Yakovlev
The Yakovlev - OKB ( OKB -115) in Moscow was a Soviet manufacturers of aircraft and helicopters . It was founded in 1934 by Alexander Sergejewitsch Jakowlew . In 1992 the office was privatized and transferred to the Yak Aviation Company . Since the end of 2006 Jakowlew has been part of the newly founded Russian aviation consortium OAK .
history
In the 1930s, the focus of the office was on the construction of sport and training aircraft. The two-seat UT-2 was with 7243 units the most built aircraft of OKB Jakowlew at this time. During World War II , Jakowlew developed the Jak-1 to Jak-9 series of fighter planes , several thousand of which were produced. After the end of the war, Jakowlew built the first series turbine fighter in the Soviet Union, the Jak-15, alongside the MiG-9 . During the Cold War , the design office specialized both in interceptor aircraft (for example Jak-25 ) and also in training and sports aircraft ( Jak-18 ).
Aircraft types
- Yakovlev UT-1 trainer aircraft
- Yakovlev UT-2 trainer aircraft
- Yakovlev Ja-1 Avietka
- Yakovlev Yes-2
- Yakovlev Ja-3 Pionerskaya Pravda
- Yakovlev Yes-4
- Yakovlev Yes-6
- Yakovlev Yes-7
- Yakovlev Jak-1 (1941) fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-2 reconnaissance aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-3 (1944) fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-4 bomb and reconnaissance aircraft
- Jakowlew Jak-6 multipurpose transporter and night bomb plane
- Yakovlev Yak-7 fighter plane
- Jakowlew Jak-9 (1943) fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-10 liaison aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-11 school fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-12 small multipurpose aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-13 liaison aircraft
- Jakowlew Jak-14 glider
- Yakovlev Yak-15 fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-16 airliner
- Yakovlev Yak-17 fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-18 trainer aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-19 fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-20 trainer aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-23 fighter plane
- Yakovlev Yak-24 helicopter 1953
- Yakovlev Yak-25 interceptor
- Yakovlev Yak-26
- Yakovlev Yak-27 multipurpose fighter
- Jakowlew Jak-28 multipurpose fighter
- Jakowlew Jak-30 front fighter / jet trainer
- Yakovlev Yak-32
- Jakowlew Jak-36 whiz kid
- Yakovlev Yak-38 whiz kid
- Yakovlev Yak-40 airliner
- Jakowlew Jak-41 fighter / vertical takeoff
- Yakovlev Yak-42 airliner
- Jakowlew Jak-44 early warning aircraft (project)
- Jakowlew Jak-50 sport aircraft for aerobatics
- Yakovlev Yak-52 trainer aircraft
- Jakowlew Jak-54 sport aircraft for aerobatics
- Jakowlew Jak-55 sport aircraft for aerobatics
- Yakovlev Yak-58
- Yakovlev Yak-112 small aircraft
- Yakovlev Yak-130 jet trainer
- Jakowlew Jak-141 fighter / vertical takeoff
- Jakowlew Jak-142 Further development of the Jak-42
- Jakowlew Jak-152 trainer aircraft (under development)
Helicopter types
- Yakovlev Yak-24
- Jakowlew EG , first flight in 1947
- Jakowlew Jak-100 (first flight 1948)
Unmanned aircraft
- Jakowlew Ptschela (Bee)
Notation
Two different ways of writing the aircraft types are common: "Jak" and "Yak". Based on the direct transcription of the Cyrillic alphabet into the German language, the translation from “Як” to “Jak” is correct. “Yak”, on the other hand, corresponds to the transcription into English.
See also
literature
- Wilfried Bergholz: Jakowlew . Since 1927. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-04024-3 .
- Wilfried Bergholz: Russia's great aircraft manufacturer. Jakowlew, Mikojan / Gurewitsch, Suchoj . The complete type book. Aviatic, Oberhaching 2002, ISBN 3-925505-73-3 .
Web links
- Yakovlev Design Bureau website
- Yakovlev aircraft in the Aviation Museum
- Info page about Yakovlev
- Yakovlev Piston Trainers & Stunters. www.airvectors.net, accessed April 4, 2020 (English).