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]

Overview[link]

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[link]

Yak-11 of Polish Air Force.

Yak-130 trainer aircraft

• AVF-10 (1924 - glider)
• AVF-20 (1925 - glider)
• AIR-1/VVA-3/Ya-1 (1927 - biplane trainer)
• AIR-2/Ya-2 (1928 - biplane trainer, improved AIR-1)
• AIR-3/Ya-3 (1929 - high speed monoplane trainer developed from the AIR-2)
• AIR-4/Ya-4 (1930 - improved AIR-3)
• AIR-5 (1931 - airliner)
• AIR-6/Ya-6 (1932 - airliner/air ambulance)
• AIR-7/Ya-7 (1932 - high speed trainer/record-setting)
• AIR-8 (1934 - liaison version of AIR-3)
• AIR-9 (1935 - trainer/record-setting)
• AIR-10/Ya-10 (1935 - prototype of UT-2)
• AIR-11 (1936 - general purpose, 3-seat version of AIR-10)
• AIR-12 (1936)
• AIR-16 (1936 - 4-seat version of AIR-10)
• UT-1 (AIR-14) (1937 - prototype of UT-1)
• UT-3/Ya-17 (AIR-17) (1937 - 3-seat crew trainer)
• AIR-18 (1937 - re-engined UT-1)
• UT-2 "Mink" (AIR-20, Ya-20) (1937 - 2-seater trainer)
• AIR-15 (1938)
• AIR-21/UT-21/Ya-21 (1938 - re-engined UT-1)
• Ya-19 (AIR-19) (1939)
• Ya-22/I-29 (1939 - multi role combat aircraft prototype)
• Yak-1 (1940 - WWII fighter)
• VVP-6 (experimental VTOL transport and weapons platform)
• Yak-2 (1940 - WWII bomber)
• Yak-5/I-28 (1940 - WWII fighter prototype)
• Yak-3/I-26U/I-30 (1941 - WWII fighter prototype)
• Yak-4/BB-22 (1941 - WWII bomber, improved Yak-2)
• Yak-7 "Mark" (1941 - WWII 2-seater trainer & 1-seater fighter)
• Yak-9 "Frank" (1942 - WWII fighter/bomber, improved Yak-7DI)
• Yak-3 (1943 - WWII fighter)
• Yak-6/NBB (1943 - military transport/night bomber)
• Yak-8 "Crib" (1944 - transport, improved Yak-6)
• Yak-10 "Crow" (1945 - liaison, commuter transport)
• Yak-13 (1945 - improved Yak-10, prototype only)
• Yak-11 "Moose" (1946 - trainer, developed from Yak-3)
• Yak-12 "Creek" (1946 - liaison, general purpose)
• Yak-15 "Feather" (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter, developed from Yak-3U)
• Yak-18 "Max" (1946 - tandem two-seat military primary trainer)
• Yak-EG (1947 - experimental helicopter)
• Yak-17 "Feather" and "Magnet" (1947 - jet fighter, development of Yak-17)
• Yak-19 (1947 - prototype jet fighter)
• Yak-21 (1947 - trainer)
• Yak-25 (1947 - fighter prototype, designation reused)
• Yak-14 "Mare" (1948 - military transport glider)
• Yak-16 "Cork" (1948 - civilian transport)
• Yak-23 "Flora" (1948 - fighter, development of Yak-15/Yak-17)
• Yak-30 (1948 - fighter prototype, development of Yak-25)
• Yak-100 (1948 - transport helicopter design)
• Yak-50 (1949 - fighter prototype, development of Yak-30, designation reused)
• Yak-20 (1950 - trainer)
• Yak-1000 (1951 - high-speed experimental aircraft)
• 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-25 "Flashlight" (1954 - interceptor)
• Yak-140 (1954) (1954 - light-weight experimental fighter)
• Yak-26 "Flashlight" (1955 - tactical bomber, developed from Yak-25)
• Yak-140 (1955 - experimental fighter aircraft)
• Yak-27 "Flashlight" and "Mangrove" (1958 - fighter/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-36 "Freehand" (1963 - VTOL demonstration aircraft)
• Yak-40 "Codling" (1966 - commercial passenger)
• Yak-18T (1967 - 4 seat aerobatic trainer)
• Yak-45 (1973 - failed air superiority fighter design)
• Yak-52 (1974 - aerobatic and military trainer)
• Yak-38 "Forger" (1975 - V/STOL shipborne fighter)
• 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, developed from Yak-40)
• 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-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-58 (1993 - light utility)
• Yak-77 (1993 - proposed twin-engine business, regional commuter airliner)
• Yak-112 (1993 - general purpose)
• Yak-54 (1994 - aerobatic trainer developed from the Yak-55M)
• Gulfstream G200 (1997 - business jet)
• Yak-48 (1998 - proposed commercial passenger)
• Irkut MS-21 (proposed short- and medium-range airliner)

See also[link]

	Russia portal
	Aviation portal

• Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
• Saratov Aviation Plant
• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
• SOKOL Aircraft Building Plant

References[link]

• 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[link]

• http://www.yak.ru click on ENG for English.
• http://www.yak-54.com/ Yakovlev Aircraft of USA.