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Yakovlev - the name of aircraft designed by Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev, the founder of the Yakovlev design bureau, or by Yakovlev Design Bureau. 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.

1 Yak 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, improved 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-15 (1946 - first successful Soviet jet fighter)
• Yak-17 (1947 - fighter)
• Yak-18
• Yak-23 (fighter)
• Yak-24 (transport helicopter)
• Yak-25 (interceptor)
• Yak-26 (tactical bomber)
• Yak-27 (reconnaissance)
• Yak-28 (multi-role bomber and interceptor)
• Yak-36The Yakovlev Yak-36 ( NATO reporting name: Freehand was a Soviet technology demonstrator for a VTOL multi-role combat aircraft. The plane had vectored thrust engines, similar to the Harrier. Two engines was mounted forward of and below the cockpit. The ex (demostration VTOL jet)
• Yak-38The Yakovlev Yak-38 ( NATO reporting name: Forger was Soviet Union's first and only operational VTOL multi-role combat aircraft. The prototype Yak-38 flew for the first time in 1971. It based on the technology demonstrator Yakovlev Yak-36. Sea trials aboa (military-V/STOL jets)
• Yak-40The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a small, three-engined regional transport aircraft. Built to replace the Lisunov Li-2 (a DC-3 variant) and the Ilyushin Il-14, its main design feature was ease of operation outside major airport service areas. It was equipped with a (commercial passenger)
• Yak-41
• Yak-42The three engined Yakovlev Yak-42 was designed as a replacement for the twin engined Tupolev Tu-134 jet. It fulfills a role similar to that of the Boeing 727 as a mid-range passenger jet. The Yak-42 was also the first airliner to be produced in the Soviet (commercial passenger)
• Yak-52The Yakovlev Yak-52 first flew in 1976 and is still being produced in Romania, by Aerostar. The Yak-52 was designed originally as an aerobatic trainer for students in the Soviet DOSSAF training organization. That organization trained both civilian sport p (aerobatic and military trainer)
• Yak-54 (sport)
• Yak-55 (1982 - aerobatic)
• Yak-56
• Yak-130 (advanced trainer)
• Yak-141The Yakovlev Yak-41 ( NATO reporting name Freestyle was a supersonic VTOL fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union that was abandoned before entering production. The program was initiated in 1975 as the Yak-141 a development of the Yak-38. The first convent (claimed to be the world's first supersonic VTOL fighter)

• Pchela (bumblebee) (unmanned reconnaisance aircraft)