Yakovlev OKB

For other uses, see Yakovlev OKB (disambiguation).

A.S. Yakovlev Design Bureau JSC
Yakolev Design Bureau logo
Type	Joint stock company
Founded	1934
Headquarters
Key people	Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev
Industry	Aerospace and defense
Products	Military aircraft
Website	Yakolev

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 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.

The firm is the designer of the Pchela (Template:Lang-ru, "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 (Template:Lang-ru) as a part of aircraft name. The German transliteration, often used by the Russians, Poles, and others as well, is Jak.

Yak Aircraft

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Yak-11 of Polish Air Force.

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Yak-130 trainer 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, version of 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-14 (military transport glider)
• Yak-15 (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
• Yak-16
• Yak-17 (1947 - fighter)
• Yak-18 (trainer)
• Yak-18T (4 seat aerobatic trainer)
• Yak-19
• Yak-23 (fighter)
• Yak-24 (transport helicopter)
• Yak-25 (1947 fighter prototype, designation reused)
• Yak-25 (interceptor)
• Yak-25RV (reconnaissance)
• Yak-26 (tactical bomber)
• Yak-27 (reconnaissance)
• Yak-28 (multi-role bomber)
• Yak-28P (interceptor)
• Yak-28U (trainer)
• Yak-30 (1948 interceptor prototype)
• Yak-30 (trainer, designation reused)
• Yak-32 (trainer, single-seat version of Yak-30)
• Yak-36 (demonstration VTOL jet)
• Yak-38 (the Soviet's only practical V/STOL shipborne fighter)
• 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-48 (proposed commercial passenger)
• 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 (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.

Yakovlev aircraft

Fighters: Yak-1 · Yak-3 · Yak-7 · Yak-9 · Yak-15 · Yak-17 · Yak-23 · Yak-25 (II) · Yak-28 · Yak-38

Bombers: Yak-2 · Yak-4 · Yak-28 - Reconnaissance: Yak-25 · Yak-27 · Pchela

Transports: Yak-6 · Yak-8 · Yak-10 · Yak-12 · Yak-14 · Yak-40 · Yak-42 · Yak-112 - Helicopters: Yak-24

Trainers: UT-1 · UT-2 · Yak-7 · Yak-11 · Yak-17 · Yak-18 · Yak-28 · Yak-30 (II) · Yak-32 · Yak-50 (II) · Yak-52 · Yak-54 · Yak-55 · Yak-130

Experimental: Yak-5 · Yak-13 · Yak-19 · Yak-25 (I) · Yak-26 · Yak-30 (I) · Yak-36 · Yak-41 · Yak-43 · Yak-44 · Yak-46 · Yak-50 (I)

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