Every Yakovlev Aircraft Ever Made

Video from the channel Engines of War about Yakovlev, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 8:59. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

A narrated catalogue of the aircraft from the Yakovlev design bureau, from the first wooden aircraft of the late 1920s to today's trainers, arranged by era.

The AIR series opens with the 1927 AIR-1, a two-seat wooden aircraft that Alexander Yakovlev designed while still a student. It was followed by aerobatic, liaison, racing and record-breaking models. Before the war came the UT-1 (1936) and UT-2 (1937) trainers, the I-19 fighter prototype and the BB-22, the origin of the Yak-2 and Yak-4 light bombers. During the Second World War the fighter family grew: the Yak-1 (1940), the Yak-7 (1942), derived from a trainer, and the Yak-1M, which led to the Yak-3 (1944). The video presents the Yak-9 (1942) as the most-produced Soviet fighter of the war.

In the jet era, the Yak-15 (1946) adapted the Yak-3's airframe and the Yak-17 (1947) added a tricycle landing gear. After prototypes such as the Yak-19, the Yak-23 (1947) was exported to Eastern Europe. These were followed by the twin-engine Yak-25 interceptor, its derivatives the Yak-26 and Yak-27, and the supersonic Yak-28 family. On vertical takeoff, the video covers the Yak-36 (1963) and the Yak-38 (1971), presented as the first combat aircraft of this type in regular naval service, as well as the supersonic Yak-141 prototype. In civil aviation it highlights the Yak-40 (1966) as the first regional jet. It closes with the Yak-130 and Yak-152 (2016) trainers.