Every Yakovlev Aircraft Ever Made

Video from the channel Battlefield Scope USA🇺🇸 about Yakovlev, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 9:33. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

A narrated catalogue of more than sixty Yakovlev designs, from 1927 to the present, grouped by era. For many models it gives the year and the production figure.

The journey begins with the AIR series. Its first model, the 1927 AIR-1, was a two-seat biplane that Yakovlev built while he was still a student. Before the war, notable aircraft include the UT-1 (AIR-14, 1936), with over 1,000 units, and the UT-2 (1937), with about 7,000. For the Second World War, the video gives more than 8,700 Yak-1s, 4,848 Yak-3s and about 6,400 Yak-7s, plus 16,769 Yak-9s, the most-produced Soviet fighter. After the war came the Yak-11 trainer, with more than 3,800 units, and the Yak-12 utility aircraft.

At the start of the jet era are the Yak-15 (1946, about 280), the Yak-17 (about 430) and the Yak-23 (about 310), plus prototypes such as the swept-wing Yak-50, which lost out to the MiG-15. Next come the tandem-rotor Yak-24 helicopter, the Yak-25 interceptor (more than 600) and the supersonic Yak-28 family (about 1,180). On vertical takeoff, the video covers the Yak-36, the Yak-38 (about 230) and the Yak-141 prototype. In civil aviation it features the Yak-40 (more than 1,000) and the Yak-42 (about 185). It closes with the aerobatic Yak-52, Yak-54 and Yak-55, the Yak-130 and Yak-152 trainers and the MC-21, presented as the continuation of Yakovlev's civil legacy by the successor corporation.