-10 (1924 - glider)
- AVF-20 (1925 - glider)
- AIR-1/VVA-3 (1927 - biplane trainer)
- AIR-2 (1927 - biplane trainer)
- AIR-3 (1929 - general purpose)
- Ya-3 (1929 - high speed trainer developed from the AIR-2)
- AIR-4 (1930)
- Ya-6 (AIR-6) (1931 - liaison, general purpose)
- AIR-5 (1931)
- Ya-7 (AIR-7) (1932 - high speed)
- AIR-8 (1934)
- UT-2 "Mink" (AIR-20, Ya-20) (1935 - 2-seater trainer)
- AIR-9 (1935)
- AIR-10 (1935)
- UT-1 (AIR-14) (1936 - 1-seater trainer)
- AIR-11 (1936)
- AIR-12 (1936)
- AIR-16 (1937 - 4-seat trainer)
- AIR-18 (1937)
- AIR-15 (1938)
- UT-3/Ya-17 (AIR-17) (1938 - 3-seat crew trainer)
- Ya-21 (1938)
- Ya-19 (AIR-19) (1939)
- Ya-22/I-29 (1939 - multi role combat aircraft)
- Yak-1 (1939 - WWII fighter)
- VVP-6 (experimental VTOL transport and weapons platform)
- Yak-2 (1940 - WWII bomber)
- Yak-4/BB-22 (1940 - WWII bomber, improved Yak-2)
- Yak-7 "Mark" (1941 - WWII 2-seater trainer & 1-seater fighter, version of Yak-1)
- Yak-3/I-30/Ya-30 (1941 - WWII fighter prototype)
- Yak-5/I-28 (1941 - WWII trainer prototype, improved UT-2L)
- Yak-6/NBB (1942 - transport prototype)
- Yak-3 (1943 - WWII fighter)
- Yak-9 "Frank" (1943 - WWII fighter, improved Yak-7DI)
- Yak-8 "Crib" (1944 - transport, improved Yak-6)
- Yak-10 (1945 - liaison)
- Yak-13 (1945 - improved Yak-10, prototype only)
- Yak-11 "Moose" (1946 - trainer)
- Yak-15 (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
- Yak-18 "Max" (1946 - tandem two-seat military primary trainer)
- Yak-14 "Mare" (1947 - military transport glider)
- Yak-17 "Feather" and "Magnet" (1947 - jet fighter)
- Yak-19 (1947 - prototype jet fighter)
- Yak-25 (1947 - fighter prototype, designation reused)
- Yak-21 (1947 - trainer)
- Yak-EG (1947 - experimental helicopter)
- Yak-23 "Flora" (1948 - fighter)
- Yak-30 (1948 - interceptor prototype)
- Yak-100 (1948 - transport helicopter design)
- Yak-12 "Creek" (1949 - liaison, general purpose)
- Yak-16 "Cork" (1949 - civilian transport)
- Yak-50 (1949 - fighter prototype, designation reused)
- Yak-20 (1949 - trainer)
- Yak-1000 (1951 - high-speed experimental aircraft)
- Yak-25 "Flashlight" (1952 - interceptor)
- Yak-24 "Horse" (1952 - transport helicopter)
- Yak-200 (1953 - multi-engined trainer)
- Yak-210 (1953 - multi-engined navigator trainer developed from the Yak-200)
- Yak-140 (1954) (1954 - light-weight experimental fighter)
- Yak-26 "Flashlight" (1955 - tactical bomber)
- Yak-140 (1955 - experimental fighter aircraft)
- Yak-27 "Flashlight-" and "Mangrove" (1958 - reconnaissance)
- Yak-28 "Brewer" (1958 - multi-role bomber)
- Yak-28P "Firebar" (1961 - long-range interceptor version of the Yak-28)
- Yak-28U "Maestro" (1962 - trainer version of the Yak-28)
- Yak-25RV "Mandrake" (1959 - high-altitude reconnaissance)
- Yak-32 "Mantis" (1960 - trainer, single-seat version of Yak-30)
- Yak-33 (early 1960s - V/STOL fighter, bomber, reconnaissance aircraft project)
- Yak-60 (late 1960s - tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design)
- Yak-30 "Magnum" (1960 - trainer prototype, designation reused)
- Yak-40 "Codling" (1966 - commercial passenger)
- Yak-36 "Freehand" (1967 - VTOL demonstration aircraft)
- Yak-18T (1967 - 4 seat aerobatic trainer)
- Yak-38 "Forger" (1971 - V/STOL shipborne fighter)
- Yak-45 (1973 - failed air superiority fighter design)
- Yak-52 (1974 - aerobatic and military trainer)
- Yak-50 (1975 - aerobatic aircraft)
- Yak-53 (1975 - aerobatic trainer, single-seat version of Yak-52)
- Yak-41 "Freestyle" (1975 - early name for Yak-141 VTOL fighter)
- Yak-42 "Clobber" (1977 - commercial passenger)
- Yak-44 (1980s - carrier-capable airborne early warning)
- Yak-55 (1981 - aerobatic)
- Yak-43 (1983 - projected replacement for VTOL Yak-141 fighter)
- Yak-141 "Freestyle" (1989 - prototype supersonic VTOL fighter)
- Yak-48 (1989 - proposed commercial passenger)
- Yak-46 (1990s - failed push prop design developed from the Yak-42)
- Yakovlev Pchela (1990s - unmanned reconnaissance aircraft)
- Yak-56 (1990 - proposed two-seat version of the Yak-55M)
- Yak-130 (1992 - trainer)
- Yak-77 (1992 - proposed twin-engine business, regional commuter airliner)
- Yak-54 (1993 - aerobatic trainer developed from the Yak-55M)
- Yak-112 (1993 - general purpose)
- Yak-58 (1994 - shrouded piston monoplane)
- Gulfstream G200 (1997 - business jet)
- Irkut MS-21 (proposed short- and medium-range airliner)
See also
- Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
- Saratov Aviation Plant
- List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
- SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant
References
- ^ Home page. Yakovlev. Retrieved on 30 August 2011. "125315 Russia, Moscow, Leningradskiy prospect, 68" Address in Russian: "125315 Россия, Москва, Ленинградский проспект, 68"
- ^ "Russian Aircraft Industry Seeks Revival Through Merger." The New York Times. February 22, 2006.
- 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
- http://www.yak.ru click on ENG for English.
- http://www.yak-54.com/ Yakovlev Aircraft of USA.
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